By Baudesign on

Hi everyone,

I have been testing Drupal for a few days now, and I must admit that I am quite impressed by its possibilities. However, I have not been able to find a single theme that works perfectly out of the box. Spreadfirefox seems very nice, but when you want to add "content", the admin interface is all wrecked, at least with Firefox!? The default themes are just plain ugly.

When you disable the CSS, you end up, with all themes but a few, with tables everywhere, even though the code is xHTML strict compliant.

Now, my question. Can we get, somehow, somwhere, the theme is is used on this site, Drupal.org? It looks like some kind of Spreadfirefox, but with perfect xHTML and CSS, not some quirky bad code? Or prehaps another theme that we can work upon with good CSS coding. I need to build a site very quickly, and, in my wildest dreams, I am thinking about this site with only a logo to change... or something like that (a few background images perhaps ;-))

Thanks

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heine commented

Can we get, somehow, somwhere, the theme is is used on this site, Drupal.org?

See also (among many others):
http://drupal.org/node/18200
http://drupal.org/node/11764
http://drupal.org/node/11695
http://drupal.org/node/13499

Friendselectric, from the same author is available.
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tjharman commented

The drupal.org theme is not available, so that it retains its originality.

I've had no real problems with the few themes that I've tested. Some of the two column themes I've played with didn't work very nicely, but all the 3 column ones have.

Cheers,
Tim

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sepeck commented

http://drupal.org/node/27367

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Baudesign commented

I understand and agree with the reasons why this theme is not made widely available to the public. My question should have actually been this one: Why isn't there a good theme out threre that looks good, right out of the box? Not some redesigns of the WordPress Kubrick theme, or any popular theme available on the Internet for that matter.

The Drupal.org Web site looks amazing. I think that the Drupal CMS should be distributed with an amazing theme that designers could work on to suit their needs. At the moment, for what I have noticed during the last 2 days, you -- or shall I say "we" -- have a very well coded maching that has been "painted" with low quality pixels. I just hope that this issue will be top priority for the next 4.7 release.

Well, for the moment, I think I will read the manual. No choice.

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Steven commented

FriendsElectric shares many of Bluebeach's base, but is free to use. Have you had problems with it?

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sepeck commented

Friends Electric is by the same guy with many of the same techniques. As to priority, well, that depends on our contributors now doesn't it? For posible technique fancy theme's look at meta for one and Curved Slate http://www.nicklewis.org/taxonomy_menu/27/193

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capmex commented

I coded themes for my sites using free templates. I used one of drupal's themes as a base and removed all unneeded code. I wanted a liquid design and it worked for me.

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drupalec-1 commented

try the fancy theme, which is blue marine with different colors so it's pretty safe.
here's a link to lists of themes.
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/node/78
the theme on that site is fancy with different colors
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ArunK commented

Look at the Theme Garden, Theme Whishlist, and Theme Downloads.

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Marc Bijl commented

You wrote "the admin interface is all wrecked, at least with Firefox". Well, I've had the same experience with some themes. So this is what I usually do:

  • Download and install sections module, which makes it easy to use different themes for different sections of the website (based on path/url of pages, to be defined with or without wildcards).
  • Create a custom theme (e.g. based on an existing theme) for the website itself - and configure the sections module so it will use this theme the right way.
  • Download and install (e.g.) the Burnt theme for the administration - and configure the sections module (as well as blocks) so it will use this theme the right way.

The Burnt theme can be found here:
- http://drupal.org/node/49409

Hope this can solve your problem.

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Baudesign commented

Thank you for your suggestions.

I will wait for Drupal 4.7 final release, then I will try to build my own themes. It looks like I will have no choice.

As for the developpers, I suggest that you release this next build with a good functionnal and nice looking theme, just like Kubrick does for WordPress. Again, it is a suggestion I think in the interest of this fine project.