Design 4 Drupal

Design for Drupal is about bringing the community of designers together to be a part of the Drupal community. It’s about enabling designers and themers to do great stuff, coordinate efforts, come up with crazy ideas, and build a movement to make Drupal beautiful.

For specific questions about theming and how to make Drupal look a specific way visit http://groups.drupal.org/theme-development

Resources:

Issues that need design review.
Design and themeing drupal core initiatives
IRC: #drupal-design
Twitter: #d4d

Why create new themes?

Posted by minus on July 3, 2009 at 9:07pm

I'm a web-designer from norway and have been working with drupal for about 3 years now. Creating drupal themes is a big challenge, especially menus, tabs, blocks, nodelayouts and comments. Css takes a lot of time and can sometimes be a $"#$%&! Out of the box; Why create new themes? Why not do as the maintainers/creators of the quicktabs module? Within that module there are 11 different layouts, wow!. I would love to see a module that had several layouts/designs for comments or tabs. And if you had different menu styles and node layouts, one could pretty much create a more unique theme?

AdaptiveThemes reaching out to the designer crowd

Posted by jeff1970 on June 30, 2009 at 1:31pm

This week I re-launched AdaptiveThemes as the first site to crowd source commercial Drupal themes. Sounds like a radical idea and it probably is. I seen crowdsourcing work for a number of other high profile design projects and I believe these crowd sourced themes can be a huge win for Drupal users and the Drupal designer and themer communities.

The concept is strait forward:

Designers upload designs
Themers convert the designs into beautiful Drupal themes
We sell them and split the profits 50/50, designer gets half, themer gets half

70 beautiful Drupal sites

Posted by jojototh on June 30, 2009 at 11:48am

Who said that Drupal sites are ugly? Take a look at 70 outstanding sites a an inspiration and a proof that Drupal can be beautiful.

http://mogdesign.eu/blog/70-beautiful-drupal-sites/

DrupalCon Paris!!!!

Posted by bladwin on June 25, 2009 at 7:40pm

Any other Florida drupalers planning on going to DrupalCon Paris? If so, I'm looking for others who would like to share a flat for the week of Aug. 30th - Sep. 5th. Got four people planning on going already, looking for more. I need to know by noon Friday, June 26th! Post a reply here and let me know your plans.

Thanks,
Erik

New Adobe.com article: Building Drupal Zen sub-themes with Dreamweaver CS4

Posted by Chris Charlton on June 23, 2009 at 2:11pm

The third article in my Drupal series for Adobe.com is out now. This article covers Drupal Zen Sub-Themes, including Dreamweaver tip(s) when working with Drupal themes.

"When asked why I would recommend the Zen theme versus a core theme such as Garland, I answer, Zen was built to be a seed for your tree—you plant the seed, water it, and watch it grow! Garland looks nice, but is not documented well and has custom page template code that should not appear elsewhere. In short, Garland is just not right as the basis for a theme; the Zen theme is."

Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_zen_subthemes.html

What days do you plan to attend Drupal Camp Los Angeles 2009? (August 8-9th)

Posted by Chris Charlton on June 19, 2009 at 10:59pm

both days (Saturday & Sunday, August 8-9th)

60% (26 votes)

only Saturday, August 8th

7% (3 votes)

only Sunday, August 9th

7% (3 votes)

Not sure, but I plan to attend.

14% (6 votes)

I am not sure I will attend.

12% (5 votes)

Total votes: 43

DrupalCampLA 2009 Shirt Design Contest

Posted by Chris Charlton on June 19, 2009 at 10:41pm

Drupal Camp LA 2009 will be taking place from August 8-9th. Our annual two day event features training, sessions, an install fest, and networking opportunities with hundreds of Drupal users!

New this year is our DrupalCampLA 2009 Shirt Design Contest! You design a shirt and the winner will receive a printed shirt with their design or a Drupal book (provided by book sponsors). Each prize option valued over $25.00!

Rules: Entries must be submitted before Monday July 13, 2009. Designs can be in color. Multiple entries per person is allowed. Usage of the Drupal logo is not required, but helps. One or more of the following phrases should appear in your design(s):
* Drupal Camp LA
* 2009
* Los Angeles
* www.drupalcamp.com (or just drupalcamp.com)
* www.ladrupal.org (or just ladrupal.org)

How to implement apache solr for multiple sites

Posted by jatindercheema on June 19, 2009 at 5:46am

Hi All,

I want to know we can implement single apache solr instance for multiple sites, what all changes required to done...???

Jatinder

Blog, Book, Page, Forum what is best for my menu/nav? Newbie

Posted by kelvis97 on June 18, 2009 at 2:42am

I am trying to set up a navigation system now,
with Drupal, distinguishing between
Forums, Blogs. Books, Pages, is not all that
clearly defined. ........Help!

I want to use Tabs running across the top of the
site, similar to this

http://deltaguitar.ning.com/

I just dont know whether to use Books, Forums, Blogs

The Menu titles will be like this:

Delta Blues.. Texas Blues ..Ragtime Blues.. Other....Gear

Design/Theme Website

Posted by mfer on June 16, 2009 at 1:55pm
Last updated by catchlight on Tue, 2009-06-16 22:46

One of the things that came out of the Boston Drupalcamp was the need for a site with tools/highlights to meet the needs of designers/themers. Developers have tools like cvs.drupal.org, api.drupal.org, the automated testing framework, and more. Designer/themers have tool needs of their own.

This document is meant to be a rough function spec for such a site. The focus here is on the feature set and not what site(s) they end up on.

This is a 'living document'. Please feel free to edit/change/add to it.

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