Official or Unofficial documentation on manager skinning?

I’m a graphic designer, but haven’t had much experience with creating UI’s. Is there documentation or tutorials for 0.9.6 or 0.9.7, either by someone in the community or not, that explains this process. I’m just not sure how I should design a skin (ie. as a whole with slices or as individual components, etc..). I would like to play around with this a bit, so if anyone could provide some advice on skinning the manager that would be great. I did a search in the forums for "create manager skin" and "create skin", but didn’t see anything. Thanks.

Kevin

The wiki has something about customizing the manager homepage, but no real comprehensive tutorial, and I don’t know of any doc about this... A good way to get started is browse through the existing MODx admin themes (in [tt]manager/media/style[/tt]).

Anyone with css and html knowledge, and MODx savvy should have no trouble picking up and creating their own theme...

There ıs absolutely no documentation on manager skinning, the best way of getting familiar with the manager styling is by browsing the existing themes as David said, i suggest you start with the MODxGreen theme as it is a grandfather of MODxlight and yet the light version has so many uncovered id’s or not transferred/skinned/addressed correctly from the green version to the light one.

Alright... thanks for the tips there guys. I’ll play around with it and I’m sure I’ll get it. Thanks again.

Quote from: MotSmart at Feb 07, 2008, 08:15 PM

i suggest you start with the MODxGreen theme as it is a grandfather of MODxlight and yet the light version has so many uncovered id’s or not transferred/skinned/addressed correctly from the green version to the light one.

Most of the omissions are intentional as the Cascade (the "C" in CSS) should take care of it or they’re not needed. The MODx light theme is considerably lighter and I would consider a better starting point. If there are errors with Light, it’d be tremendously appreciated to have them filed in the bugtracker.

There are a few gotchas that I discovered when I made my MODxBleu manager theme, with is simply a color change from the MODxLight template. I was in something of a hurry and didn’t make notes as I went along, so of course I’d have to do it all over again to document it properly. That’s the problem, for all that it has such a relatively small following, we all seem more than busy enough actually using it!

Sure Ryan, i too ignored all of the irrelevancy in styles or ommited parts and just tried to get the RTL manager theme’s style done, soon i’ll be on some corrections and ill make them filed, Susan i think you wanted to mention the style color mismatch of mail inbox page on new mail arrivals?
check this: http://modxcms.com/bugs/task/1011