By mimhakkuh on

hello everyone,

i just set up all functionalities, modules, views and some content for the site, i am building. i think drupal5 deals just great with taxonomy and architecture-related issues, but i have another problem. i have never done any theming, but i am pretty good with css - so: right now i am still using garland, but i am looking for the most appropriate theme to modify. my site is supposed to serve a small community of artist users and regular authenticated users. artist users can upload their music and blog entries, authenticated users can comment those. the layout is supposed to appear pretty much alike this site:
www.de-bug.de
what i mean is:
1. the whole content is supposed to be located left with an average span of approx 800px,
2. main navigation (no submenu-items) goes by the primary links
3. additional items (related with login, and user specific things while logged in) go vertical on the right col.
4. clean look, no needless decoration, just one big header image

... i am desparately looking for a theme to start with that has some of those features. you might know any good theme - your help is really! appreciated!

thank you so very much - have a nice weekend :)

f.

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Comments

vm’s picture

vm commented

The zen theme is to Drupal 5 what Bluemarine was to Drupal 4 a good framework to begin designing your own theme. However if you so chose, you can actually build a theme from scratch or use an XHTML theme and start there. There are a few videocasts in the handbook - videocasts pages, that deal with themeing and such.

mimhakkuh’s picture

mimhakkuh commented

... thank you very much for all the comments! I already heared of Zen being a good starter, but i have to admit, i don't quite get the reason, as it (layout-wise) differs from what I am heading for. Is it because the Source Code is commented that good?

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lanny heidbreder commented

It's because you can theoretically use solely CSS to change the layout however you want. The name of the theme is a reference to CSS Zen Garden, an idea Dave Shea stole from me ( ;) ) where there are about four million stylesheets wrangling the layout and design of the exact same HTML. The differences between different layouts there are solely due to CSS.

So if you want a reasonably well-structured, tableless document to start from, Zen is your ticket to it.

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themegarden.org commented

Bluebreeze Theme is very good example of mod of Zen Theme.

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vm’s picture

vm commented

(layout-wise) differs from what I am heading for

As explained above the layout can be changed using CSS, however if you want, you can seek out a layout you want with any already available theme and then just adjust the css for colors, if this is what you seek.

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Jeff Burnz commented

The foundation theme can be a good start. There's no glamour in it, but that's its beauty...

www.sitespring.eu

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deadhippo commented

I agree that the Zen theme may be appropriate and it comes with an 800px fixed width version.

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ricoflan commented

Another thought -- I started with Amadou and wound up with what you see at RicShreves.net. It was fast and easy to do -- as you can see it is a very simple approach.

While it is not right on point with all your requests (I run it in the center & wide for example), it does present an alternative to what has been suggested so far.

Good luck!

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Jeff Burnz commented

For an overview of Drupal 6 starter themes you can view the testsite and the comparison table.

http://drupalstaging.com/starter-themes/

http://drupalstaging.com/starter-themes/starter-theme-comparison.html

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