Advice Needed; Major Upgrade: Drupal 5.x to 6.x and Publisher 5.x to 6.x

Also, we really like your themes.

Do you give discounts, if we buy more than one?

Thanks.

After checking out both methods I had described in my previous post, we have decided to go with using our existing site and upgrading it first to from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.

I report that the upgrade was successful (although obviously publisher did not work because it is meant to work with drupal 5).

So, after that we went through the process of upgrading to publisher 6. This part has been ugly. Not necessarily because of Publisher (its a great theme), but because some of our pages had translations (english/chinese) and that is probably going to get ugly.

On that note, please disregard my previous post.

Now we would like your advice on how to best go about upgrading from publisher 5 to publisher 6, in terms of the css. We printed out the instructions and followed them to a T, but it looks like the css in publisher 6 is different (much cleaner and easy to read for us Noobs) then the old css.

Any help/advice would be much appreciated.

Best

Hi,
We'd recommend re-styling or carrying over any styles you've made for your previous version. Since the Publisher 6 (latest version) is much cleaner than the Publisher 5 in terms of CSS, your best bet would be to identify the changes you've made in the previous version you had, then use a tool like Firebug to inspect the CSS of the D6 Publisher version once you have everything up and running. Then, you can use the Firebug tool to see if the same CSS classes are within the areas you need to apply the re-styling to -- such as the header, footer, body classes.

I'd heavily recommend Firebug since it's one of the best Firefox add-ons for identifying CSS within any website.

And you're right, upgrading Drupal 5 to 6 with translations can be a pain, especially if you couple that with a lot of additional contributed module.