I just for the first time downloaded jquery and jquery-ui to use/learn last night.
I figured out how to get it working, and now I am playing around with the downloadable/customizable themes on themeroller…(nice tool).
A question about best way of maximizing the use of these tools:
I am integrating jquery/jqueryUI into an existing asp.net that I have already ‘themed’ with colors/fonts that I like using my own custom css, I used the ‘themeroller’ app to get the jquery UI elements to more or less match with my existing css color/font schemes.
The real question is, am I doing it backwards? Would I be better of designing my themes in themeroller, and then using that generated CSS for the ALL of my app? as opposed to using themeroller to mimic the css I already have for the non-jquery UI elements?
I could see that it would be nice to be able to use themeroller, download the CSS, and then base the non-jqueryUI CSS around the generated CSS, but I don’t want to try it if that is not a generally accepted approach that will end up causing me problems down the road.
What I typically do is generate a theme for jQuery using the ThemeRoller that uses the colours from my website’s CSS. I don’t use the ThemeRoller theme for my website though, I usually keep these 2 separate.