By pmusaraj on

Hi guys,
My small web design company has just released a new free theme for Drupal. It's a simple theme, CSS-driven (tableless) with a left and right sidebar. You can check out it's demo here: www.osskins.com/drupal5/ and download it from this page: www.osskins.com/main/drupal/free-drupal-theme-bizcenter/2007/03/15

In fact, at www.osskins.com/main you can find a whole bunch of new and old Drupal themes, all available for download.

P.S. Does anyone know how do I get this theme posted on the main theme repository? I have been looking for the right link on the site, but no luck.

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heine’s picture

heine commented

To get your theme on the download page, you need to create a project and add it to the Drupal.org CVS repository.

The page CVS contains a lot of information. You'd probably want to start with

Usage policy and Maintaining projects with CVS.

Before doing so, check the license of the theme; only themes released under the GPL can be added to the Drupal.org CVS repository.
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pcs305 commented

Some of the themes there do have copyright notices on them. So i would be reluctant to download.
But I do like the designs! very nice. And thank you for donating.

Like Heine said, dump them on CVS and we can enjoy.

pmusaraj’s picture

pmusaraj commented

Those are just dummy texts. There are no copyrights on the theme you can download. Use it, peruse it, edit it. No attribution needed either.

http://www.curiousfish.org

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nancydru
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commented

I really dislike fixed width themes. Just don't understand wasting my screen real estate; and what does it look like if they don't open a full window?

Nancy W.
now running 5 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in Your Database

NancyDru

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pmusaraj commented

Thanks guys for your comments. Except for bizcenter, the other templates are available for sale at www.cmslounge.com

Nancy, re: fixed-width templates, I hear where you are coming from, but I really think you shouldn't think of it in terms of "wasting screen real estate". Just as with anything, you want to draw attention to the important things, and often, websites that fill the whole real estate confuse the viewer, because often, by 'filling' real estate they end up adding more elements than needed.

Lots of websites have more stuff than they need to. Whitespace is important, essential to drawing attention to the focal points of the website. And, unless you are a media magnate like nytimes.com, you really don't need to fill the whole screen (and nytimes, btw, doesn't either).

Thanks again for your comments.

http://www.curiousfish.org

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ergophobe commented

I used to consider it basic and fundamental that web pages should have a fluid design. That was before I got a monitor with a native resolution at 1680px wide. Now when I visit a fluid site, I just find it a total pain in the butt to resize my browser just to make the page at all readable.

I think fluid design was a great idea when you had screens in the 640 to 1024 pixel range. Why make a person with a 1024 pixel res suffer through a fixed width site set for people on 640px monitors? Sure, the site could look terrible to people with really wide screens (i.e. 1200px - imagine!), but there weren't many of those. But then large monitors became quite cheap and looking through server logs for a few very different sites, I found that looking at over over 20,000 visitors and 80K-100K page views I had not seen a single 640px width, had 1-2% at 800px, 40% at 1024, and the rest all larger, with quite a few at 2000px.

At that point I pretty much decided to go fixed width henceforth and save the widescreen people from having to manually change the size of the browser window to match my screen.

Yahoo! agrees. Amazon doesn't, but reading Amazon reviews on my monitor without resizing to a reasonable line length is just awful.

One option, if you're industrious, is to have a semi-fluid design that works like a step function. Basically, you detect screen width and use a JS css switcher so that you have a series of fixed width designs that scale up in a step function from cell-phone to ultra-wide. There was an article on this technique at ALA recently. This is well worth reading

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/switchymclayout

Cheers,
Tom

Yosemite Explorer - hiking and climbing in Yosemite (drupal)

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nancydru
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Primary language English
Location Boston
commented

I did design one site that way. It uses percentages for left and right margins, leaving blank space. That way, it scales even if the user changes the window size.

Nancy W.
now running 5 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in Your Database

NancyDru

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magpie5212 commented

There are lots of reasons for people to resize a web page. Some users have difficulty seeing things at normal scales. For them, what appears to be a wide screen to you is just normal. Try resizing your font to 24pt or bigger and see what your page looks like then.

Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts