Eh, it's not too hard actually. I've been working on a blog for creating a similar theme...
Basically you define a layout template to use 1 col layout, but a bunch of them to give you a separate class applied to each portlet dropped into the row.
The theme that goes along with it is going to leverage basic CSS stuff to assign background images and leverage an opacity value to either be clear or faded.
For the drop areas, you just place your web content displays into the layout.
The rest is really all CSS magic.
Like I said, I've started a blog post that will have examples and (hopefully) a github project to go with it. Still in draft, probably not ready for a week or two
Basically you define a layout template to use 1 col layout, but a bunch of them to give you a separate class applied to each portlet dropped into the row.
The theme that goes along with it is going to leverage basic CSS stuff to assign background images and leverage an opacity value to either be clear or faded.
For the drop areas, you just place your web content displays into the layout.
The rest is really all CSS magic.
Like I said, I've started a blog post that will have examples and (hopefully) a github project to go with it. Still in draft, probably not ready for a week or two
