theme

A heads up on theme development for Drupal 6.

Thanks to the new theme registry by merlinofchaos, there's a nice side effect of being able to intercept theme functions from devel.

What this provides is the ability to list all themable functions used in a page making it a lot more understandable. There is working code but it still needs work. If anyone has ideas on presenting this information please post it. For now it just dumps it into a table but we can get pretty fancy with this, especially with jQuery.

Here's the issue queue:

Jared, Shawn and I were talking this weekend about panels and themes. The question of eliminating blocks from your theme when using a panel came up. I couldn't find the code for this, but just go it from one of my engineers:

I love the way you can use a phrase like "People who live in %" using the regular Drupal profile module and then by clicking the link, get a list of all users who live in %. I'm trying to get the same thing happening with profiles as nodes. I've tried using CCK taxonomy fields in both the Node Profiles and the Bio Modules. It almost works, but only intermittantly. Sometimes I get the message "There are currently no posts in this category ..." other times, some users will show up and others won't - even when they have been tagged with the the term.

I've packaged and uploaded the three themes we discussed at recent meetings (Nirvana, Nirvana Skeleton, and Barebones): files.fourkitchens.com/drupal.

IMPORTANT: These are unofficial, marginally untested, alpha releases! Official versions of the themes will be uploaded to Drupal's CVS when we're completely happy with them. Your mileage may vary!

I'm starting to build a search engine company primarily targetting small and medium businesses to a) Transition to Drupal and b) To get their SEO/SEM business. I wanted to bounce of the theme http://www.surgeboom.com. We are not even ready at alpha stage but I think the theme is coming along.

Would love to have feedback.

The Armenian Developer Group is currently working on a new Drupal 5.1 Theme.

Themers! Where are you? Let's get together. There's lots of work to be had, and we can throw some your way. I'm tired of turning away clients (due to workload) without referring them to designers I know and trust. I want to meet you and give you work!

My apologies for the job-ish posting -- I know it's not the ideal forum. I tried posting in Paid Drupal services a week ago, but as the comments reveal, many of the replies were from overseas companies whose websites are rife with design and spelling errors.

This project started about 4 months ago. At first it was just to contribute a nice little theme but it changed into a source of learning and experimentation on what could be done with Drupals' theming layer.

The code is commented pretty well so I hope others can learn from what's been done. Some of the ideas that went into the theme will eventually end up in the handbook and a site will be dedicated to it also.

I would just like to inform/promote a site that I have worked on for the Sustainable Living Foundation. It is still a work in progress after nearly 2 years of involvement. Now, I have not spent all that time on this site and have built about 15 other sites in this time with drupal among other things. This site started with drupal 4.6 and has made it to 4.7.4. I can't remember all the modules I have utilised or trialed in this period along with two whole themes developments. The theme is shared across all six proposed multi sites but has a specific style file for each site.

One of the most important and difficult parts of building a site is theming the integrated module output. If distributions are required to support all core themes, then designers will have to ensure that their integrated contributed modules will work with all core themes. This is too difficult. Profile and distribution designers should have the option to included fewer themes in their distribution.

Designers will want to focus on the user experience of their distributions and not on the laborious task of systems integration.

Kieran