By isaachorton on

Ive been hard at work customizing the theme for first drupal contribution.
I havent yet received CVS access or my password doesnt work, so I thought id just post it here for everyone for now.
feedback welcomed.
Download Miniml Theme Here....
Click here for a mini-screenshot
View a working example here:
http://blog.mixdv.com/
http://drupal.brandform.net/

Features:

  • phplayersmenu - javascript
  • random image rotator - just put images inside the "images/header" directory and they will dynamically be rotated.
  • send url by email - toggle show/hide(top left icon)
  • built-in search - toggle show/hide(top left icon)
  • print function built in (top left icon)
  • heavily customized CSS
  • custom $links buttons
  • fixed-width layout - crossbrowser friendly

    • Instructions:

    1. unzip and rename folder to "miniml" or make sure it is named miniml (some images reference the folder name)
    2. upload to your server in the /themes directory
    3. turn on by activating in admin/themes
    4. NOTE: You MUST have at least 1 link in each block that you activate in the admin. the phplayerstreemenu appears to break the page for an unknown reason if you turn on a block that is empty. If you do enable a block and get an error, just go into the database and turn off the blocks in question, then reload the admin/block page and enable from there.

    that should be it.... let me know if you have any problems installing.

    ⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x, Drupal 4.7.x

    Comments

    gopher’s picture

    gopher commented

    I really like the look of this theme, good job. I'll install it later and test it out. I only wish it would validate though.

    clo75’s picture

    clo75 commented

    simple and elegant, thank you for your contribution

    morphir’s picture

    morphir commented

    This looked very nice! Keep up the good work mate ;)

    By the way: is it ment as a "blog-theme"?

    isaachorton’s picture

    isaachorton commented

    sure it can be for a blog.... im not sure what you mean by blog theme? basically its a custom theme designed to work with most modules and has lots of little touches to the css and javascript which i think should make a great starting point for any drupal site.
    one of the major accomplishments of this theme that i havent seen elsewhere is a cleanly presented fixed width layout that stays mostly intact even with all the modules and admin content.

    I am working on getting it to validate. just a few touches here and there! One of the issues in 4.7 is that the html filter breaks self closing tags and adds to the slew of validation errors to sort through. Once i get it finished, ill post an update...

    ica’s picture

    ica commented

    Very nice and thanks! feature rich...
    I have some questions

    i noticed whole file is =2.2 MB that is more than th Drupal core itself
    I can see that look and features requires some size load
    [image] folder =1MB
    [phpplayers] folder=1.1MB

    - is there any file/folder unnecessary to delete and slim the theme?

    also looking trough [phpplayers] files it seems more feature than what is currently configureable on Drupal

    - could it be possible configure full features via drupal admin?
    -is there a hack tutorial/tips on this?

    - have you considered and could it be viable with the sligthty different option (js/toogle) ~with a tiny (16kb) of moofx? ~instead of phpplayers

    http://moofx.mad4milk.net/
    http://moofx.mad4milk.net/tests.html

    regards

    isaachorton’s picture

    isaachorton commented

    yep ica you nailed it on the head with the file size.
    its something i was going to try to slim down before i posted this as there is ALOT of unneccesary files included... especially in the phplayersmenu directory... i left this untouched. (it would be great if someone wanted to help with the trimming down of unneccesary files and post it here!)

    to be honest im not that happy with the phplayersmenu js. its too bulky and hard to deal with customizations... i love moofx, but what im using the phplayersmenu for is the treemenu... pretty sure theres no function for that in moofx.

    Im also working on putting more of the configuration functions into the drupal admin so they can be edited from there.

    ica’s picture

    ica commented

    yes -moo.fx has no tree style .. but it is still cool

    I prefer child with -intend u get the more or less sensible 'tree -like' menu;

    [ item ]
    ...[ 1st child item ]
    ...[ 2nd child item ]
    (ignore the dots)

    not like line images -imo i dont like tree menus they look too 'techie' busy like;

    [ item ]
    |_[ 1st child item ]
    |_[ 2nd child item

    1st option above would be possible with moo on its css -i presume (no coder myself)

    I correct myself moo.fx is actually 3k not 16k
    that is err... 366 times smaller than 1.1MB phplayersmenu!
    + you get other fancy options like on the test page (like toggle seach/mail on your theme possible with moo.fx too i presume)
    http://moofx.mad4milk.net/tests.html

    1 downside! despite i like much
    you theme send_url, print, built in search...

    both phplayersmenu & moo.fx does not work when browsers javascript (not java) option turned off since they are based on javascript -check out with your sites!

    ~ solution would be
    an option which will work both Javascript option of browsers turned on + turned off

    example i found here on flickr
    roll over on the the links on the right
    -ajedmonds' photostream
    + Binary Bonsai (Pool)
    + Misc (Set)

    http://flickr.com/photos/49968582@N00/81323665/in/pool-binarybonsai/

    your browser's javascript option turned on (i assume this 'cos your theme works with it
    -if you turn it off and revisit or (refresh)

    http://flickr.com/photos/49968582@N00/81323665/in/pool-binarybonsai/

    same links work -but differently javascript on/off

    freyja’s picture

    freyja commented

    Thank you so much Isaac for this great theme, just what I was looking for! But I have some troubles with it...for example..the pictures in the header? what do they have to be named to appear ? And the name DRUPAL always apears on top of the header image and is a link to "home" but where do I change this to the name of my page?
    I'm working on www.annasilfa.com right now, manged to put it in Icelandic and I really like how drupal works...but there are still tons of things to learn :)

    isaachorton’s picture

    isaachorton commented

    the drupal "name" is a transparent gif graphic. this uses the default logo feature in drupal administration. just click on the configure link for the miniml theme(in admin/themes) and upload your new logo image. make sure that you use a transparent png or gif file so that the background shows through... neat huh?