Posted by blooom on June 30, 2010 at 6:24pm
This is a magazine/blog theme created with the power of Drupal. This theme has not only an awesome user experience with floating boxes, a fixed or fluid layout with five different backgrounds, it also comes with a utility module, witch helps achieving the necessary configuration. This is not only a theme - it is a whole website concept.
Features:
- Design
- 5 different styles
- Fixed or fluid layout
- Fancy floating boxes
- Theme settings panel
- Color settings for departments/tags
- Navigation
- Multi level main navigation driven by taxonomy
- Social navigation at the top
- Service navigation in footer
- Tag cloud in footer
- Cool features
- Custom configurable front page node
- Filtering per tag on front page with an amazing animation
- Nice gallery for single post page
- Relevant/similar content on single post page
- Nice little jQuery effects all over the page
- Tabbed area on the front page
- Built in ad management
- Utility module
- Many pre-configured views for different top lists
Package
- Documentation
- Drupal-components
- backup_migrate
- content_types
- imagecache_presets
- module
- photos
- theme
- views
Comments
Sorry, but it doesn't work (after 1 Day debugging)
This template isn't a bad idea, from a certain point of view. So IF! it would work, easier from scratch, it would solve the common problems of different dislay resolutions and mobile theming all-in-one. Great. But looking at it from the point of "buying a template to install it and to go", the template or "whole-website-concept" - as namend - is kind if "unfinished". Sorry. And its main hightlight - that what makes it that attractive at the first look - is basically the work of somebody else: The embedded javascript from masonry. I don't want to blame the author of this theme for having pulled some things easely together here and what isn't working out of the box, especially for cases differing from the authors own drupal installation, because for that what it is, it is still quite cheep. But I think he should be more transparent on some facts while SELLING the theme. Most free themes are less complicated, are more spread out compatible with different user situations and causes less trouble (... and I am a dev) with some things, that may havn't been overseen correctly from the author.
Some of the things, I think the author should have declared more first:
1) Theme NEEDS special views, special content types, special block settings (last even not mentioned in the documentary)
comment: I know that it says: it is included, but it doesn't say that it needs it! That's a different fact!
2) Theme needs more than basic skills about drupal, if something goes wrong (I run drupal sites since 3 years, 5 from scratch)
3) Theme needs 1 day debugging time to make it look exactly like the preview (block setting problems, migrate failures, a.s.o.)
4) Masonry-Javascript credit is missing (only mentioned in the comments on sale-site)
5) Theme isn't really useful for users, who would love to adjust/tweek it a bit for own use, because it strongly stucks on its architecture of content, views, and types. Especially the fronpage only accepts its own content types. This isn't really useful. It should be possible to view other content-types of users on it (even if it needs to be designed), or it should be stated out clearly that it do not.
I bought this template and will try to make it work for me, but after that day (today) trying to make it work I honestly regret it again, that I bought a template. Sorry to the author for saying that. But 1 Day! I only need half a day to implement masonry javascript on a existing template, and I thought I would spare time by bying yours. But that was a miscalculation.
And it is even slow. Can you please update your drupal version with some improvements? Even the database migrate import doesn't work. And where are the social menu items provided in the preview?
Don't get me wrong. It all starts with the sale of an unfinished product for me. Put it up as free for testing and non-commercial use and let them pay for commercial use and support on commercial sites. Ok - Than it would be a favourite theme of mine. Thanks for understanding.
greetings from Berlin, Germany
???
I can't believe that! After me posting the same critics in the comments on the saleshop site of the theme, the author has flagged the comment as inappropriate and the comment isn't readable for potential new purchasers in the moment. Closing comments on a product review page so obviously isn't a real good sign for a product. I am a little bit shocked about such a reaction ...
greetings from Berlin, Germany
Dear Britta, we marked the
Dear Britta,
we marked the comment as inappropriate, because you clearly wrote that out of frustration, and there are several things which are simply wrong!
First, someone who need half a day to implement jQuery Masonry somewhere shouldn't call them self a 'dev'!
And that's exactly where the problems start.
1. Of course it needs special views content_types and so on, how would you accomplish the functionality without those things, which are the strength of Drupal.
2. Maybe you have a different understanding of 'basic skills'
3. Not true, 75 other people managed to get it working with minor or no problems, maybe this has to do with the 'basic skills'
4. So, I forgot the credit for the Masonry-Script, what's the big deal here?
5. This theme is exactly for users who like to tweak and adjust, that's why it's made with Drupal, including the special views, content_types, blocks and so on.
If you like something out of the box, usable for everyone, and ready to run in less that 30 minutes -> GET A WORDPRESS THEME.
sorry blooom
Sorry Blooom,
but I didn't wrote that out of frustration. If I would, I wouldn't write, that it is all in all a great idea. And what you write about this half-a-day thing, is completely wrong. When I say half-a-day it means all together and not only copy paste a javascript link and give some div boxes proper id's to get it work. Maybe this is how you do it, but to individualize it for a given site, is something else. This is what you should know better if you call yourself a dev. Sorry but I run websites since 10 years handling php,java,css,html,xhtml, aso ... and believe me, my post isn't about not getting it to work, it is mostly about your WRONG INFORMATIONS. I CLEARLY explained the difference of including and needing. I think you try to play around with my words the other way around than I meant them here. With out of the box I meant the idea of a theme: splitting code and content from design. A theme should work under several circumstances, and that yours doesn't, is ok, but you should make that clearer. Thats what I meant. A theme is something different than that what you have to offer there. It is more like a drupal distribution.
And something else obvious: You say, "we marked the comment as inappropriate, because you clearly wrote that out of frustration, and there are several things which are simply wrong!" Well, commenting is like discussioning. To come to the subjective conclusion, that my comment is wrong, doesn't lead most of us to the point to delete rather than to DISCUSS it. And finally: A critical comment of a purchaser is still a comment and should be readable for others. That you hide this comment for other pruchasers, a comment which is not abusive in the meaning of the rules for comments, this is saying more about it then your try to put my words up side down.
And that what you say in point 4 makes me really wonder ... man. If you don't get it. I can't help it. The Masonry script is for free. You take it and put it on a drupal installation to sell it as a theme. A theme which is nothing without the script. without credits to masonry. sorry, I've never seen something like this in 10 years.
You say: "75 other people managed to get it working with minor or no problems" ... yeah, thats maybe right, dunno, ... and there are hundrets of people who get the most of the free drupal themes to work without problems, blooom.
I have designed many drupal themes, joomla templates, wordpress themes and themes for an own little php cms. But your last sentence is self-explaining for all who know about the tweeks to run wordpress as a cms-like site with a wordpress theme and loop and performance optimizing ...
greetings from Berlin, Germany