theming

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!

Hello,

I wanted to announce a new module, just released today: Node Cloud. If you're familiar with tag clouds this module should look pretty familiar: it themes the output of a view like a tag cloud.

The primary ordering of the view is from the first sort. The sizing of each item is based on the second sort order. This makes the plugin very versatile for making clouds of popular content, highly rated content (say with the voting api), highly commented content, etc.

I'm currently working on a site for a client. I do my work for him in trade for credit against what he sells so no money is exchanged.
I'm terrible with PHP (read, I know nothing about it). I could really use some help with a request he made of me and was hoping someone here might volunteer some time. I'd be glad to pass some credit along to you for your time if you like inverts of any sort.

It looks like I volunteered to give a demo on creating a Drupal theme from scratch. Here are some initial things I have in my head:

Assumptions

I will assume you understand the basics of HTML and CSS. Here is a good place to start: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

I will also assume you do not know PHP but can understand it's basic usage in web development. http://www.php.net

HTML/CSS Theme

The title of this group is graphing and svg, so maybe this doesnt really fit, but to try to spin the group up a bit I want to share what I was thinking on today. Please comment if you like the idea, or criticize if not. It was about my project and the following thought crossed my mind:

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.

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.