Zero Point

Last updated March 31, 2010. Created by Florian on July 2, 2009.
Edited by hape, SLIU, Dave Reid, jbrauer. Log in to edit this page.

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Layout features
Theme settings
Module support
Sidebars dimmensions
Using static or SuckerFish drop-down menu
Theme's icons
Custom folder

Zero Point is the most advanced theme developed by physicians to prove the pleasure of Drupal theming. It is a clean business theme optimized for e-commerce with Ubercart.

The initial version of the theme was designed for Eureko Romania and it was further developed to be ideal for a wide range of sites, from blogs to corporate sites. Zero Point comes in 7 colour styles and advanced theme settings features. It validates XHTML 1.0 Strict /CSS 2, and it is cross-browser compatible. Live multilingual demos of different theme's colors and variations at: EUREKO, ECOimm, Boaz Broker, to name a few.

The Zero Point project page is the place to download the last official release and go to get help, submit feature requests, and report bugs. Before you post to the issue queue be sure to check that the issue or bug you want to report hasn't already been reported and/or fixed. Please, provide a detailed explanation (link, screenshots, etc) of the issue you would like help with or the bug that you have found.

Layout features

1, 2, or 3 column layout with adaptive width based on "The Jello Mold Piefecta Layout";
17+1 collapsible block regions;
7 colour styles;
built-in IE transparent PNG fix;
jQuery CSS image preload (optional);
RTL support;
Fixed / Variable width sidebars (optional);
Round corners for page elements and primary menu (optional);
Block icons (optional);
Page icons (optional);
SuckerFish Drop-down primary links menu (optional);
Primary links menu position (center, left, right);
Helpful body classes (unique classes for each page, term, website section, browser, etc.);
Full breadcrumb;
Works perfect in Multilingual installations.

Advanced theme settings features

In order to fine-tune Zero Point, go to yoursite.com/admin/build/themes/settings/zeropoint

Layout settings

Style - Choose a colour palette from 7 options: Zero Point (default), Sky, Nature, Ivy, Ink, Sangue and Lime. More colour options to come.
Layout width - Adaptive width, fluid width and fixed width.
Sidebars' layout - Fixed width sidebars or variable width sidebars (wide or narrow).
Themed blocks option.
Block icons - Choose between none, 32x32 pixel icons and 48x48 pixels icons.
Page icons - Choose a layout with or without page icons.
Menu style - Two-level Static or SuckerFish drop-down menu.
Menu position - Center, left or right.
Rounded corners - Option to have rounded corners in all browsers but IE.
Header image rotator
jQuery CSS image preload - Choose a colour.

General settings

Mission statement - Display mission statement only on front page or on all pages;
Display Breadcrumb;
Username - Display "not verified" for unregistered usernames;
Search results - Customize what should be displayed on the search results page.

Node settings

Author & date - display author's username and/or date posted;
Taxonomy terms - How to display (or not) vocabularies and category terms.

Search engine optimization (SEO) settings

Page titles - Format the title that displays in the browser's title bar;
Meta tags.

Module support

This theme can support virtually any module. The design has been optimised and it has been heavily tested for the following modules: AdSense, Advanced Forum, Blockquotes, CAPTCHA, CCK, Fivestar, Gallerix, Gallery Assist, Google_cse, Google_groups, Gmaplocation, i18n, Image, ImageCache, Panels, Pathauto, Lightbox2, Logintoboggan, Print, Simplenews, Thickbox, ÜBERCART, Views, Wysiwyg (TinyMCE and FCKeditor), Weather.

Sidebars dimensions

The sidebars layout switch in theme settings allows to choice fixed or variable width sidebars. The maximum with available for sidebars is as follow:

| left | right | both ...|
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| 250 | 300 | 160-234 | Variable asyimmetrical sidebars (wide)
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| 160 | 234 | 160-234 | Fixed asyimmetrical sidebars (wide)
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| 230 | 280 | 140-214 | Variable asyimmetrical sidebars (narrow)
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| 140 | 214 | 140-214 | Fixed asyimmetrical sidebars (narrow)
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| 155 | 155 | 155-155 | Equal width sidebars (custom)
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Note: Do not exceed the available width (especially with images) or IE6 will not behave so the sidebars may drop.

Using static or SuckerFish drop-down menu

The menu can either be a two-level static menu or a suckerfish drop-down menu.

Out of the box the theme use the static menu. If you go to /admin/build/menu/settings and choose the source for the primary links and the source for the secondary links to be primary links then secondary links will display the appropriate second level of your navigation hierarchy. This setting offer to easy customize the look of each menu item, if desired.

Choose "Suckerfish" to enable support for Suckerfish drop menus.
Note: Go to /admin/build/menu and expand all parents in your primary menu.

The menu position left (default), center or right can be selected using the "menu position" selector in the theme's setting page.

KNOWN ISSUES: In order to avoid Opera's rendering problems, SuckerFish position can be only left or right.

Theme's icons

There are options to select page icons and block icons. It is possible to display only some from the block icons. To do that the respective block title must be disabled from the blocks page.

Custom folder

Zero Point comes with a _custom folder and a custom-style.css file in it. This approach allows you to customize the look and feel of the theme without changing the theme's css files. When updating the code of the theme just upload all the theme files but the _custom folder. There are also important clues in custom-style.css about customization.