By JoeCotellese on

Does anyone have any examples of some great looking drupal websites that don't use the stock themes. I'm interested in what drupal can look at after some extreme theme-fu.

Thanks!
Joe Cotellese
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Steven’s picture

Steven commented

You can find some nice examples in another thread, Truly corporate Drupal sites.

robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

I'll still take the opportunity to plug http://www.zofiart.com - especially since it doesn't look Drupally at all. It is nearing completion and looks pretty nice, over all.

- Robert Douglass

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JoeCotellese’s picture

JoeCotellese commented

That's a nice looking site. Do you know what are they using for the front page? Is it just a static node? Are they using the image.module for inline images?

robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

The front page is just a Page node that has been set as the front page in the general configuration.

The Images for "News" are courtesy of node_image.module. The inline images on the "Technique" page were added using the HTMLArea editor (it is just another Page node). The galleries are done using a hacked version of image.module. The patch for the image.module can be found here http://drupal.org/node/view/9187.

- Robert Douglass

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visit me at www.robshouse.net

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njivy commented

You can decide if it's "great looking" or not, but it certainly does not look like a stock Drupal site! I am still working on it and tweaking things, patiently waiting for various modules and Drupal core to stabilize before I launch it.

Oh, you want a link? Right. Go to http://dev.njivy.org.

robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

The site has a very nice feel to it. I don't feel cramped or overwhelmed by the presentation. I easily find the articles and the blocks. Nice work.

- Robert Douglass

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visit me at www.robshouse.net

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shane commented

Here's a completely custom theme I wrote. I started with one of the stock themes and basically just ripped the whole thing apart, and stuffed pieces and parts back in from other themes. NOTE that the site is running on an ancient version of Drupal (something like 4.2.0). There are some problems - mostly with Table/CSS combination handling in the Internet Exploder browser. Primarily the right hand column gets rendered in a chopped-off way by IE. Also the Weblinks module has some rendering issues.

It's best viewable with a Mozilla/Netscape, followed by IE. I have not tested on any of the Mac based browsers. Sadly I don't have a Mac.

http://www.pdxAdventureRacer.com/

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gde commented

Looks good with both Safari and Firefox.

In both "Who's online" looks thinner and is harder to read than "PDXAR Story Categories". Maybe they are different sizes or one is bold and the other one not?

In Safari there's also a problem with a dark grey rectangle stretching from right above and mid-"discussion forums" and all the way to the right edge.
Vertically it stretches halfway up to the top of the page.

Other than that it looks very good!
Cheers

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harald.walker commented

http://urlgreyhot.com/
Check out the Drupal themes on this site.

http://familytravelog.com/

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mrowe commented

The site I built for my local cricket club, based on xtemplate/pushbutton with some fairly heavy mods:

http://www.edinburghcc.asn.au/

The drop-down menus are pure CSS (except for on IE, where a smidgen of javascript is required to make them drop), and stored in xtemplate's primary links (and a CSS style sheet).

The "latest news" is provided by the summary module, and the sponsor ads on the left are a simple custom block. If you get as far as ordering merchandise (no, I don't get a commission :) ), it is a simple custom module that I haven't bothered to put in contrib, since it is very specific to this site. But I'm certainly willing to share it if anyone is interested. Be warned it's ugly (hard-coded product list, for example).

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Michael Rowe
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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catchlight commented

There are lots of these types of compliation lists out there these days, but this is quite a good one.

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/31-drupal-content-management-system-cms/