I am new to frameworks in general and Yii specifically. In looking at the file structure, themeing, widgets, etc.; It seems to me that the Yii really goes against the write once, use everywhere tenants of programming when it comes to CSS and views.
In the basic WebApp generation I see ‘bg.gif’ in at least 4 different places. Shouldn’t it be in only one?
With Themes, that gets multiplied. I was looking into using themes for changing a site for various holidays. Now I have to copy my layout pages to ALL of the themes.
I hope you see what I’m getting at, I’m not sure that I am explaining it right. Can any of you Yii gurus help a lowly newbie understand some of the background/reasoning/voodoo/etc of the design?