Recolorable Themes not working with Freehostia(3rd party host)
I have a site that I am working on that will be hosted by Freehostia. The problem I have is when I try to change the color scheme for the theme, the theme loses all of it's characteristics and the background is completely white. The default color schemes show up fine(Garland, Minelli, etc.). Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!!
Okay -- in that case, my next guess would be that the stylesheet isn't loading: either it's missing, or the style sheet reference is incorrect.
If you had made changes, my guess would be that there is an error near the top of the sheet somewhere, that was breaking the rest of the sheet.
I'm not familiar with that particular theme, by the way, so this is really just general troubleshooting guesses. In this case, if you see NO styles, it typically means the sheet isn't loading.
The reason for the suggestion to set CSS optimization on is that in some IE browsers, only the first thirty or so CSS include tags are actually loaded. So if you have lots of modules, you can sometimes have a situation where some of the style sheets never load. The optimization setting compiles all the style sheets into one file, so at least it all loads.
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From: greg [mailto:admin@techmaine.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:45 AM
To: todd@techmaine.com
Subject: TechMaine - Drupal User Group (DRUPALug) - Recolorable Themes not working with Freehostia(3rd party host)
Oh, one other thought: This is a reach, but does the theme's color scheme setting feature require some other module, like the themesetting api or something like that?
I would second Todd's questions....
The facility to affect colour schema in themes was new to Drupal 6. I
would look to the theme itself to see if perhaps they have mis-
implemented that facility. Maybe try re-uploading the theme from a
virgin unpack and see if it works in its out of the box state. Then
back track how that facility is carried out. There is a module called
color in the core set which says it allows users to change colors but
it isn't specific about what user means...is it the end-user or is it
the admin, they may be related in any case....I would start there
though and then read the actual tpl file(s) for the template to see if
there are hints there about incorporating a css file as a variable.....
kp
On Apr 1, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Todd wrote:
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Greg -- what Drupal version/theme, etc.? And, what browser/version/platform? Also, have you made any changes to the theme's stylesheets, or is this out of the box?
A couple of general suggestions, assuming you've done the usual things like dumping your browser cache:
(1) Try turning the theme off and then on again.
(2) In admin >> performance, try emptying the cache.
(3) In the same place, try turning "Optimize CSS" on. (Note: You have to turn it back off when you work on CSS.)
(4) See if it works in some other browser.
--Todd