One of the things themers run into when developing themes for contributed themes is having to do lots of configuration and create dummy content in order to be able to style it. Devel is a big help in this regard, but more is needed. Things like pagers, blocks with different types of content, polls, support for popular modules, etc. are not things that immediately jump out at a theme developer/designer as things they need to worry about.
When a contrib theme gets released to the wild, or a theme is considered for core, lots of this type of work is expected from the themer/designer. It comes across in different ways (Bug reports, feature requests, etc), and can end up causing a lot of extra work than anticipated and become a burden, so I'm proposing we work together to come up with an install profile and module to do the heavy lifting.
Please help us create a list detailed list of things that need styling on Drupal sites: http://groups.drupal.org/node/44384
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I use an html element cheatsheet to dump all elements into one page so I can compare them all at once (http://bit.ly/79Pmks), this has also been made into a module http://github.com/voxpelli/drupal-designreview.
I'm think we might be able to include some views - I have a couple that I import for each testing site that generates a bunch of blocks and pages etc that are very useful, we just need a little module to include such views etc.
Nice! That's what I've done
Nice! That's what I've done in the past too. I started to create a module a couple of weeks ago to do this for me for Drupal 7 (part of the whole idea here) because I find it annoying, not to mention a waste of time to have to do. Especially for testing Drupal 7, when you keep needing to reinstall. It's here: http://github.com/jacine/Static (yours has a much better name)
Static content is great for things like post content. The problem with pasting in code for anything generated by a theme function (like forms) is that (a) if the theme overrides it, static code becomes useless and (b) it will eventually become a pain to maintain.
Good related
Good related resources:
http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/nica_lorber/design_drupal_template_appr...
http://www.zivtech.com/zivtech-style-guide
Similar Idea
http://drupal.org/project/northdrop
Awesome! Thank you so much
Awesome! Thank you so much Alan :D
Another good demo:
Another good demo: http://www.kiwi-themes.com/demosite-1/node/44