zen

I am considering presenting on themeing Drupal using the Zen theme for either the April or May meeting.

Here is what I would like to do:

• Explain what Zen is
• How to create and use subthemes
• Creating regions

I will be adapting several designs to the Zen theme, among them:

• spring360 by René Hornig

After a month and a half beta period with only 5 bugs discovered (and squashed), the O-fficial Zen 5.x-1.0 version has been released. Yay!

Thanks to everyone who helped with new features, bug fixes and documentation suggestions! The help is greatly appreciated!

For those of you who haven't looked at Zen since its 5.x-0.6 days, take it for a spin. No longer do you need to un-theme the Deliciously Blue style out of Zen before adding your own styles. It’s a true base theme.

I'm nervous about how there are now 3 different projects with similar goals:

1) The (original PHPTemplate-based) Zen theme
2) The Zengine theme engine
3) The ZenZen (Zengine-based Zen) Theme

The main issue is that there will inevitably be code-drift and these projects will fall out of sync with each other. Fixes to the Zen theme may not show up in the Zengine theme, and vice versa.

Howdy folks! I know we're all busy with our non-Drupal lives which is probably some of the reasons we haven't seen much new work with Zen. Perhaps when the intention was that "Out of the box, Zen is clean and simple with a provided fixed-width subtheme called Zen-fixed" we are getting a little too far ahead of ourselves with some of the bigger ideas floating around. All good ideas and I want to hear more. However, with Zen still at 0.6 perhaps we need to just complete some of the simpler tasks so we can get Zen up to the 1.0 level.

Hi,
I'm very new to Drupal, wasted a week with Joomla before the poor template adaptability to skill ratio got me (all those annoying tables). Have been learning CSS mainly through playing with CSS Zen Garden, though my page is still going through iterations before I get it to do what I want without being able to create different style sheets to compensate for the quirks of different browsers.

Anyway what I want to do is similar to having the extradivs in CSSZenGarden.

So far I've added
- image divs to style.css
with position: absolute;
and width and height 100%;

Hello All !

I'm brand new to the Drupal way, and optimizing ZEN where I need to. I've recently undertaken the task of converting a friends website from static HTML to a Drupal driven business/hobbyist site.

http://www.brandonkirk.com

Just a quick note: I have ported the Zen template to the PHPTAL engine and plan to track the development of the original.

-- Olav

I've been thinking that in order to truly have a purely CSS-modifiable theme, many designers are going to wish that they could move around bits and pieces of the HTML. Should taxonomy be before or after the node content? Likewise with the name/date attribution... and the links. Should the messages appear above or below the help... or somewhere else on the page completely? Allowing Zen subthemes to define their own template.php, node.tpl.php, comment.tpl.php etc... is definitely the beginning of this..