Zen Task Force

The Zen theme aims to be the ultimate standards-compliant starting theme for Drupal. The name is an homage to the CSS Zen Garden and its aim to completely redefine the look of a site purely through CSS.

This group seeks to solidify the Zen theme to make sure that it is truly pliable, flexible, and adaptable. We will also discuss and implement improvements and future directions for this theme framework and for Drupal theming in general.

You can also find some of us hanging out in the #drupal-design IRC chatroom.

Viewport moving from right to left

Posted by Renzy on January 31, 2009 at 10:54pm

Hi there,

I have just about finished building my first very basic theme for a client using Zen sub-theme. I have used the fixed width layout with a 3 column design. I have a problem where the viewport, or entire page width is moving slightly from right to left, or left to right. It appears to be dependent on the length of the page, with navigating between the shorter pages, that do not require a scroll, it is not happening. However move from a page with long content, to a shorter one, then the movement is noticeable.

How to troubleshoot for missing background images?

Posted by Anonymous on January 26, 2009 at 11:53pm

Hi,

I am building/styling a Zen subtheme. I'm doing something quite simple using a background-image to replace a list item (<li>), but the image isn't showing up in the page.

Bug in Zen Classic theme: Logo link is using base_path instead of front_page

Posted by demisone on January 14, 2009 at 9:06pm

Hi there all and thanks everyone for their work in the zen theme! I'm pretty new to drupal and I was using it as a basis in a multi-lingual site but I was in front of a bug: when the presentation language was different than the default language the logo link (which is supposed to take you back to the home page) was pointing always on the default language. I started searching on google, thinking that it was a drupal problem, but since I couldn't find nothing I started to search through the source code of zen theme.

How to stop taxonomy terms from showing below node title?

Posted by mariay on December 31, 2008 at 12:48pm

I am using the 6.x-1.x-dev Zen Classic theme from 16 Dec. 2008. The text "in" followed by the taxonomy term appears under node titles. I would like to remove this or at least change the "in" to something understandable such as "Keyword: " or "In category: ". I tried identifying what to change with Firebug without success. Any help would be much appreciated!

Override zen_preprocess_* functions

Posted by don@robertson.net.nz on December 23, 2008 at 5:58am

Greetings,

I am trying out Zen by rebuilding a Drupal 5 theme as a Zen sub theme in Drupal 6. Pretty impressed with them both so far

I have created a _preprocess_page function, but it seems to inherit the results of the zen_preprocess_page function. Is there any way of overriding the zen function without having to edit the zen/template.php file?

Cheers

Don

Six Toes site

Posted by marcus7777 on December 19, 2008 at 4:09pm

just a big thanks to all of the help with zen, THANK YOU. It helped me make a site for my brother sixtoes.co.uk

Help with theme_preprocessor function

Posted by ctmattice1 on December 9, 2008 at 4:50pm

I building a subtheme for zen and have run into a issue I could use some assistance/ guidance on.

I kept wondering why the maintenance page kept rendering in the default drupal theme in D6 where in D5 I could get it to render under a modified zen theme I call oldzen. In searching for the answer I found out how to do it and made the changes needed in settings.php, copied zens page.tpl.php file to my subtheme and renamed it maintenance-page.tpl.php

IE6

Posted by irishjays on December 5, 2008 at 5:30pm

Hello, just started implementing the zen theme in my drupal sites. Practicing on the wedding site for my lady and me. Invitations are out, site looks fine in FF and safari, but IE6 really looks like crap. I'm using zen liquid, but have tried it with fixed and had the same result. Can someone take a look see
http://www.jamesandtheresa.com

I've spent 4 hours fiddling with no result, I'm about to go insane. attached is an image of what my site looks like in IE6.
Thanks,
James

Whats the difference in the CSS files

Posted by micahcirce on November 22, 2008 at 6:08pm

I'm a newbie to Drupal/Zen and a relative newbie to web design in general. I'm having some trouble understanding how all the CSS files in the new sub-theme I'm creating interact? "print.css" is self explanation. The other's are a bit confusing to me. "layout", "html-elements", and "Starterkit" (which i've properly renamed).

Is there any documentation that explains the interaction of these three? If not, could someone give me a few words of advice/explanation.

Thanks. I really like what this theme and group is doing.

So, what’s so great about Zen?

Posted by nonprofit on October 28, 2008 at 6:44am

Hi!

Pardon, the combative title...this is a post with serious intent. I'm a themer who up until this point has preferred to start from scratch. (My tpl.php files validate to xthml 1.0 strict standards.) I've used Zen before and find it much easier to start with a blank canvas. I've reviewed the code from some really beautiful high-profile sites and noticed Zen was the parent theme. I recently attended a Drupal camp and Zen was hyped by a developer I really respect. So, now I'm starting to rethink using it.

When/why is it better than rolling your own page templates?

Thanks!

-NP

Some sites I've built using Zen

Posted by dellintosh on October 27, 2008 at 11:31pm

Woah, totally missed putting this site up here. But these websites were built as a zen sub-themes, and I just want to say how much Zen rocks!

http://www.meredithandrews.com - Meredith Andrews

http://salvadorlive.com - Salvador

http://thespillcanvas.com - The Spill Canvas

http://francescamusic.com - Francesca Battistelli

The part that excites me is that I can build these sites around Zen and greatly improve my efficiency!

Removing Drupal CSS and module CSS at Drupal Zen

Posted by chriscalip-gdo on October 27, 2008 at 6:34pm
Last updated by jcmarco on Mon, 2008-11-17 18:37

What is that??!!!!

To remove the Drupal Core CSS and Drupal Module CSS simply edit your template.php
insert this code snippet or edit the sample _preprocess function.

Remember to update [template_name] to your specified sub theme name.

<?php
/**
* Override or insert variables into all templates.
*
* @param $vars
* An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
* @param $hook
* The name of the template being rendered (name of the .tpl.php file.)
*/
function [template_name]_preprocess(&$vars, $hook) {

Zen theme candidate for D7 core ?

Posted by ineation on October 27, 2008 at 1:03pm

Hi there, I am sure that you have seen the discussion about having a new core theme for D7.

If not you can go there :
http://drupal.org/node/293540#comment-1076165
http://groups.drupal.org/node/16200

As Zen is for sure an obvious candidate, I suggest the Zen Task force group may work on a proposition of an updated D7 Zen plan that answers the different needs that are expressed in the above discussions.

Should we start a wiki for the specifications of a D7 core Zen Theme ?

starterkit not compatible with drupal 6.4

Posted by Renzy on October 23, 2008 at 4:59am

I was about to have a go at building my first zen sub theme.

Installed files as described in documentation, and after navigating to the theme admin page next to the image of the starterkit icon the message says that:

"This version is incompatible with the 6.4 version of Drupal core", (and the toggle box in crossed out by default).

I am running 6.4 on a test site and downloaded Zen for drupal 6.

Can someone please advise,
TIA - :0)

Renaee.

Subtheming Zen 6.x-1.0 beta 3: Issues in Safari

Posted by stevier on October 17, 2008 at 4:26pm

I'm trying out Zen to create a theme for a site, and I'm running across a really strange issue in Safari. I had to edit page.tpl.php to get some rounded corners into my menu, and what seems to be happening on Safari is that it doesn't recognize the tag after one of these elements. Thus, it's trying to render the entire menu in a space that's only 8px wide. In Firefox, the width is messed up a bit too, but not nearly as much as it is in Safari.

Here's the code I added to page.tpl.php:

<?php
 if ($left): 
?>

Can this layout make simple by using the zem theme

Posted by charlie_lab on October 16, 2008 at 3:55pm

Hello,

I have now a textpattern site (http://www.tamarawobben.nl)
I'm now testing Drupal.
Can i easily change the zem theme so i have the layout as my old site.

Regards,

Roelof

zen and phptal status?

Posted by iainduncan on October 14, 2008 at 11:23pm

Hi folks, just wondering if anyone can comment of the status and/or feasability of using zen with phptal. I've used zen with success for a couple of projects now and have been quite pleased, but would love to be able to use a template attribute language. ( I'm a huge fan of Genshi for python ). I noticed a comment from Olav of phptal regarding a port but the last action in phptal land seems to be from a while ago.

Thanks
Iain,
vancouver, bc

Primary Nav Styling

Posted by Truncale on October 9, 2008 at 2:51am

Hi There. I am new to Zen, but see where it's going.

I love that I can over-write any core css files in a sub theme. I am working on one right now an fining it difficult to identify the hierarchy, and location of the elementary to style the primary-nav. Any insights or resources are much appreciated. Anyone else having issues?

SIFR 3 and Lite

Posted by daniorama on October 2, 2008 at 1:22pm

Hello, I would like to try to add SIFR fonts in Zen, using SIFR 3 (or Lite better) I know there is a module to do that Dynamic Rendering, but the big problem is that it changes fonts Sitewide and have no options for each Theme. I think adding an option to enable/disable SIFR would be really cool for Zen.

Anyone could help me with this? I'm not really sure how to do it. Thank you very much!

PS: I've created a Superfish menu region for my Subthemes if someone is interested http://drupal.org/node/316219

CS4 Party site launched with Zen Theme

Posted by Chris Charlton on September 26, 2008 at 10:38pm

Earlier this week I launched http://cs4party.com to promote the celebration our Los Angeles Adobe User Groups are holding for Adobe. I used Strata 3D, exported to H.264 video which I converted to FLV with Flash CS3, and made a SWF header to play and loop the FLV video. Zen was used entirely, so I have a cs4party sub-zen-theme that is literally my first public Zen theme, ever. FYI, the site is Drupal 6.

http://cs4party.com

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