Theme development

This is a special interest group dedicated to improving and expanding the Drupal theme system including theme functions and templates, CSS, markup, and how contrib modules add in their functions, CSS, and markup.

for example, we'll take stock of the location and number of CSS files and discuss if the architecture can be improved through emerging frameworks like Object Oriented CSS.

We will consider the questions "What do themers need from Core in terms of CSS? Module developers? SEO specialists?" and "What's new in CSS? What does Drupal support? What's the roadmap for CSS support?"

Color.module demo

Posted by tonyn on August 21, 2008 at 10:32pm

Hi, I wanted to point you guys to a demonstration of color.module I am working on.

http://www.skiquel.com/lab/drupal-6/ - You should be able to get to try it as 'user' and 'admin', and play around with the scheme functionality.

Do you use Adobe Dreamweaver in your Drupal workflow?

Posted by Chris Charlton on August 12, 2008 at 12:06am

Yes, for theme design.

22% (39 votes)

Yes, for module development.

1% (1 vote)

Yes, for both module and theme development.

17% (30 votes)

I don't use Dreamweaver.

61% (110 votes)

Total votes: 180

New default theme for D7

Posted by eigentor on August 10, 2008 at 4:32pm

How about thinking about this.
Garland has had its time, and it starts to really hurt my eye.
Sure going for a recolorable theme is a given necessity.

I opt for Pixture, as I see it is very popular, and also because it looks "Joomly" (this may be a reason for people to NOT use it, I know ;) )
In is actual edition it has layout tables, but I'm working on this flaw with someone. Sure I'm not totally out of hunger for personal fame, but more importantly this would get away from the "Drupal looks like Garland" opinion.

Maybe this is already discussed and I'm only missing it?

Stylish Userstyle for Drupal's CVS Repository

Posted by jacine on August 4, 2008 at 7:07pm

Hey All,

I created a Userstyle for http://cvs.drupal.org with Firefox (and the Stylish plugin), and I wanted to share it with the community. If you're interested, you can download/install it here: http://userstyles.org/styles/9338. Before and after screenshots are also attached.

For those who don't know what "Stlyish" is, it's a Firefox plugin that allows you to change the appearance of any website/page, by overriding the CSS. You can download it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

Enjoy :)
Jacine

Drupal development across India

Posted by zeal on July 31, 2008 at 6:39am
Last updated by sreynen on Thu, 2015-02-26 15:26

Hello there,
If you or your organization is developing in Drupal, please list yourself here. The aim of this post is to prepare a list of the organizations which are working on Drupal CMS. Thus if we want to organize a major event like Drupalcon in India in future, it helps us a lot to co-ordinate between all the organizations developing in Drupal.

Thank you.
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How about organizing 'Drupalindia -0x' (x--year, of course!)
start listing yourself here, below this.
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Drupal color swatches for Adobe Creative Suite software

Posted by Chris Charlton on July 28, 2008 at 7:45am

If you find yourself needing the official Drupal logo colors for your favorite Adobe design software then download free color swatch sets. Color swatches for Adobe Fireworks/Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and even InDesign are available for download for free.

Download the Drupal color swatch sets for Adobe software at XTND.US.

Fireworks (and Dreamweaver)
Only local images are allowed.

Photoshop (and InDesign)
Only local images are allowed.

Drupalcon Szeged Design and Theming Speakers wanted

Posted by eigentor on July 12, 2008 at 11:12am

The Drupalcon Track "Showcases, User Experience and Design" is still taking Session proposals.

Anything touching design and theming is welcome. Drupal is a great tool for designers and gives perfect flexibility in theming which can be viewed in many great sites. Maybe you have been involved in some of them.

To give you Ideas, the Presentations could touch the following topics:

Theming for D6
Design matters in General
Cool drupal modules for designers
Best Practices and effective strategies in theming
Showcasing the theme of a great site and how it is built

Theme for Umich Habitat for Humanity page

Posted by UMHockeyFan on June 25, 2008 at 1:59pm

Hello A2Drupal!
I currently help the UM student chapter of Habitat for Humanity by providing support for their website (http://umhabitat.org). I set up a drupal cms for the group, and the site functions well for their purposes. Unfortunately, I have very little artistic ability, and even less graphic design sense. Therefore, the site uses the standard Drupal theme. Would anyone in this group know a design firm (or individual) who may be willing to donate their time to develop a theme for the site? Please feel free to email me at eric.roeder@gmail.com. Thanks for your help!

clicker theme for drupal

Posted by sherifmayika on June 22, 2008 at 3:02am

we are releasing another theme for drupal for details visite our site

Dreamweaver extension for Drupal

css for styling Drupal form labels & fields inline?

Posted by matt v. on June 19, 2008 at 12:35am

Does anyone have a generic CSS rule set for styling Drupal forms so that the field labels appear inline with their fields? I've worked on some projects where forms needed to be styled that way and while I've been able to get them working I've not been overly satisfied with the end result. I'm hoping that someone with more CSS chops might have already conquered the problem and be willing to share their solution.

iUI Drupal Theme

Posted by robloach on May 19, 2008 at 6:56pm

Just uploaded the iUI Drupal Theme that integrates websites on the iPhone quite nicely by utilizing the iUI User Interface Library. Would really appreciate some help on making it better.

itheme for drupal 6

Posted by sherifmayika on May 6, 2008 at 10:47am

iTheme is one of the best GPL themes for drupal, the basic design is done by ndesign studio. because of consistent request from drupal comuunity . Today I ported this theme to D6 and ready for download

Color.module - Questions for themers

Posted by tonyn on April 30, 2008 at 9:00am

I really need the help of the theming community on this one. It has to do with the way color.module fundamentally works and how it works with themes.

The comment here linked me to an implementation of a color-changing theme for joomla. It uses alpha-transparent PNG images and pure CSS to deliver theme changes on the fly. From the looks of it (I do not have an account there yet, but I'll buy one), essentially the layout is comprised solely of CSS and colorless transparent images.

Drupal API extension for Dreamweaver

Posted by Chris Charlton on April 17, 2008 at 4:09am

XTND.US releases early preview download of their Drupal API extension for Dreamweaver. Reduce typing and get past plain text editing of Drupal files in Dreamweaver. If you are into Drupal and use, or want to use, Dreamweaver then you really need this extension. Let us save you tons of time by reducing keystrokes with our Drupal API code hints integration for Dreamweaver (API versions 5 & 6). The extension provides code hints and code coloring for every Drupal API method in Drupal 5 & 6.

Not only does it provide full Drupal API code hints (5.x & 6.x) in PHP files, but it also adds support for common Drupal file types, like .module, .theme, .info, .tal, etc., provides code coloring and code hints while editing those file types, treating them similar to common PHP pages. No more tweaking Dreamweaver's configuration manually, just download this free extension and makes Dreamweaver more useful when working on Drupal modules and themes.

View a demo video or download the extension at http://xtnd.us/dreamweaver/drupalapi.

Only local images are allowed.

Theme abstraction taken to far?

Posted by tjholowaychuk on April 14, 2008 at 7:39pm

I agree

27% (4 votes)

I disagree

53% (8 votes)

I am not sure

20% (3 votes)

I dont care

0% (0 votes)

Total votes: 15

Drupal Code Search: A new search tool for developers

Posted by JohnForsythe on April 3, 2008 at 4:37am

I'd like to introduce you to an experimental project of mine called Drupal Code Search.

Drupal Code Search lets you search source code from thousands of Drupal modules and themes, use regular expressions, filter results by version, and more.

The goal of this project is to help themers and module developers find code examples faster and easier than before. Results are retrieved using the Code Search Data API.

themer module integration into firebug firefox extension

Posted by skbohra on March 29, 2008 at 1:16am

themer module integrating into existing firebug firefox extension can put themer module out of JS and will give it a cool UI, it will help theme developers a lot.

Firebug helps in examining & editing webpages as a integrated part of Firefox, we can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. it is a really very good extension much needed by every web developer,

as dldege suggested

in http://groups.drupal.org/node/9603

The Best Ideas for a New WordPress Default Theme

Posted by Amazon on March 28, 2008 at 6:38am

http://themeshaper.com/the-best-ideas-for-a-new-wordpress-default-theme/

Here's all the ideas for a new wordpress default theme.

Default theme 1
* A set number of simple pre-defined layouts using accepted CSS techniques
* Speed as a priority with a minimal amount of functions in the theme
* Simple HTML with as little PHP as possible
* No changes necessary that cannot be accomplished through the admin panel
* A theme that follows best practices and can serve as a teaching tool and doesn’t aim to be the theme to end all themes

Default theme 2

Drupal themes survey

Posted by mcp-gdo on March 26, 2008 at 9:02pm

Hi everyone,

This is just a short prelaunch announcement for Drupal Themes. We have a annoucement list and short survey that you might be interested in. I"ll be sure to provide the survey results when Drupal Themes officially launches .

Thanks
Marcel

Improving color.module for Drupal 7

Posted by tonyn on March 23, 2008 at 9:11pm

Only local images are allowed. The drupal color module, if utilized, is one of the most powerful modules in a theme developer's arsenal for extending their design. I feel that this module deserves attention and has the potential to expand.

As a drupal themer who has experimented with color themes and the color.module internals I have bumped into things that would really improve the coloring experience and the module's power/usefulness.

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