php-nuke, building the theme

For our most beloved and endering site, we are moving from a static system to a more interactive system. This is the site we lovingly brought up from horrific, structureless HTML a few years back, to some templated PHP a few years back. Now it is time to grow some more.

And we’ve chosen (for now, at least) to go with PHP-Nuke. We’ve been told by our friend ‘neka that Nuke is the shit for a while. So we are going for it.

First thing out the box (so to speak), is that we need to customize the theme, so that it looks all nice and purdy. Turns out that it is no small task in Nuke. (thanks, neka…). So here we go. You can download themes at NukeThemes, and then, I guess, customize as you go. That is certainly something we have considered. We also thought about reading through the standard PHP-Nuke docs on managing themes. We are certain we shall be trollign those soon enough. But we also found a nice freebie “auto-generator” that we are more than willing to try, called AutoTheme. Spidean, the comapny that makes AutoTheme, also has some downloadable themes and other nice stuff for free.

Another task we will soon have to conquor is futzing the with the modules of nuke. So we were pleased to find Lenon.com’s Module Maker. They also have a fair set of other nuke tools we might be using in the future.