Purple/Pink Mod of the Acquia Slate Theme

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kojow7's picture

Heya,

First of all I'd like to thank stephthegeek and TopNotchThemes for a great theme indeed. In my opinion it is the best free theme currently available for Drupal.

Secondly, I'd like to share the site I created using the Acquia Slate theme. I have a home-based business that specializes in health and wellness products. We recently came out with a new anti-inflammation drink called Nopalea which I decided to make this website for. The main ingredient in this drink comes from the fruit of the Nopal cactus which is deep purple/pink in colour due to the betalains (natural antioxidants) it contains. The bottle of Nopalea also has a deep purple/pink colour, so I figured what better colour to choose for my Acquia Slate theme than...you guessed it...a deep purple/pink colour. Well, after randomly trying a few colours out, I came up with the current colour which even impressed me as to how well it looked. With that said, here is my site:

http://sonoranlife.ca

Feel free to make any comments or suggestions that you might have.

God bless,

-Meshezabeel

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Purdy!

stephthegeek's picture

I know I already said this on IRC, but what an awesome job :) Thanks for posting it here!

My only complaint would be that the medium grey (non-hovered) primary links are a bit low contrast compared to the pink background. Changing them to something like #ddd would make it much more legible.

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Thanks

kojow7's picture

Thanks stephthegeek,

Since I have the primary links listed both in the top bar and the left block, I thought of keeping the ones in the top bar a bit darker, as they are a bit redundant, but still look nice. But I agree with you about the contrast, so I did increase the block regions to #ddd and the top bar to #ccc. Let me know what you think now. I am not an expert in visual design like you, so if you still think it should still be increased to #ddd let me know.

Thanks again for your input!

  • Meshezabeel

Love what you did with slate

DarrinRich's picture

Love what you did with slate theme. Looks fantastic!

Transparent PNG issue

DarrinRich's picture

I noticed on the "order sonoran" page, the image of the bottle has a white square around it. I'm using IE 6 at work right now to view it so that is probably the issue. On the "sonoran bloom nopalea" page the image displays correctly as transparent image borders. Just FYI :)

Transparent PNG issue

kojow7's picture

Thanks DarrinRich!

Thanks very much for your comments on my theme change and your input on this issue. I think I got the problem fixed. However, browsershots.org seems to not be liking me tonight. If you get a chance would you be able to double check for me? I also noticed that I hadn't applied the fix to the Share and Earn page either, so am hoping that is fixed as well.

Blessings,

-Meshezabeel

Sure thing. When I get to

DarrinRich's picture

Sure thing. When I get to work I'll check it out on our dinosaur with that has IE 6 on it and post back.

The transparent png issue

DarrinRich's picture

The transparent png issue seems to be fixed now. The share and Earn page is fine also.

Thank You!

kojow7's picture

Thank you very much Darrin, it is much appreciated!

-Meshezabeel

Very nice work!

lintlin's picture

This post is a bit old, but I was just reading through everything and stumbled across it. I just wanted to say that you did a lovely job on your site!

This post is a bit old but a

jggarley's picture

This post is a bit old but a lovely job you did on your site. One small observation, since you are not using site slogan name - why not remove the vertical line (|) after the site name? The fix is posted at http://groups.drupal.org/node/22148. You will need to set the border to 0 instead of deleting the border-right line. Hope it help!

Also I need some help with my Acquia Slate theme. Please see post at http://groups.drupal.org/node/23346#comment-86497

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