ah beautiful. Unfortunately I can't use the page attribute bit because I need it to change the entire site's css whenever you input a certain name (because my color schemes would change all images to match, as well). Perhaps when I am a bit more familiar with PHP I'll make a CSS changer block for the end user.

BUT, your links gave me some fantastic ideas for other features on a page by page basis.

Thanks!

You can still use page attributes -- just put a <style> tag in your theme's header, and put the appropriate styles there instead of the css file (because in the theme template you can use PHP to output different CSS as appropriate).

Well, it would be nice to be able to do that, but I can't. First, in making themes as comprehensive as the ones I am planning, the CSS will run into thousands of lines. Of course I would minify the files, but they still need to be cached (by the browser) to make for good subsequent page load speeds. From what I see of the page attributes, the user would have to add the attribute to each page and select the color scheme. That obviously wouldn't work for a site with a huge number of pages, if all the user wanted to do was change the global site color scheme. Of course, I would also incorporate a parsed CSS file for fonts and what not, but they do need to be cached.

Ah yes, well if you plan on having literally thousands of lines of CSS and tons of pages, then you are correct that this won't be a sane approach.

Good luck with the site, sounds like a very interesting project!

-Jordan

lol thanks. And yes, literally thousands of lines of CSS. I never thought anyone would ever use that much CSS, until I saw a wordpress theme that was quite beautiful, so I checked out the CSS. It was over 1500 lines on just one of the includes. There were other CSS includes too. So I realized that to make the most comprehensive theme in the marketplace I would have to have a huge amount of CSS and a lot (a LOT) of custom jQuery.
Me and my brother are going to start by defining a "framework" for the rules and the custom functionality that will be standard across all our themes, and then the prices will be low, so hopefully it will equate into a winning combination, lol.

Also, I had a concern about the block auto including view.css files in the header. I know IE has a limit of around 34 css includes, so what happens when your site uses more than 34 different blocks with separate view.csss files? So we will be making and compiling view templates into a free block that replaces all view templates for the core blocks and allows their code to interact with some really beautiful jQuery, and also merge all their css into one file (main.css).