Zen

Last updated June 30, 2011. Created by JohnAlbin on November 18, 2007.
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For many people, Zen is the ultimate starting theme for Drupal. If you are building your own standards-compliant theme, you will find it much easier to start with Zen than to start with Garland or Bluemarine. This theme has LOTs of documentation in the form of code comments for both the PHP (template.php) and HTML (page.tpl.php, node.tpl.php).

Why should you use Zen? And why should you create your theme as a Zen sub-theme as opposed to just modifying an existing theme? Lots of reasons. You can also read several themer’s testimonials.

Besides this documentation, additional resources can be found…

Comments

Outdated links?

Posted by kristofer on April 8, 2011 at 9:41am

Aren't videos/podcasts (Drupal School: getting started with Zen and Lullabot podcast about the Zen theme for Drupal 5) for Zen for Drupal 5 a bit outdated?

In other sections of the Zen documentation, it says: "Drupal 5 is no longer supported."

outdated video

Posted by phildogo on August 11, 2011 at 11:25pm

As someone just getting started i noticed that most of the video tutorials are for version 5. I am thankful that these videos are there at all but it would be nice to see some updates for 7.x . So far this seems like the most robust and well supported CMS around. I look forward to contributing soon.

Hal

Zen 7.x

Posted by Ken19144 on September 27, 2011 at 10:17pm

There should be some videos on Youtube posted.

I couldn't find any videos on

Posted by Hussamamer on October 23, 2011 at 12:58pm

I couldn't find any videos on youtube!

Cek Magdurlari

Posted by cekmagdurlari on October 21, 2011 at 6:58pm

i'm building a site now using AdaptiveTheme. Having used Zen on drupal 6, AdaptiveTheme feels a bit more cutting edge with all the latest web standards. Cek Magdurlari

http://www.cekmagdurlari.com/

Zen is an awesome theme for

Posted by brianbaileyj on November 14, 2011 at 3:14pm

Zen is an awesome theme for drupal blogs. I use them in most of my blogs..

Hello, I have one simple

Posted by elabdal83 on November 21, 2011 at 7:49pm

Hello,

I have one simple question:

In fact, I created a site locally, starting on the Zen theme as a base. I have everything built by changing css and created blocks on the right side column.

My problem is that when I installed drupal on the host and I transferred my theme, all the titles of the blocks in the right column are not displayed and not displayed as css style I worked locally. Knowing everything is transferred, no problem.

Has anyone had this problem already? Could you help me please?

Thank you in advance.