Radio Themes - Part 1
28 May 2002
Radio Themes – Part 1
I know enough about Radio to be dangerous only to myself. I don’t know enough about Radio to be dangerous to anyone else. However, I’ve had an idea about what I want to do with this tool for quite some time. I haven’t had a clue how to get started in that direction.
This post is an attempt to launch my efforts in the proper direction. The summary statement goes like this, ”I think that what I’m trying to envision is a different theme for Radio.” Earth shaking isn’t it?
What I mean is that no matter how good I become at editing, altering and embellishing the #hometemplate.txt or the #itemtemplate.txt files of this weblog, I’m simply changing minor things about the Transmitter theme that comes with Radio. What came to me like a bright flash in the night is the fact that every icon, every font, every placement of anything on every page is a result of something that is ”programmed” or ”scripted” into the Transmitter theme.
Trying to piece-work all the changes that I want for my own site is probably a far greater task than simply starting with a blank HTML page and beginning to do the layout and design work for the look that I want to wind up with. In other words, it may be easier to lay out a weblog home page with one of the popular page design tools and then begin to understand where all of Radio’s templates, macros, directives and pieces should be placed.
If any of the readers of this site have ”broken the code” and identified a specific sequence of steps that yields a brand new Radio theme, please let me know!
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