Zen Task Force

I've modified the dark background mentioned here. The greyscale image at the top is a flash image rotator. The default font is Calibri, one of the vista clear-type font. It looks great with clear-type turned on. It looks terrible with clear-type turned off. My guess is most people with Calibri installed are running with clear-type enabled.

See the site at http://www.willwyatt.com.

First I made a PDF (see below), but Rowan linked a brilliant Firefox extension which does the job even better:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/655

It develops the view you need, with only your fields, and your CSS files.. So rather than making a PDF, I'd recommend people install and use Firefox and this extension as part of building their own Zen sub-theme. It's perfect really.

This may not be the right place to put this, but I'm stumped, and cant seem to find a better place.

Everything was going fine, until one day I got the following error when trying to open my subtheme's configuration page:

I have started a stylesheet for the Zen STARTERKIT which converts the theme to "light text on dark background."

Last week I started the challenge to upgrade <a href="http://testedgroup.com" target=_blank">my custom zen sub-theme from zen 5.x-0.7 to zen 5.x-1.0 which has taken a couple more hours effort than I had originally expected. The outcome so far however was worth the effort. Thanks JohnAlbin and contributors.

With the excellent documentation, I have decided to start and modify my frontpage from the traditional river of news to display NODE-X that wraps around BLOCK-X displayed on the right hand side of the content. Now I have hit a barrier and I need your input...

digg.com for ubuntu users? Maybe, but like the earlier version of digg; voting on just the nodes(just the voting). Zen theme in new pajamas! nodes have slideshow of imagefield pics(http://ubuntuwatch.com/node/12), with rip-off of the background buttons for multiple pics, from the lullabots! sorry :P sorry to moshe too ;-) (but you have it in new avatar now ;)

I don't plan to commercialize/earn-from-it in any way, if someone of you thought, it was part of my fun times, playing and implementing with Drupal. It was ready since the oct of '07 but could get it online in dec month. And after all Thanks http://HCoop.net/ !

(i know there are poor way of implementations, hacky job on vote button(half rip-off from rubybaboon), and peekaboo bugs are treating me good for IE.., etc..)

No, it's not based on drigg, project from scratch, but I recommend it to anyone who plans to begin with drupal building a similar website. I'll try to publish the recipe in the near future, if time allows... :)

After all hobby projects don't get your skills rusted, what do you say?
http://ubuntuwatch.com/

I have posted this as a wiki, but was asked to do so as a story - for comments.

I was missing some i18n support in Zen, mainly RTL.

I have added RTL support to version 5.x-0.6 of the theme, so it is just for Drupal 5. I would be happy to receive comments, and to eventually see it in the main branch.

What have I done?
I have added a new class to the body. If the document is left-to-right (the default) it is ".ltr". If the document is right-to-left, the class added is ".rtl". It is similar to the game with the sidebars - you distinguish between different layouts by classes.

Un-theming Zen is getting a little old, so we're looking at settling on a company-wide base theme for all new projects. The themes we're looking into are:
http://drupal.org/project/base
http://drupal.org/project/cleanstate
http://drupal.org/project/hunchbaque
http://drupal.org/project/sympal_theme
http://drupal.org/project/zen_basic

Any opinions on these? Any other must-haves in your starter theme?

One of the other things we do is to include START and END comments in each tpl file so that you can easily trace your templates on the site by viewing source with this snippet:

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.