Five new Drupal themes

By dreed47 on 19 Feb 2006 at 22:43 UTC

While looking for designs for a couple of my private Drupal sites I went to the effort to create Drupal themes from a few designs found on Open Web Designs (and one WordPress theme). I've contributed these back to the Drupal community. For the most part they are complete with respect to the most common Drupal components although they may need tweeked in some of the admin views.

The first three are simple/minimalist designs and the last two are a little more complex.

Blue Bars Theme - screenshot here
Burnt Theme - screenshot here
Simplex Theme - screenshot here
Sharepoint-like Theme - screenshot here
Internet Jobs Theme - screenshot here

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Thank You!! Those are

colorado commented 19 February 2006 at 22:58

Thank You!! Those are terrific!!

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this is amazing

philipk commented 19 February 2006 at 23:13

you are a star!

burnt looks lovely :)

Big Thanks,

KimaJako commented 17 June 2006 at 16:36

We use "blue bars" for our many blog customers,
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blue + yellow

chx commented 19 February 2006 at 23:26

this color combination is my long time favorite (the sharepoint like).
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Yeah, Whoever did it in

handelaar commented 21 February 2006 at 17:17

Yeah,

Whoever did it in Comic Sans wants shooting though :-)

to-each-his-own

dreed47 commented 21 February 2006 at 17:37

It wouldn't have been my choice but I didn't design it I just ported it (and didn't want to take the time to change it). But hey, patches are welcomed :-)

delete comic sans

Bèr Kessels commented 22 February 2006 at 13:42

if you don't really care about others, you should just delete comic sans from your system alltogether. It saves you a lot of nausea :)

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Drupal themes

Ludwig commented 19 February 2006 at 23:36

Keep it up der. This is what Drupal needs, people to generate lots more themes! Nice work.

RobRoy commented 20 February 2006 at 00:15

Excellent!

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very nice!

Christoph C. Cemper commented 20 February 2006 at 08:27

Thanks for these... my favorite is the internet jobs theme

christoph

Very nice.

Soong-1 commented 20 February 2006 at 09:52

Very nice.

I'm trying out Burnt but under the site name/slogan is the number 1, for some reason. Turning off the search box turns it into a number 0. No idea why it's there.

Any ideas?

Because missing

tomsolo commented 20 February 2006 at 11:40

search forms elements and wrong code

the quick solution:

download blumarine phptemplate
http://drupal.org/project/bluemarine

open blumarine page.tpl.php
copy lines 24 to 29

replace Burnt page.tpl.php in line 21 code

and manage theme style css:
create
#header .form-text and #header .form-submit

and define whatever u want.

Cool, thanks.

Soong-1 commented 20 February 2006 at 13:37

Cool, thanks.

And if you're still feeling helpful, any chance you know how to get rid of the line breaks that appear when you start a new paragraph? I wouldn't mind them but on the forum it looks messy.

Cheers!

in style.css

tomsolo commented 20 February 2006 at 14:32

delete line 145...

cheers

correct fix for 4.6

dreed47 commented 20 February 2006 at 15:20

Thanks for the fix tomsolo. I tested these only minimally on 4.6 so I'm not surprised I missed this one. A patch has been committed to fix this.

Note to anyone following this thread. This fix is NOT needed for 4.7.

Thank u!

Stefanos Karagos commented 20 February 2006 at 11:23

Thank you for sharing!
Drupal always needs more quaality themes

keepp up the good work!
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Great Themes

ossfi commented 20 February 2006 at 13:48

Thanks for your effort. I like the Simplex theme very much.

Drupal Layouts and Themes

Fabio.Pedrazzoli commented 20 February 2006 at 14:20

Hi,
great work, nice themes, expecially Burnt theme (i think)
My society would like to contribute to Drupal Project creating some Drupal themes too.
We would be glad to produce some possible Layouts (as images, ie. psd), that should be "assembled" by some other low-level skilled Drupal volunteer and would become full Drupal themes (we also are skilled in low-level php-mysql but at the moment we unfortunately haven't time avaliable for such activity).
Is there a place in drupal.org (ie. a specific forum thread) where we could cooperate in this way to produce some new Drupal themes?

Thanks in advance

For further info on who we are and what we do:
bee-side.com
(only Italian lang for now, sorry for that)
We are a web agency and applications service provider
(I hope the url to my society website doesn't hurt anyone, I published it just for having an idea about who we are and what we could do for this topic, if it creates some problem please tell me and I'll remove it.

Cheers
Fabio

Willing and Able

bradlis7 commented 20 February 2006 at 16:57

I would be willing to add themes, but I have low artistic abilities and creativity. I'm sure there are many other drupal users as well who are willing and able to help out in this way. I would suggest just creating a forum topic and posting a link to screenshots of ideas.

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In that case, maybe you

Duplika commented 20 February 2006 at 17:40

In that case, maybe you could check the themes at OSWD or OWD and try to port them :)
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good idea

dreed47 commented 20 February 2006 at 22:39

Just opened a forum topic with a few from my own whishlist. Feel free to add yours to this list of potentials.

nice! thank you

kae commented 20 February 2006 at 19:24

the "fancy" theme contributed in Jan. is excellent.

This community never stops

bryansd commented 20 February 2006 at 20:31

This community never stops to amaze me! Six months ago I was down about not enough open source themes available for Drupal. Especially when you compare Drupal with the themes that are available in Wordpress. Today...I feel like it may just be time to drop my Wordpress blog and move it over to Drupal.

When things slow down I'd like to work on providing a theme of my own. Until that fateful day...I want to thank those that just don't talk about doing something, but actually do it.

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You are a star ....

kbahey commented 20 February 2006 at 21:15

One of the major complaints about Drupal is the limited selection of good looking themes.

Please do more and more.

If you can add more that are fluid 3 columns, that would be much appreciated.

Keep up the good work.
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fluid is the key

alaa commented 21 February 2006 at 16:17

yep, fixed width layouts are bad for people who have to use large fonts and don't work well when you don't have complete control over content (like any community website).

not to mention nasty little things like form elements overlapping side bars etc.

we certainly need more 3 column fluid designs
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any wish list themes

dreed47 commented 21 February 2006 at 17:52

If you have any 2 or 3 column fluid designs that you would like to see ported to Drupal add them to this thread.

Blue Bars

Bahattee commented 21 February 2006 at 06:55

OMG! Blue Bars is so minimalistic and so awsome! I just love it!

Hey! You stole all the good

sepeck commented 21 February 2006 at 19:19

Hey! You stole all the good looking ones I was going to do. Good job. :)

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BURNT

philipk commented 22 February 2006 at 00:15

Does anyone else find that the ADMIN section on the BURNT theme doesnt include the side menu....

by design

dreed47 commented 22 February 2006 at 01:02

It puposely gets rid of the right sidebar to allow extra room for the admin views. If you're putting your navigation on the right sidebar you can always change the page.tpl.php and the style.css to surpress the left sidebar instead or don't surpress either but then you'll have to address the challenge of theming the admin view to fit in a narrow center column. Or you could just use the sections module to view the admin views in an all together different theme that has more room for the admin views. It's all about trade-offs.

At the very least I could probably change it to show BOTH sidebars on the left when in an admin view that way you don't lose access to important navigation blocks.

Supressing the sidebar

heine commented 22 February 2006 at 06:50

Instead of supressing the right-side bar I prefer to append right-sided blocks to the left sidebar.

Simply printing the contents of $sidebar_right inside the sidebar-left div (depending on your theme) will do the job.

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done

dreed47 commented 22 February 2006 at 13:32

done. See this and other fixes below.

And of course

heine commented 22 February 2006 at 13:39

Forgot to say: Great job, der. Thanks.

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some updates/fixes applied

dreed47 commented 22 February 2006 at 17:07

FYI I've applied some updates and fixes to some of the themes.

Burnt - search box now works on 4.6
Burnt - changed to show right sidebar on the left when in admin section
Simplex - changed to show right blocks on left sidebar (since theme doesn't support the right sidebar)
Sharepoint_like - changed to show right blocks on left sidebar (since theme doesn't support the right sidebar)
Internet_Jobs - fixed float problem with IE in 4.6

(update - 2/22)

also made the following updates today.

Blue_Bars - 4.7 version - re-themed admin/theme page to fit in a narrower column
Burnt - 4.7 version - re-themed admin/theme page .....
Simplex - 4.7 version - re-themed admin/theme page .....
Internet_Jobs - 4.7 version - re-themed admin/theme page .....

This is great stuff, David!

merlinofchaos commented 22 February 2006 at 18:37

This is great stuff, David! These all look great!

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Let's create more Drupal themes based on openwebdesign layouts

mdroste commented 23 February 2006 at 18:33

Today I relaunched my site www.swf-info.de (within 3 hours) with a customized version of the Burnt theme from der. In my oppinion it's a great idea of der to use designs from Open Web Designs.

There are so many good looking designs. And for all of us who are not so great visual designer, this Open Source Designs are a great opportunity to build great Drupal themes.

Let's do it!

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Let's coordinate it

heine commented 23 February 2006 at 18:52

Good idea: let's coordinate this in http://drupal.org/node/50428
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OK - but how?

mdroste commented 23 February 2006 at 20:36

Who will make which port? Maybe there is a need for a new cvs project for this work?

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Whoever gets it done first

sepeck commented 23 February 2006 at 20:42

Whoever gets it done first or you can announce which you are working on. Once a theme is done it can be checked into CVS and then a new project will be created and automatically show up on the correct page.

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at last count

dreed47 commented 23 February 2006 at 21:33

At last count there are 19 designs suggested and 6 of the 19 appear to have a volunteer working on it.

Leaves1 - Heine
NoProb - bradlis7
Grass Stains - Josh B
Almost Spring - m1ngsheng
Branches - m1ngsheng
Channel Nine - me

mv m1ngsheng "Rjae Easton"

Rjae Easton commented 25 February 2006 at 00:30

fyi - i renamed my account to my name.

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Thanks!

jsimonis commented 26 February 2006 at 02:06

I love the new themes.

Besides testing, this is one area I can help out with. I'm not a program coder, and only partially know PHP. However, I've been doing design for both the web and print for years.

I'm hoping to make some more themes one of these days and give them back to the community. Maybe sometime in the next few months I can get some done.

Since I've not done this before-- how do we go about sharing these back with the Drupal communtiy? Is there someone we contact?

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Either request a CVS account

sepeck commented 26 February 2006 at 02:56

Either request a CVS account and contribute them yourself or ask someone else to commit them to cvs on your behalf.

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Thanks! I'll remember

jsimonis commented 26 February 2006 at 03:31

Thanks! I'll remember that.

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If...Else Theme a day

freyquency commented 28 February 2006 at 23:54

I dunno if this would interest anyone, but someone did "theme-a-day" for wordpress, all GPL:

http://ifelse.co.uk/archives/2006/02/21/a-theme-a-day/

Some of them are better than others, and I'm considering porting a couple.

Those Themes look good..

alanburke commented 3 March 2006 at 19:57

It certainly wouldn't hurt having them available for Drupal.

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I like the "Internet Center" theme a lot.

netbjarne commented 3 March 2006 at 18:43

I just want to thank 'der' for the Internet Center theme at http://drupal.org/node/52018 - Its a very nice theme, having a somewhat different layout than most drupal themes.

Nice work!

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I'm really liking the Burnt

Soong-1 commented 6 March 2006 at 19:00

I'm really liking the Burnt theme. It's what I'm using. However, the forum could do with a little spicing up! Any chance of working a bit of magic on that? :(I'd try but I'm crap)

It's all just a bit messy at the moment, regarding the forum/comments. Apart from that, sweeeet.

EXCELLENT!!!

Marc Bijl commented 29 March 2006 at 15:27

I've been looking for a neat administration theme quite a while now, so I'm very, very happy with the burnt theme: it's simply brilliant for that purpose! Made some changes in css to get it a bit more fluid (mainly because of dba module), and now it looks great! Many thanks (:

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