Nuke to Drupal Theme conversion: Prepare images

Now I will convert all the images into useable snippets. One requirement of mine is that I use PNG, because of itw power. Another requirement is that we use CSS everywhere, so images should be useable as background patterns etc.

Convert gif to png

I use the commandline tool gif2png To convert all image files at once. Using the following command will convert all Gifs into optimised png files.
$ find -name '*gif' -exec gif2png -pdOv {} \;

Reorganising the images

I created several directories to hold the new files: res/images/ (all the layout images) res/icons/ (all the categrory images and icons) res/logos/ (logos and titles) re/unused/ (items such as the image buttons)

Image only tabs

One requirement was to replace the images-buttons with HTML and CSS buttons, so I move all these image tabs into "unused". Later on we still need these to create sliding-doors tabs, but more about that later.
Woodcut from Doré. Purely illustrative
Doré Woodcut. Its only function is to make the layout look better. And these images are really nice themselves

About the author: Bèr Kessels is an experienced webdeveloper with a great passion for technology and Open Source. A golden combination to implement that technology in a good and efficient way. Follow @berkes on Mastodon. Or read more about Bèr.