The "base" themes.

Posted by sime on July 12, 2006 at 2:19am

I am interested in all the themes that have been designed as "base" themes. The goal of each theme could be varied - eg. it's meant to be the Mother-of-all themes, or just something for your personal use. Thanks to rkerr for helping me come up with a starting list.

Projects
Sands_CSS
Holy Grail
Foundation

CVS only
base_theme
whatsinitsname

PS. If you are wondering about wireframe, Bèr Kessels indicates it is not intended to be a base theme.

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Box Grey

Posted by dale42 on July 12, 2006 at 9:04am

At the recent Drupal Camp Seattle the Box Grey theme in 4.7 was specifically mentioned as a good starting point theme to build on. It wasn't that it was designed as a "base theme", simply that in practice the Rain City folk had found it a good starting point.

Just noticed this is mentioned on the theme download page:

Selecting a base theme
If you are looking for a simple fixed theme it is recommended that you start with BlueMarine, Box Grey or argeebee . More advanced themes are table-less, a good example of this is Friends Electric. CivicSpace has multliple layouts and styles to choose from, however it also has several browser specific fixes which can be difficult to work with.

thanks

Posted by sime on July 12, 2006 at 11:25am

Cool thanks. Have updated the OP.

Wireframe seeking a new maintainer.

Posted by Bèr Kessels on January 11, 2007 at 10:42am

(Crosspost from the theme mailinglist)
I want to spend more time on my attempt for The Ultimate Base Theme.

Therefore I want to either hand over wireframe to someone who is interested, or else close it down entirely before the 5.x release.

Are you interested in this clean development theme? Then please let me know so I can hand it over to you.

Bèr

http://www.webschuur.com | http://bler.webschuur.com

Whatsinitsname »» Sympal_theme

Posted by Bèr Kessels on January 11, 2007 at 10:44am

Just for future reference.
I changed the project Whatsinitsname into Sympal Theme.

http://www.webschuur.com | http://bler.webschuur.com

Zen theme

Posted by alanburke on January 11, 2007 at 2:45pm

http://drupal.org/project/zen

The idea behind the Zen theme is to have a very flexible standards-compliant and (relatively) semantically correct XHTML theme that can be highly modified through modifications to the CSS.

This was intended as a new base theme for Drupal 5.
I find it very useful for building on.

Alan

PErsonally no fan of zen

Posted by Bèr Kessels on January 11, 2007 at 3:21pm

"(relatively) semantically correct" is IMO not even trough: they talk about 'headers', 'footers' etceteras. Worse, in zen the 'header' sits on the very top of the HTML. A header is, semantically seen, nothing more then branding, which, semantically seen, comes after the content.

However, worse, IMO, is that zen did little or nothing to change the XHTML classes and IDs into consistent, useful ones.

The main goal of sympal theme, is to make good XHTML, the main aim of zen seems to be the CSS it ships with.

Sympal theme tries to follow (or even set these) the standards discussed by Tantek and Andy Clark at http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/06/18/elemental-nomenclature/ and http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/whats_in_a_name_pt2.html

I hae nothnig against zen, it looks good. I just don't think it is really much different from box grey and the other simple themes to be called the 5.0 base theme.

http://www.webschuur.com | http://bler.webschuur.com

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Box Grey

thanks

Wireframe seeking a new maintainer.

Whatsinitsname »» Sympal_theme

Zen theme

PErsonally no fan of zen

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