A New Drupal Theme make your site looks like Joomla
faqing - July 25, 2007 - 00:28
I found Litejazz theme
that used a concept from Joomla: user area. If you use it with view blocks, you site will looks like joomla site. How? Just installed Litejazz theme, and ThemeSettingsAPI Module
You can download the theme at: http://drupal.org/project/litejazz
Demo site:
http://demo.roopletheme.com/litejazz/
I also installed it at my site: http://thanhsiang.org/faqing
Seems interesting...any
Seems interesting...any problems?
There is no problem, just to
There is no problem, just to share info regarding good theme.
why does it look good at the demo, but less so at your site?
Thanks for sharing this theme with us. I wish there were more Drupal themes available.
This theme looks real good at the demo, but less good at your site. Why is that?
I use view to create blocks
I use view to create blocks for user area (there are 12 user areas you can use block). I also use panels in the content part.
Before I use my own theme: garland dropdwon theme: http://www.thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/59
I don't understand, how does
I don't understand, how does the lightjazz theme make your site look like Joomla? In what way? How does Joomla look differently then Drupal.. *confused*
Actually, this theme is much more than a Joomla clone
The main similarity to Joomla themes is that they have many regions on the page where content can be placed. Drupal core has regions too, where blocks can be placed, but they are severely limited in comparison to Joomla. What this theme does, is add several more regions, so that it becomes easy to customize a page design with minimal effort.
I've spent the past 3 hours examining this theme. It is revolutionary and could end up changing the theming issue in Drupal completely! With this theme, you can easily place content in many locations on the screen simply by choosing where to place a block. Add the Views module to this theme and you have an extremely powerful feature set. Create your custom content as View blocks, and then place those blocks in any of 12 collapsible regions. Since the regions collapse, or disappear if not used, you can completely change the look of the theme simply by choosing where to place blocks, going from one column, to 2 columns, to many columns.
This theme also supports fixed width or liquid layouts, simply by selecting an option in the configure section.
The stylesheet structure has been designed to separate color theming from the other styles. Therefore, it will be simple in the future to build "color theme" style sheets, which I assume (and hope) can be chosen from a list eventually. These will be more flexible than the color module approach in Garland, because the color theme author can customize colors in far more detail than is allowed in the Garland color module.
Now, all this theme needs is a superfish js drop down menu, and you'll start seeing themes in Drupal like you've never seen before!
Note: I am not connected to the developer of this theme in any way. I'm just excited because I've been looking for this customizable approach to theming for a long time, and this theme is headed in the right direction!
but how is that different
but how is that different they say using nested panels, don't they collapse as well and you can make them in any combo you like allowing for any number of divisions of space. I thought that was one of the points of separating the design from the layout, so that content layout isn't linked to the theme but the content so you could say change the theme and still maintain your complex structure, am I nuts here?
The more I think about this the more it doesn't make sense to me, you can put content anywhere you want in Drupal by using view blocks like you talk about in your post so how is it limited in relation to using views as blocks for content in comparison to how Joomla handles content isn't the opposite true?
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It's just a theme. Drupal has been capable of this type of theming for quite some time. No one has contributed such a theme to the community. They often just build them on their own customer sites.
-Steven Peck
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Thanks for the clear
Thanks for the clear explanation.
well. ..sounds good..but some doubts
how does one theme this further..like...i wld like to be able to align things left..rigth..center..and change colors..and so many things..
pls share ur learnings of the 3 hrs :)
This is the most brutal
This is the most brutal thing about Drupal, I am trying to spur a movement of designer I know to show some public love to Drupal. Where are all of my fellow designers? I am actively building a css skin pack for lack of better terminology that will be color independent clean graphics and am trying to get a solid admin ui that clients can enjoy but It seems odd to me that this is such a lackingy area in this community, am I just crazy or is the population around here like 10 to 1 Engineers and Devs to Designers?
You're right about themes
You're right about themes lacking in Drupal, at least "out of the box" themes. I haven't begun to theme my Drupal site yet, so I'm sure I don't even know the half of it LOL.
Any advice for a "soon to be themer"?
groups
have you tried the "design" and/or "theme" related groups on groups.drupal.org? no, haven't subscribed yet myself (still over my head), but i do watch.
yes, there is a ton of good
yes, there is a ton of good data there but also a lot of bad data so it can be hit and miss. I don't think it's the technical details of design that are really absent in this community but rather the lack of submitted professional quality designs. Most engineers or devs don't want to mess with design and i think a lot of devs no better then to do something if they dont have an eye for it, this leaves them in the position of having to use established themes.
I understand the problem of getting your designs in the open source air as I have had to offer discounts to clients in order to use the design i build for them as an open source theme for Drupal, however there is one on its way now that should be well above the standard themes you see in the collection but it would be great to see a real regular release from community experts, are bounties available for designs, if not how could such a system be derived(how does one spec design art and UIs for bounty and what is an acceptable cost?).
Anybody with an idea of how we as designers can over come the whole issue of clients not wanting to share their "look" would really be appreciated. I honestly believe getting more designers involved in the community will help Drupal greatly.
Please nobody take any of this as offense toward existing designs, there are some really good themes and I use them regularly I just would like to see more.
how to overcome limitations set by clients
a possible way would be to modify the theme a little and submit it to the site...a small modification wont take too much time..adding a feature..or removing one is all that is needed.. i would guess.
another way would be release a part of the design features..like the user profile page, forum themeing etc..this way..users can pick features from different places..and theme uniquely...
could you post links to some of the sites u themed..would be very happy to go and see them..
correct me if my suggestions are off the mark.
thanks
well I am theming my first
well I am theming my first professional Drupal site right now. I am very new to the open source community and just finished a long sting with a draconian company that I wont even mention for fear of insane shrieking from their lawyers as I am currently engaged in negotiations for certain artistic properties, hopefully it wont go to court(long story don't ask). however you can see the small changes I have made to the itheme here
http://piratemesa.net
but i haven't touched that site at all design wise since the night i did all the tweaking on it.
I will post my new theme and the site using it shortly as the client is proud to be using Drupal and I hope it will make a positive impact on the views of outsides looking at Drupal sites. I will also be posting a css skin pack shortly that hopefully some developer will implement in a more automatic method, the piratemesa site lightly uses the quartz portion of this skin pack to provide a colorless set of skins to highlight the site, you can ctrl+f the source to see the few places that "quartz" is invoked. For example if you right click the terribly outdated "Drupal vs Joomla" article graphic and "View Image" you will see that it does not contain the background image that makes up the tab like top to the graphic, this is quartz that is doing that instead, its just css skins but I plan on cranking a ton out so somebody can do something productive with them.
One way to get better designs
Will be to provide designers with Drupal themes that can be easily customized without the designers having to become php programmers.
Garland was a step in the right direction, at least for color schemes, but it is notoriously difficult to change the layout of this template.
Well, I hate the idea of
Well, I hate the idea of re-using other people's skins/themes/templates, so that's why I don't make any for other people and don't encourage people to make them for others. I will rather try to help people understand how to make templates themselves, so everybody has a chance of making themselves a unique template fitting their own needs.
I am wondering what the IE PNG Fix feature in this template actually does. It says you should enable it when using PNG images, but that means the developer has manually put them in the code which also means the developer can manually add a little bit of CSS (Google for 'msdn alphaimageloader' for more information on this subject) to make IE walk in line. By coincidence I wrote a little post (in Dutch) about this matter today. IE will act slow when making excessive use of PNG files and will sometimes act a little weird too. Creating a little checkbox that tells Drupal to implement this code for IE will probably cause people to use more PNG files than is good for IE which causes rendering flaws and speed issues in its turn again. In short: the IE PNG Fix feature is a no good.
Just a little sidenote on the theming part: I think there are way too much people on the forums here asking support for making designs. Those questions have to do with HTML and CSS and not with Drupal. In my opinion those people should move to forums dedicated to webdesign so they'll get better and faster answers to their questions and the Drupal forums won't be 'polluted' by posts not related to Drupal.
Really?
We couldn't disagree more about general purpose themes. If you want to design your own custom theme from scratch, then by all means do so. But there are plenty of people who simply want to use Drupal to create a professional looking site. And they don't want to have to figure out XHTML, PHP, CSS, and PhotoShop slicing techniques in order to do it. You may not need it, but some people do.
We think that PNG files are easily the superior graphics file format for web use. Furthermore, we think that the use of PNG files on the web would be more prominent if it were not for the abysmal support of the format in Internet Explorer. The IE PNG fix simply allows a designer to use transparent PNG files on their site without breaking Internet Explorer. Don't need it? Disable it.
And yes, we are guilty of 1.) encouraging the use of PNG files, and 2.) discouraging the use of Internet Explorer.
www.roopletheme.com
About the PNG part: The
About the PNG part: The problem is that you don't discourage people to use IE, but you encourage them to not visit sites that use the PNG fix excessively. People don't think like "Jesus, my browser's really crap. Let's find a better one.". No, they blame the site for not working. Giving developers an easily accessible switch for using this fix may cause people to dislike their sites and stop visiting them. I love PNG files and I hate IE, but I do try to think of the consequences of the things I do.
Let me try to explain this perspective
Many of the questions below this thread seem to be coming from a programmer's viewpoint. ie. "I can do all this programmatically, how is this different?"
This is always a challenge with new approaches. Programmers love to program. They aren't interested in highly productive ways to shortcut their talent. However, ask yourself this question: "are you interested in using your talent, or are you interested in providing a solution quickly and easily?"
If you are trying to make a living as a web development professional, then you want to provide quality custom code in the shortest time possible. If you are developing your own websites, then you want to get them up and running in the shortest time possible.
This theme allows you to make sweeping changes to the look and feel of your website simply by selecting options from a list. Yes, as a programmer, you could probably do it better from scratch, but it will take much longer.
What makes this theme so awesome is that it uses the Drupal core block technology to layout your website in a matter of minutes, rather than days. You aren't tweaking css, you are selecting from a list. The css has already been debugged, so progress is much faster. You are building off the work of others rather than reinventing the wheel every time. Simply create a block with Views, and then choose where to place it on the screen.
If programmers don't get it, I assure you that developers and readers get it! I may be biased here a bit, but that's because I own a consulting company that specializes in productivity and efficiency. I'm not interested in the esoteric "power" of programming and the artistry involved. I'm interested in solving a problem in the quickest and most reliable way, period.
Some people will love this theme, others will hate it. But it provides a path to a new paradigm for Drupal theming. The theme needs work, but it's headed in the right direction. If you don't believe in the power of point and click web design, just look at the success of Joomla. They have built a HUGE following simply because SOME elements of using their CMS are easy, such as theming. (even though, IMHO, Drupal blows them away in the code efficiency department) This theming approach would give Drupal the power of Joomla theming with the code efficiency and ease of programming in Drupal.
The best of both worlds.
I totally agree with
I totally agree with zoon_unit and well explained. Thanks a lot.
Just check joomlart.com, we will know how much Drupal theme behind them. By the way, I borrowed some code from joomlart.com for my Garland Dropdown theme.
I guess I just disagree
I guess I just disagree about linking your layout to your theme, in my opinion it is more efficient making design changes and layout changes without affecting both in the process, this also allows for a separation on the user level where people can make all the changes possible to a pages layout without having to have access to the themes files. If I am wrong about this I would love to know why as to improve my own efficiency in the future.
I'm confused
What do you mean about separating design changes and layout changes? Aren't they the same thing? Changing the theme is exactly how we differentiate one web design from another. But in the past, we've had to do that with php template changes and numerous css tweaks. And how many people have had layout problems with tableless css?
I don't understand. How does the user change the design of a website currently? Users change the CONTENT of the website, not the layout. Ironically, this new theme actually makes it possible to change the layout of a site WITHOUT access to the themes files (if they have admin access) which is a major step forward in template design. Imagine a web customer deciding that they need to add a new graphics block or list of recent posts to the center portion of the main page. Normally, this would require changing the code in the page.tpl.php file on the server. With litejazz, that can be done without touching the theme code at all.
The only other way to do this currently is with the panels module, which is also an exciting option. But I would imagine that the template layout approach would be more efficient. (eager to see panels 2 though)
Your touching on my exact
Your touching on my exact point, if a theme uses uniform design practices correctly you can using only blocks, panels and views divide a page up into any number of areas that collapse there by creating a near limitless amount of options for stacking content and using collapsing logic. If you build this logic into your theme then it is dependent on the theme for the structure, if you want to change you design then you must create a design the implements the same structure that last one used. If you use Drupal to create the layout structure separate from the design(no, they are not the same thing) then you have more freedom to make changes in more ways, which to me equals efficiency.
I see your point
And frankly, I see the panels approach as having many advantages, especially now that nodes can be panels, and different panel layouts can show up on different pages. However, panels has one weakness: it only works on the main content area.
Litejazz, using Drupal regions, allows you to place content in the form of blocks, all over the page design. What if you want your primary menu to be above your banner, rather than below it? Can't do that with panels. Of course, you could design a theme specifically to use in conjunction with panels, which is an intriguing possibility. (basically just a big blank content box) However, panels also offers a limited number of layout options. To get more, you have make custom layouts, the same thing you'd have to do in changing a template layout. And modules like panels adds processing overhead to Drupal.
Litejazz is surprisingly lean. The extra regions used by the template only require a small amount of code.
If you REALLY want to get fancy and aren't worried about performance issues, you can certainly use litejazz and panels together for the maximum design flexibility.
interesting, I find many of
interesting, I find many of your points to be compelling reasons to use this technique for the performance reasons alone, If i cold present to you a diagram of how I propose you use a standardized set of elements for containers to like you kinda said make a large slate or canvas, however as you point out the problems with panels and js tabs and all of that is overhead and I primarily use them for getting the design to where the client wants. That being said I think I would still rather isolate my layout to blocks of static html at most rather then at the file level.
Why?
What's the advantage of that?
Btw, regions in Drupal are just hooks in the page.tpl.php file to print "region# so and so" if content exists. The regions are all wrapped in static html. They've just been formatted so that if a region contains no data, that static div collapses to nothing. (or doesn't get printed at all)
As for performance, the block cache and boost modules have the potential to vastly speed up Drupal sites by turning more content into static html, thus overcoming the overhead associated with complex modules and code.
I like the concept very much
I understand that programmers can do what ever they want with Drupal, but thanks for the Litejazz theme, now even we non-programmers can easily change the structure of our Drupal sites. The concept of the new Litejazz theme with the huge number of flexible regions just rocks.
Even better, actually highly appreciated, if some of you talented designers with your CSS-skills could help a little and contribute some nice color sets for the Litejazz theme (the CSS taking care of the colors is in a separate simple file, it should be easy to build color sets - if you have the skills... at the moment there is one color set available for the theme...)
Great theme!!! One of the
Great theme!!! One of the pressing issues for me in deciding to work with Drupal or not was the configuration of themes. I tried Drupal back in the earlier days and I must admit I was very discouraged because the design layout of themes was too confusing for me at first. I just didn't get Drupal. I have designed several sites under Joomla and one issue, which I won't go into here, made me decide to look at alternate Open Source CMSs. Well, I am a solid convert to Drupal - I absolutely LOVE it. I am still learning and have a steep curve for fully being able to use its features but I find so much good about Drupal.
That said, this theming concept by RoopleThemes is extremely beneficial. That ease of laying content in differnet regions is what made my designing with Joomla so fun. Way to go and I look forward to this direction of theming!!!
IMCE
Is anyone else having an issue with iMCE and this theme. When I turn this theme on I lose the ability to browse for images using iMCE.
Drupal 6.0 Version ;?)
Is there any chance that you are at least experimenting with porting of this to Drupal 6.0 ?
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Svi smo mi zarobljenici svojih ličnih iskustva.
We are all prisoners of our own experiences.
Doh!
I can't believe it took us this long to find this thread! It's been a busy two weeks.
For the people with kind words about LiteJazz, thanks! We were hesitant to release it because we knew it still had some problems. But we were anxious to find out if there was an audience for this type of theme, and we've been pretty happy with the response.
The collapsible region concepts applied in LiteJazz are common in the Joomla template community, and the capabilities have always been there in Drupal. But few Drupal themes have taken advantage of the ability in this way. We don't think that it's revolutionary, and we're not sure why more Drupal themes don't do it. We got tired of waiting for someone to create themes like this for Drupal!
The grouped region concept doesn't work for every highly customized site, but it works very well for a lot of sites. And a good theme of this type can make creating and maintaining a professional-looking site a lot faster and easier, particularly for non-programmers. To paraphrase one blogger, the people who stand to benefit the most from an open-source CMS are the small business owners, little league coaches, and non-profit organization volunteers. For the most part, Drupal is out-of-reach for such users today. A well-thought-out theme can help close that gap.
Perhaps a step closer to revolutionary is the theme configuration form thanks to the ThemeSettingsAPI module. Configuring themes by editing PHP and CSS files is annoying for pros, and it's just too much to ask from a little league coach. We had hoped that this module would make it into the 6.0 core release.
Perhaps the only real revolution is that we're marketing ourselves. We don't see too much of that in the Drupal community.
We intend to support Drupal 6 as soon as possible. We probably won't go back to support 4.7.
If you've tried the LiteJazz theme and had problems, sorry (but we did warn you that it was an alpha release!) We've got a new release coming out in the next few days that addresses many of the issues reported on our user forum. Take a look at our site for details. We've also got a sneak preview of our next theme.
www.roopletheme.com
Nice looking template and
Nice looking template and good work overall. It smells of RocketTheme though :) If I were going to clone a template provider, I can't say I would do different as their work is very nice.
Could do worse!
Well we've heard that comment before, at least about LiteJazz. We're flattered by the comparison, because RocketTheme does amazing work, but we're not nearly that good yet. We hope that NewsFlash moves us closer to our own identity. We're looking forward to a day when other Drupal themes are compared with RoopleTheme!
www.roopletheme.com
Great work
Thank you Roople for making the great theme. Regarding the LiteJazz theme, there is no problem if one uses garland theme for admin.
I always visit joomlart.com, and there were many times I had tried to move to Joomlar because of their theme. But I could not make myself like Joomlar. Roopletheme.com is our hope!
Thanks again for the great work.
The NewsFlash Theme
New release: NewsFlash
www.roopletheme.com
Thanks so much!
Thanks so much again, now for the new "NewsFlash" theme for Drupal. It just rocks, keep up the great work!
I agree. You guys are doing
I agree. You guys are doing a fantastic job!
Great But is it Drupal-6.x compatible?
Great jobs folks,
But i want to ask if this theme is Drupal-6.x compatible?
If not can anyone tell me where to find a drupal6 themes
sample?
Great Community!
Sam.
in due time
Drupal 6 has not yet been released. Judging by the quality of even the alpha releases of the Roople themes, I'm pretty sure their themes will see a Drupal 6 version in due time.
In the plans
We spent a bit of time with 6.0, but we haven't done much work on converting our themes yet. It's a high priority for us, but it's mixed in there with a lot of other high priorities. I expect a lot of 6.0 themes to start showing up from the community over the next couple of months. Hopefully ours will be among them.
www.roopletheme.com
In regards to the LiteJazz
In regards to the LiteJazz theme I couldn't locate any information pertaining to the nature of it's license. The reason I ask is that I completely overhauled it last night replacing the header and footer designs with something a little more contemporary. I also added simpleMenu, a stretching dropshadow to the ui, signmaker support for auto generated graphics from text in any font, and auto reflections for images of the reflect.class.
Today I will be adding 3 more colors yellow, green and purple and removing the tables in place for css elements that collapse in the same way, tables=rear.
Anyways, what do i do with this thing once I am done, I want to release it to the community by I am not sure that is the nature of it's license and I don't want to step on any toes with my giant flipper feet.
I will pass the working url to a roopletheme member if they want and as I said I would really like to see this released under GPL as a solid example of (ugh.)2.0 style design which litejazz was a great foundation for.
GPL
They released LiteJazz here on drupal.org so it must be GPL as that's the only license allowed here.
Michelle
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Well that's good to know.
Well that's good to know.
looking forward to it leo
having checked out piratemesa.net I'm looking forward to the additions to lightjazz you describe above. IMO this is just the kind of theming drupal needs.
Like many, I too was originally seduced by joomla's apparent ease of use. I say apparent, because its quite deceptive. To use it "out of the box" with no changes, it's easier than drupal, no question (if only for the very good user guide). But the second you want to actually "do" something with it or customize it in any way drupal becomes the clear winner-- by ALOT. As steep as the learning curve for drupal is, I already can do more with drupal than I ever could with joomla. We won't even mention what a performance pig it is, LOL.
But I'm not, in any sense of the word a "designer" and I need all the help I can get to make it pretty. Drupal sites tend to look like "drupal" not because they can't look like anything else, but because the person deploying doesn't have the skills to make it look any different.
Developers aren't normally artists, so while they can change the structure they often don't do much with the appearance. Designers are primarily artists so while they can change the graphics and the css they can't really change the structure. The poor shnooks who aren't artists or developers load up garland or another canned theme and leave it completely as is. In the end, it doesn't really matter who does a drupal site (unless you're that rare combination of artist and developer or a business that can afford to hire both a designer and a developer), most of them all end up looking like drupal.
Yes, as one of the previous posters said it's just a theme, drupal can do this out of the box. However, this type of UI customizable theme will bring those innate abilities to the masses in a way that never would have been possible before and will probably bring drupal to a whole new group users.
As a refactored HF/UI engineer, let me just say for the millionth time in my career, that it doesn't really matter what a thing can do if the human beings that use it can't figure out how to get to actually do it.
Wow, that gives me the shivers. I used to bang my head against the wall almost every day chanting that phrase over and over and over in product team meetings as the engineers would repeatedly tell me "what's the big deal, it takes me 15 seconds to program a phone number" and I would try to explain that it was taking real people (called customers-- the human beings that didn't write the code) almost 30-60 minutes with a user manual! (this was back in the initial days of cell / cordless phone design). It wasn't until I actually filmed my usability studies so they could watch john and jane doe customer struggle with their phone... flipping pages back and forth in manuals... cursing under their breath... then progam the competitor's phone in 5 minutes... and then choose the competitor's phone as the one they would purchase in spite of it being priced at $50 more... that they got the message.
who cares if it can cook dinner, clean house, change oil, make coffee, or anything else... if i can't get it to do it for ME, LOL.
You nailed it on the head,
You nailed it on the head, as designers we bare the brunt of non savy client desires. The only portion of the website your client may understand is its marketability and beauty. Unfortunetly most clients want to see pop and hoopla to compete with the other neon glowing nightmare they are competing with hence we get stuck in the web 2.0 paradigm where the client focuses on graphic trends and can do nothing else until it is resolved.
Bringing a solid, web2 style theme to drupal will go along way to winning the hearts of people interested in design first which is good as we all know what happens when you try to make a good design do hard work, it just sits there, staring at you, mocking you.
Anyways, this is going to be a bit before its released as I dont want to cause more problems that it fixes and currently I am trying to figure out the best way to allow people to select from the already 170+ auto generated logos, there are a few more complex module dependent features i am trying to squeeze in there and its pretty brutal figuring out the best way to do most of this stuff.
As soon as I have a version i can trust wont ruin your day i will post a url to the in progress build but for now i don't even want people leaching it as I have yet to hear back from some of the property owners that will be included in the theme.
How about a round of applause for Roopletheme taking the steps to create a real theme design community by releasing some pretty solid stuff for free, thanks!
preview of "AcidJazz"
http://optimerawifi.net/
here is a limited preview of the soon to be released modified version of litejazz and this site is not live so only you drupalors can go look at it right now(seeding exclusive details, hot steamy action!), as it stands this preview only displays the limited graphic level design changes made and features none of the advanced features the full version will such as PNGfix, auto logos, text to graphicas, reflections, jquery animated menus, ajax menus, tabs and 5 new colors on top of the 3 currently supported(RGB), all of this will be supported via the themesettings api but I am still a little wonkey on the best way to implement this stuff the best way.. oh yeah you can choose between round ui corners or square ones and the drop shadow can be turned off..
Also, any advice on the best way to distribute modules with a theme as far as making sure the modules are installed and properly configured when the theme is enabled please post any urls or advice, this is confusing to me.
i have to sleep now.
subscribing
subscribing
How about this theme
How about this theme: http://www.radut.net. It uses concepts in Litejazz theme but no need for ThemeSettingsAPI Module. The theme validates XHTML 1.0 Strict / CSS 2 and can be fixed or fluid width. It is cross-browser compatible; works excellent in Firefox 2.0 and IE 6, IE 7, Opera 9, Netscape 8.
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The themesettings.api is
The themesettings.api is required for the logo system as well as being able to choose a host of other dynamic options including drop shadow type, size, distance, background colors, corner shapes, width, etc..
acidjazz is almost complete and I am currently at the second to last stage of implementing all the themesettings script and then i will move on to adding the IE5 styles so it doesn't look like rear in IE(yes, unfortunately this is still necessary).
The "choose a dynamically rendered logo" was a lot of work and I also needed to come to an agreement with the owner of said logos on a method of distribution. If there is anything of note from your theme that you would like added to the theme i am building feel free to let me know.
Currently there are the following color schemes but I am open to any other people would like to see as long as we don't go over say 25 colors as thats just to many images to distribute in my opinion.
Current colors:
red
blue
green
purple
pink
gold
yellow
brown
turquoise
that leaves about 15 more i would be willing to implement, if the color you want isn't easily describable just post the hexadecimal value (#fff000)
This thread has kind of become a project unto its own so please feel free to post anything you would really like to see in a free quality theme as I probably wont be cranking out another one for some time. This theme will already require 3 modules and a font pack to get the full meal deal so I would like to keep module dependencies to a minimum if possible.
How about this theme
How about this theme: http://www.radut.net. It uses concepts in Litejazz theme but no need for ThemeSettingsAPI Module. The theme validates XHTML 1.0 Strict / CSS 2 and can be fixed or fluid width. It is cross-browser compatible; works excellent in Firefox 2.0 and IE 6, IE 7, Opera 9, Netscape 8.
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Florian
Dr.Radut | Puzzle IT | EU Copyright Office | STReight
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littlejazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz rocks
well first i would like to say thanks a lot
i am a totaly newbee and i was able to get it on to drupal 5.5 lol
i am trying to change the looks
still having some probs with that like i said new at this
i am trying to get the navigation in place as it is on the demo
and i am trying to get the blue letters of
plus im trying to figure out how i can change the drupal text word for home lol
but this i got sofar and again im totlay new with no skils what so ever in prgramming or comps etc
http://1st-us-then-4u2.org/drupal-5.5/user
so if i am able to play with this i bet any one can
way to go
love it
and if there is any one there who can tell me to fix the things that i am trying?
winks
good job roople !
well dont know if i did this right?
im playing with the stuff ....
made a matrix drupal logo
and then i did go in the maintain css thing and changed some numbers
so now i got this as a ofline screen i like it maybe you do to? lol
http://1st-us-then-4u2.org/drupal-5.5/
dont know if i did that right though
and for the main thing im trying to get the drupal layout to look something like this :
http://1st-us-then-4u2.org/
(with main part 3 coloms or something simular to it)
like i said newbee
any one got tips? let me know
i realy love droople theme
lol
and yeah hope to get this in the 6 version to when its out
Hey ho, designers at last
This is a duplicate post of this post in the Roople Forum:
http://www.roopletheme.com/forum/index.php?topic=378.0
But it cannot be said often enough. Being a designer also and hoping and soon trusting Drupal will start looking good one day...
(And actively contributing ;) )
I gotta finally write this.
The efforts of roopletheme cannot be rated high enough. You have set a very high standard - the themes are worked out to the last detail, run smoothly in all browsers (which is not too common in drupal - even drupal.org renders very strangely in IE6, not to speak of Garland =8-0 ).
The configuration option one can choose in the theme configuration are not too much, not too little. What I like especially is the way it is done: instead of creating obnoxious css files and even in files folder (like Garland), you have written some Variables in the header section which take options like fixed page width or whatever. The advantages of that concept shine thhrough when one wants to get rid of it: one can still write everything into styles.cxs and just delete the variable stuff in the header.
This is all very professional. I don't mind the somewhat commercial way you introduce yourself on your Website (I think Bealestreet ist the most that way). I would not even mind if rooplethemes weren't free but one had to pay a bit for it.
Drupal is still lacking professional Design and theming desparately - so you have set a very high standard. Clever move to just not use Drupals forum module. Well - it would be even nicer if one could see it here styled and pimped very nicely. With michelles initiative we gonna be there some day Wink )
Only thing that's a bit of a pity is that there are only three themes, I'd love to see more of your work. Even If I had to pay for it.
Rock on!
I'm happy being miserable
Great Theme!
Best theme out there for free. So why the complaints? No Problems with the themes they make.
Litejazz as base theme...
I use litejazz as base theme to porting joomla templates as drupal theme...
take a look of my drupal site that looks like joomla...
http://cf.isgreat.org
http://times.cmsindo.com
http://times.cmsindo.com/dark
http://gavick.isgreat.org
Big thank's to roopletheme.com!
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