Posted by sime on November 11, 2007 at 10:44am
Dan Lennox did this theme analysis for me (see attached). The goal was to look for themes that could be shown to potential clients (in green). Some of the themes are not green, but this doesn't make them not good for other purposes.
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Wow...
This is very useful to me. Thanks so much for sharing it!
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I agree
Yes, I agree, very useful.
It's also important to note that this review asked the question "is this ready to use now without modification?". Many of the themes are ready to use now, but would require modification before they would look even mildly good.
Also, this feedback is great and some of the theme developers might be interested in knowing about a reviews of their themes. Ideally the problems that were found should be filed as issues in each individual theme's issue queue.
It's great to get as far as reviewing something and sharing the results, but ideally it should be moved at least to the issue queue and ideally to a patch.
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If I waited for the perfect
If I waited for the perfect time for the perfect action, I'd get nothing done! Better here than my hard-drive ;)
On d.o?
It would be great if theme maintainers could fill a short form with this kind of informations. Then we could search a contrib theme with filters like:
- core version (I know this one is already possible)
- fluid, fixed, or both
- base theme or ready to use
- complete theme or sub-theme
We could also add some useful things:
- does it offer the usual default regions (header, footer, left and right sidebars)
- does it use the color picker
- number of columns, if applicable
- theme "type", if any. eg: blog, photo gallery, brochure, webzine...
I don't use contrib themes myself apart from a few base themes, as I always build custom ones for my clients, but I think it would be a huge help to people who want to simply use an existing theme.
Edit: oh and at least a BIG screenshot should be required. Possibly with a placeholder in special cases like base themes.
Sounds like something like
Sounds like something like http://drupalmodules.com but for themes would be nice.
Cathy Theys
http://YesTrainingAndEducation.com
Cathy Theys
This is a great resource. I
This is a great resource. I posted links to my blog and planet drupal. (I know I haven't contributed to the discussion, I just want to subscribe really! lol)
Bevan/
please don't subscribe by posting
please do not subscribe to a discussion by posting to it. your comment is being emailed to hundreds of people. please use group subscriptions.
i know some people like to use their personal tracker page to read this site but thats not really how it groups.drupal.org is designed. we need a way to mark discussions without participating in them. views_booksmarks might do it. anyone have a different idea? lets not perpetuate the bad habits of drupal.org
And a live theme!
And there should always be a link to a site like Theme Garden where you can see the live theme. Sometimes you can have a cool screenshot, with a wonderful description, but you just look at the live theme and well... not what you quite need. Besides, there are many clients who can't really decide for a theme until they actually see it in action.
I also suggest that themes that are deficient be fixed by the author. And the themes that are not getting fixed be removed from the repository together with the themes that are not working. That's a shame if someone reads our new cool Drupal slogan and then downloads some broken theme entitled "my 1st theme in Drupal that I wanted to contribute to the community" and would see that it's all over the screen like as if it fell from a skyscraper of the designer's imagination over the pavement of web design industry.
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