Posted by Yueyue Qin on June 23, 2015 at 10:25pm
Hi all,
As some of you recommend, I will use Pantheon as my hosting. The next step is choosing the theme for Drupal Site. At this point, I have checked out themes from Drupal.org. But after installing some of them, I find that only part of the theme will display comparing to demos.
Except the themes from Drupal.org (which are free), I also took a look of theme forest (http://themeforest.net/category/cms-themes/drupal) for drupal template, which I found they are expensive around 50 dollars. Can any of you recommend me your favorite sites to find Drupal theme or template ? Thank you very much.
Best,
Yueyue
Comments
Don't limit yourself to Drupal themes
Thought I'd jump in here since no one else has yet. The themes that are out there that are specifically made for Drupal are a good place to start, but you might not find one that is the perfect combination of desired aesthetics, UI features, and price.
But with just a little bit of HTML / PHP skills you can repurpose a theme that you find that might not have been originally intended for Drupal.
The first step would be to find a good base theme for Drupal. I'd recommend Zen theme: https://www.drupal.org/project/zen Here are step-by-step instructions on getting started with Zen theme:
https://www.drupal.org/node/1548946
You'll quickly have your site setup with a very generic looking theme. Then you'll create a child theme to extend and improve on Zen.
Then, find yourself a good generic HTML theme, or one for Wordpress, or some other CMS. Then, copy the good stuff from your non-Drupal theme to your Drupal Zen child theme: You can probably just copy the CSS, JS, and image assets into your Drupal theme. (You might need to do a little searching and replacing to change URLs if the directory structure is different between your Drupal and non-Drupal theme.) For the HTML/PHP code you'd figure out which non-Drupal template to use for each Drupal template. You'd replace the dynamic regions (header, footer, sidebar, etc) of the non-Drupal theme with calls to those same things done in the Drupal way.
Pretty quickly you'll have your Drupal site themed just the way you want. Make sense?
Thank you!
It is helpful