By dreed47 on

I've taken a stab at porting a couple of Open Source Web Designs to Drupal. The first is a design called Simplex. It's a fixed width 2 column design. The second is a design called leaves on oswd.org but I've called it Burnt since there is already a theme called Leaves in the repository. Burnt is a fixed width 3 column design. Both are what I would call minimalist designs.

Screenshot for Simplex

Screenshot for Burnt

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sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

Hi Nice work, Actually those themes were in my wishlist. As I don't have time these days, I coudn't port to drupal.

Keep it Up. Cheers, Sunny

Sunny                      
www.gleez.com | www.sandeepone.com

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

Nice clean themes. Keep it up!

Thanks for the hard work.

txcrew

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venkat-rk commented

Lovely themes. Thanks for your work.

kim-werker’s picture

kim-werker commented

These are lovely. Thanks so much!

Kim
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sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

As a qucik review i found you're using <?php print path_to_theme(); ?> it won't work with the latest head.
have a look http://drupal.org/node/25297

at line 38 in page.tpl.php used "td id="sidebar-left"" tag, the rest of the code in div tags only 1 tag in td. plese go through it.

edit:themes/simplex2/layout.css not found. layoyt.css wasn't there in the directory

I have observed these in simplex theme.

Sunny                      
www.gleez.com | www.sandeepone.com

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dreed47 commented

Very perceptive sangamreddi. Thanks for the feedback. I had actually already applied a fix for the path_to_theme issue. I noticed the exra td tag a while ago but I thought I already fixed it. My bad :(

Both items are now fixed and commited.

Again, thanks for the review. Let me know if you see anything else or have any other suggestions. I've begun to use the Simplex template on a private family-based site and it seems to be working well.

sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

Thank you Der.
The template.php file dosen't require, the basic regions are there in the phptemplaete engine, if we need to add extra regions then we need to define those regions in template.php.

Secondly for the site name U can use pseudo elements in the css. I mean can we use, hope so not tested.

Thanks for the great work.

Sunny                      
www.gleez.com | www.sandeepone.com

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dreed47 commented

I know the template.php is not required but I was trying to stop people from assigning blocks to the right sidebar since the theme doesn't support it. I know this works in 4.7 but I don't know how 4.6 handles them, my guess is that it's going to display all the defaults anyway.

Good point about the pseudo elements but I didn't think they worked in Netscape. I could be wrond though.

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sepeck commented

Rather then trying to prevent people from assigning blocks to the right sidebar, include the right sidebar variable in your page.tpl.php in/under the left_sidebar section. This way as people switch themes they 'fail gracefully' rather then completly.

This is what I did in a 4.6 theme that is two column only.

<div id="sidebar">                               <!-- print left sidebar -->
<?php print $sidebar_left ?>

<?php if ($sidebar_right != ""): ?>
  <?php print $sidebar_right ?>         <!-- print right sidebar if any blocks enabled -->
<?php endif; ?>   
</div>

So you will notice that if anyone puts blocks on the right side, then it will fall under the left sidebar blocks. I only declared one sidebar DIV tag as it was a two column design only.

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dreed47 commented

Thanks Steven. I think this is a good solution for 4.6 but in 4.7 I would rather not even show the option to show blocks on the right sidebar. I think it invites a lot of support questions from people trying to get blocks to show on the right and they keep showing up on the left.

Right now I have both 4.6 and 4.7 branch tags on the latest checked in source. If there's a strong need to maintain a separate 4.6 branched version of the source I'll put this change into the 4.6 version.

Thanks

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holger commented

Is there also a Version for Drupal 4.7 available?

Great Work!

with kind regards, holger

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dreed47 commented

Both of these themes should work on both 4.6 and 4.7. I actually ported them on a 4.7 system. I am in the process of implementing the Simplex theme on one of my 4.6 systems and it seems to be working fine.

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paulap commented

Hi!

I have print $search_box in my page template, but it doesn't show the search dialog (instead i get a "1"). I use 4.6.

Any ideas?

thx
paulap

Janet Kellman’s picture

Janet Kellman commented

Thanks to der for porting designs!
But I have same problem. How we can fix this ?
Also, please port http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3569 if possible :)

thanks.

Janet Kellman, software reviews

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the full octave commented

good work der.

Paul

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Graphic Designer.
New to Drupal and loving it large.

amirtaiar’s picture

amirtaiar commented

very nice themes, clean.
I wish they will be a rtl theme...
I dont know how to do it.

Managing Partner at Reasonat