By bkno on

I'll soon be using Drupal it in a commercial environment.

The default theme (I believe it's Garland) is very complex and comes with a lot of CSS to get your head around. The Handbook themes section doesn't even mention v5.1 so I wanted to get the latest best-practice. Is there one of the standard ones that's better than others to use as a starting point? Either way I get the impression it's going to take hours removing what I don't want from the current theme(s) before I can even start making it look how I want. To encourage everyone to have unique looking sites I thought there might be a bare-bones theme.

One option is to start a new style.css from scratch, is this what most people who produce Drupal sites do?

I'd just like some basic advice really. Cheers.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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driftingusername’s picture

driftingusername commented

How about Zen(http://drupal.org/project/zen)?
They say that Zen is the ultimate starting theme for Drupal 5.

bkno’s picture

bkno commented

Will check it out.

If anyone wants to add anything please do.

visualblind’s picture

visualblind commented

well i'd suggest u to go for Zen theme as well.. i'm also very new to drupal but in 10 days time i've been able to modify zen to such a limit that i believe i can do wht i want.. its nicely commented n therefore gives u hints at the right places in CSS...

for a better understanding plz visit these links as there are so many templates u can choose from n then modify the CSS n template files a little bit to suit ur website

http://themegarden.org/drupal50/

http://theme.drupaler.net/

for an insight on drupal theme engine
http://drupal.org/phptemplate