Suggestion

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I'm building my first Drupal website (http://www.district-a-development.com/) with Acquia Slate for a local base artist community group. Two changes I'd like to implement involve 1. front preface sidebar along with the banner image on which the mission statement is placed and 2. the left navigation menu.

Maybe coloring options are a knife in our back, it is very nice to change look and feel of site by using color scheme.

If we are looking to give solution to have theme radicaly changed without coding - this is one of the best ideas there is. One could easily change images and color scheme will do the rest. And with theme options, you're up and running very fast.

Besides, as Slate is not too far away from Marina (name of my first born daughter! :) I think once this is done, it will be less complicated to implement it for Slate.

at The Acqua Slate Handbook page the list of regions goes:
2 Header top
3 Header first
3 Header middle

But the graphic shows

       2. Header Top

3. Header Middle 4. Header Last

Also, the graphic shows the logo and site name in the Header_middle region, but looks to me like it's really in header_first

So I think the graphic just needs these changes to region names:
header_middle=>header_first
header_last=>header_middle

Today acquia marina layout looks something like this:

Picture: http://groups.drupal.org/files/acquia_marina_layout_v1.JPG

And because sidebar-last is not clearly separated from content, some very important things go below sidebar-last.

Picture: http://groups.drupal.org/files/acquia_marina_problem_x.JPG

Many people has this problem and no one knows how to solve it. i.e. how to separate content from sidebar-last. Doing it would be great, if you need to have two sidebars: in a left to show advertisements, menus, views and other important blocks.

I'm interested in making Acquia Marina theme recolorable. Please follow the link and discuss there. I'd like to collect resources to collaborate on this.