Posted by sksitl on April 25, 2011 at 9:37am
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I saw a great readymade Joomla theme at JoomlaArt. They have some Drupal themes also. But none like the Joomla one. It is called JA Teline. I was wondering if there is anything like that available for Drupal.
With JA Teline, It takes few clicks to create a complex professinal looking site with most of the fuctionality required for a newspaper available out of box. Please let me know if there ars similar options for Drupal. I saw 100s of 50-100$ drupal themes, but non of them suitable for media/news sites.
I am sure these must be a fe as I could see many newssites that are based on Drupal. Have they been made bespoke ?
thanks
sksitl
Comments
Yes, most Drupal news media
Yes, most Drupal news media sites are custom designs. But you could use any of dozens of existing themes to implement a 3-col layout with standard ad units. CCK, Panels and Views are a must. You might want to begin with a news-focused installation profile. We built all of ours from scratch.
I have identified 2 themes 1)
I have identified 2 themes
1) News-Pro from themesnap http://www.themesnap.com/theme-demos/news-pro/node/7
2) St Cromone from Symphonythemes http://demo.symphonythemes.com/index.php?theme=cromone#
Has anyone used any one of these? Are there any better ones?
I've used ST Cromone. You
I've used ST Cromone. You might also check out the "Simple" news theme at Themeforest.
Thanks ithacaindy Simple from
Thanks ithacaindy
Simple from themeforest also seems to be a good possibility.
How much customisation and coding is required later on if ones buys these themes?
Are these themes optimised? What was your experience with ST Cromone?
ST Chrome comes with limited
ST Chrome comes with limited support, I believe (it's been months since I purchased the theme.) Simple's developer was very helpful.