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Submitted by Bevan Rudge on April 29, 2008 - 4:33pm.
Have you ever wondered what a "themer" actually does? How are they different to a designer and a developer? In it's simplest sense a themere takes a flat static image, the design, provided by the designer, and a mostly-functional but ugly site, provided by a developer, and makes the ugly site look pretty like the designer wants it.
This timelapse by Matthew Buchanan of the theming of nzmusicmonth.co.nz sums up that process:
Timelapse CSS (II) from Matthew Buchanan on Vimeo.
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It is interesting to watch the unfolding of a theme in progress, but to me, the real mystery is in the seemingly dozens of files and lines of CSS that you juggle while making these changes to the page look so easy. I have watched over some themers' shoulders before, and am amazed at how you read what is essentially a foreign language, and tweak and re-tweak to get what you need out of it.
This is new to me, since in the many workplaces I have had in my life, I almost never encountered a job that I did not feel I could take on if I paid attention and gave it my best shot, but this one stumps me. Just watching themers (and engineers for that matter) work makes me feel like I am from another planet... or maybe YOU are!
The author of the timelapse explained how it was done and even released the javascript code he used to make it. Cheers Matt!
* http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/33504871
* http://www.cactuslab.com/projects/timelapse-css/timelapse-css.js