Theme development

As a preface, this discussion goes along with this wiki page over at the Drupal Redesign Group: Improve Theme Categorization

I've been pondering a voting and a review system for the themes for a while now. For many reasons really, but here is my quick conclusion: it won't work the way most voting systems work. Here is why...

Simply put the reason a voting and review system won't work easily is because of change.

http://drupal.org/node/333060 is the perfect example of something completely tweaky that is likely to get broken in the future when some well-meaning person goes through here trying to "optimize" the flow of things. AKA, something we really ought to have automated tests for.

In order to write a proper test, we would need the following:
a) The ability to make hidden themes like we have hidden modules.
b) The ability to enable those themes even though they're not in the UI.

This post is related to the project plan to get in a few new themes into Drupal 7 core. It will list some of the pros and cons of using the 960 Grid System. If you didn't know, it's what most might define as a "CSS framework". This specific framework was created by Nathan Smith. He states that it was started before Blueprint. I have mistaken it myself as a Blueprint derivative since it is a very similar system. But they both were inspired I believe by the same sources.

Is there a how-to/guide/mod to apply a custom theme to the maintenance page? Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

I'm trying to compile a set of CSS classes for using in WYSIWYG editors to let users choose different fonts, but these classes would have to be as cross-browser / cross-platform as possible.

Here's a site with lots of information about this subject:

http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/index.shtml

And here's what I have compiled to date:


.font-arial {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.font-lucida {
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Lucida, sans-serif;
}
.font-tahoma {
font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;
}

Does anyone know of any place to get free or paid e commerce themes? I'd like to have a list of "templates" so to speak to show people who are interested in doing e commerce with drupal and ubercart.

Thanks!

At Drupalcon Szeged, I had some discussions with the documentation team and the usability team regarding workflow for getting their feedback injected early into the core development process. I'd like to start a similar discussion here with you folks.

Drupal 7 with its code freeze date of "When it's ready" represents a great opportunity for us all to collectively "kick it up a notch." Key to this is involving many more people in the core development process than we normally have. There are always several relatively minor core patches that affect themers in the queue at any given time, such as add $node_classes to node templates, as well as huge, over-arching efforts such as administration theme in core.
But unfortunately, a lot of these patches stagnate and die, because designers have not traditionally been a group of people that we've served particularly well. I'd like to see that changed.