By kodama on

I don't see this theme listed anywhere (even under the phptemplates), and the forum is totally different and (to me) they are both much much better than the other ones....

I have been digging around the forums for answers, but searching for terms like "forum" and "theme" give a gazillion hits.

Thanks!

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Poolio commented

is not publicly available.

Put your money where your mouth is!

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sepeck commented

drupal.org's theme name is 'blue beach' and no it is not available. Please search for numerous discussions regarding this issue.

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kodama commented

Thanks for the info on the theme.

What about the forum?

It seems small and strange in the default install, but on this site it looks fine?

Thanks again!

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Dublin Drupaller commented

Hi Kodama...

i discovered a little trick with styling a forum to look like this...

Easy to implement if you're using a phptemplate based theme...i.e. open up your comment.tlp.php file and wrap you're comments in a fieldset tag...it will give comments that curly container look that drupal has in IE.

Dub

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kodama commented

Thanks!

I'm at the evaluation stage right now, and I'm finding it cheesey how the Drupal Devs save the best work for their site and have a crappy attitude when anyone asks about it.

Like you're a jerk because you want your site to look good, and you're a bum if you don't know CSS!

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jesusphreak commented

kodoma, I'm sure you saying that about the devs makes them want to RUSH that theme out to you.

They made Drupal. Don't complain about them not wanting to provide a them custom-made for their site.

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gnat commented

The Friends Electric Theme is like drupal.org's. Here's a bit from its creator (who also built bluebeach, the drupal theme).

The theme was mainly created to answer the repetitive questions about Drupal.org's own theme, Bluebeach. FriendsElectric is similar to Bluebeach under the hood, but is different visually.

so all you really need to do is edit the css, which you should do anyway no matter what theme you use. its not an issue of being a jerk either, design is what makes a site unique, and drupal.org should be different than all of the other drupal based sites out there. I can't tell you how many sites out there look exactly like the old drupal.org xtemplate design, which was also shipped as the default theme.

Also, look around the Drupal Theme Garden for more themes (though not all of those are available either).

best

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Steven commented

I am the author of the Bluebeach theme. Myself and many others here believe Bluebeach serves Drupal better as a marketing/brand theme than a public theme. Aside from developing Drupal, we have to make good work of presenting it well to others.

Read my last explanation about this for more info.
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If you have a problem, please search before posting a question.

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sepeck commented

I have searched and searched my inital answer. I sincerly apologize for any implied critism of you I may have implied in my inital answer to your request. I shall try very hard to remember that you don't like me and stay away in the future.

Please let me know how I may avoid insulting you in the future so that I may continue to donate my spare time to Open Source projects with a clean conscience.

On a more serious note :)

I don't think that Drupal developers are 'keeping' the best for themselves. You are free to design your own. You are free to pay someone to design one for you if you are unable to design one. You are free to use the 20 or so contributed themes if you don't know how to use them.

If the free theme's available for your use do not suit you, you are free to modify them to suit you. You are free to ask for assistence which has already been provided to you for free.

Oddly enough, the contributor (and developer) of the theme Blue Beach is free to not release a theme that is currently this Open Source software's 'brand image'. He has indiciated that this theme is not a general use design. It is very specifically built for use on Drupal.org. The last theme for Drupal was readily available and really dilluted the image of drupal.org significantly by being used elsewhere.

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kodama commented

Ok I'm off my theme period :-D

I appologize for a bad newbie post....

Still, I would love to see some nice themes made at the same level as Blue Beach or Theme Garden.

And no, I don't know how to make my own....

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sepeck commented

Folks are working on it. Your best bet is to start with Friends or Box_grey and the theme guide. I do not know php or css well, but pick at bits and pieces of it as I need it. Quite a few of the theme garden themes are available.

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kodama commented

Thanks again for the replies and sorry again, on a constant midol trip from now on.

Similar to legal 'X' actually...

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cdoctor commented

It is not unreasonable to expect open source to be open to the public.

Drupal is a wonderful CMS tool.

For a Drupal _____, to decide it is best to hide a theme is childish and anal. Do Not appoligize to this _____.

The Drupal site is, among other things, a marketing device for promoting Drupal technology. This is what you can do if you adopt Drupal. Look and see how easy it is.

My advise to this attitude of hiding or protecting, how a great Drupal theme was created: GROW UP !
A message from the real world: Your not protecting anything. Learn from the mistakes of Mambo.

In the meantime I and tens of thousands of others appreciate the hard work of other Drupal contributors who worked thousand of hours developing, perfecting and then freely sharing the great Drupal technology with all.

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sepeck commented

Hey now, with your three day old account, please lets not start off calling people names and lecturing to folks all right? join in and participate some in the community to get a feel for how we all work together instead. Thanks.

Drupal is not 'hiding' the theme. It is protecting the 'look and feel', the identity of Drupal.org. This is a valid and necessary approach. The previous theme, Blue Marine, became the default theme for a huge percentage of Drupal based sites. So much so, that it was difficult to know if you were actually on Drupal.org when looking at new sites. If you want the underlying engine of Blue Beach, then feel free to download Friends Electric. It has more extensive work to make it suitable and more compliant then Blue Beach. It was also written by the same person who did Drupal.org. There is even a video on it.

The current theme was donated to Drupal.org. The time and effort was donated to carefully craft a look that was not any other site, so that when surfing the web, Drupal.org would be instantly recognizable as itself. It also has several custonizations that are specific to Drupal.org and would make it unsuitable as an overall generic theme.

There is even a note in the handbook about this and covers the modules used on Drupal.org.
http://drupal.org/node/27367

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