Theme Drupal via Zen theme & CSS Injector w/ image support via IMCE

We want to be able to, at least during development, allow an artist/designer/user to develop the theme CSS for a site as well as upload images for use with the CSS. Via a Zen sub theme with the CSS Injector and IMCE module we allow a designer or other user to theme a Drupal site without having other upload capabilities outside of Drupal. When the theming is done we wrap both the CSS from CSS injector and the images uploaded via IMCE into a final Zen sub theme.

The set up:

• Set up a new Zen sub theme
• Install and enable CSS Injector module Other >> CSS injector
• Install and enable IMCE module Other >> IMCE
• @ admin/user/roles add a new role: Site Editor
• @ admin/settings/imce
  • under Directory creation tool @ settings/imce/subdirectory create a css directory. Do NOT call it "css".
  • under Configuration profiles:
    • set upload sizes etc
    • edit “sample profile” rename it to "Site Editor Profile"
    • set the Directories to css, all options and NO subdirectories
  • under Role-profile assignments: Site Editor select Site Editor Profile
• @ admin/build/block
  • added a block: an HTML link to IMCE for use w/ CSS Injector
    
    
    >> CSS image browser Note: images for use with CSS are inside the ./imce_css/ directory relative to the css file & are addressed as css/image.jpg.
  • Role specific visibility settings: only Site Editor
  • Page specific visibility settings: only on admin/settings/css_injector
• @ admin/user/permissions Edit permissions for Site Editor
  • admin_menu module: access administration menu
  • css_injector module: administer css injection
  • node module: access content
  • system module: access administration page
  • system module: select different theme

After CSS styling is complete:

• integrate theme elements into the theme file
  • move the the entire from css directory into your theme directory
  • copy the css from the CSS Injector module into the theme style sheet
• disable CSS Injector module
• disable IMCE module (if not used elsewhere)
• remove Site Editor role from users

Notable Notes:

• Do not call your IMCE directories "css" or "html" as these are reserved names in the /sites/example-url/file directories. Not really documented, I found it by experience.