Posted by toma on September 24, 2007 at 8:10am
[Edit: this was crossposted to far too many groups and has been reduced to just the Newspapers group.]
I am working on project "news website" and i want to use grid design, i want to start using a css framework "blueprint", anyone have experience with Blueprint with drupal!
check out a sample : http://bjorkoy.com/blueprint/sample.html
http://www.sontakey.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/example.html
Blueprint Generator
http://kematzy.com/blueprint-generator/
Blueprint project
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/
Can panels or panels 2 do grid design
http://drupal.org/node/178087
Comments
Well...
I'm still only a wanna-be expert, but I think you can be sure that Panels + Views Bonus Pack can solve your problems. (I think the VBP has a grid view in it.)
This could make a page in grid design, which you could set as front page. If you spend a little time writing CSS, you could even make it look good. ;-)
If you want more than the front page to be in grid design, you might consider a theme that is griddy. I don't know any right now, but if you're into writing CSS and HTML it shouldn't be too difficult. (I would start off with the Zen theme and modify from that, but as I said: I'm no expert. I've just started modifying themes...)
Hope this helps.
//Johan Falk, Sweden
Thanks for your reply, i am
Thanks for your reply, i am familiar with css and html, and i can do a theme easy, the problem is how to manage to use different layout on website, a frontpage with grids and the website with 2 colum will be easy, i want to have subthemes with different layouts and apply to different section on my website...
A new theme for news / magazine website that use blueprint css framework, its a wordpress theme that was port to drupal
http://drupal.org/node/176877 only for drupal 6
Preview
http://www.hyrme.com/
Do you need blocks to be
Do you need blocks to be horizontally aligned? Do you need lines to be horizontally aligned like http://bjorkoy.com/blueprint/typography-test.html?
Panels should be able to fulfill your requirements of what block goes where and what goes in each block. Check out panels2 too. You can add your own layouts to panels if the standard 2 and 3 column layouts don't work for you.
Blueprint appears to be nothing more than a CSS framework -- albeit a potentially very good one. So why don't you start with Zen theme and pull the framework in to the zen theme, then go from there. We had some similar-sounding requirements for http://justcauseit.com/ which I finished theming recently. Feel free to ask how we did things that interest you -- as there is a considerable amount of server-side theming there.
Bevan/
Nice work, panels 2 still
Nice work, panels 2 still not ready for live production i guess, the idea to start with zen theme + panels 2 and blueprint css framework seems the best
Blueprint
I've made some experiments with a Blueprint theme. For now I just used BP styles instead of Drupal's default styles, so it is not very pretty :)
The layout works -that was the easy part!- but it seems quite difficult to nicely mix BP and the default styles.
I should put it online somewhere...
Default
I tried to also include Drupal's default styles. It works to an extent, but default styles set some margins and paddings so it breaks the vertical grid.
You can check a quick test site here: http://malvese.com/drupal/
I think I'll try to clean up the default styles to make them theme agnostic.