Posted by rpeters on December 15, 2010 at 5:05pm
I love Drupal, but some of its themes need work, but then again that has not been its focus. Its focus has been great code, which I love! There are wordpress sites I was thinking about converting, but wanted to know if someone else has already done them. Here they are: LightWord, Mystique, Easel, Sliding Door, Station, Antisnews, StudioPress, Glossy Stylo, MT dark
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Drupal theming is theming and a lot of for the design is css and then the layout/architecture through template. I used to work a lot with the framework theme which was a pretty basic simple theme that was easy to add my css code to -- now I use 960 hydrogen most of the time
One of the wordpress problems I have is the fact that most of the wordpress templates are made up of a separate template for the header, body and footer - and have to be included -- My process is to go to the firefox tools and make determinations of widths, colors, and layout and try to relate that to drupal architecture of views, blocks, sidebars, quicktabs, etc.
So if your client purchased a low cost wordpress theme and decided that they just cannot make it work, I'd sell them on Drupal, pull the graphical elements they like from the wordpress theme and basically rebuild it from scratch in drupal.
I've pulled a wordpress converted to drupal theme from the drupal.org (absynthe [http://www.chattersrestaurantandbar.com/] ) and had several issues which is why I decided I would do it the from scratch way.
don't know if this helps, but this was my solution.
I don't know if those
I don't know if those particular themes have been ported over to Drupal. The best way would be just to hunker down and flip through the list. If you need any help converting the themes over contact me. I enjoy working with themes and I have several themes available on d.o that I have converted.