Inisghts into Holygrail vs Foundation vs Multiflex (vs Mollio)

TechMosaic - October 1, 2006 - 22:11

I am looking for opinions on working with the above themes as the foundation for my own theme customization efforts. I want to learn one and use my knowledge of it to build 3-5 additional sites that will all look very different once I am done.

I have kind of ruled out Mollio, because of the need to manage two stylesheets and keep them in synch (one for IE6 and below, and one for all others.)

That leaves Foundation, Holygrail, Multiflex as the top contenders.

Needs:
Working with 4.7 and hope to seamlessly go to 5.0
Need something that lets me easily go from 2 to 3 columns
Prefer liquid site - or at least a liquid center content.
I intend to heavily leverage other drupal modules, especially forms & polls, events, etc.
Want it to support as many Drupal options and hooks as possible (breadcrumbs, mission, slogan, etc.)
Want one that is going to be continuously maintained, updated, improved by Drupal users who value it.

If anyone has an opinion as to which of these might suit me best for these needs, I would love to hear from you. - Or if there are any key differentiators between these themes and how they are implemented, I do not see what they are at this point, and would love to have your insights.

I have reviewed them all, and they all seem nice to me. I think Multiflex has the code comments, which is a plus.
Other than that, I am stumped.

holygrail doesn't have

MySchizoBuddy - October 3, 2006 - 06:12

holygrail doesn't have node.tpl.php file in it. The functionality is there but not in the appropriate file. Through teh form u will see suggestions like "change node.tpl.php file to acheive this" and guess what holygrail doesn't have one. That is going to be frustating.

Multiflex seems complicated with theme over-rides.

From what i can tell there isn't a drupal 5.0 capable theme that is basic and tableless and works. The Zen themes are good, but work is still being done on them

Thanks - I will check out Zen

TechMosaic - October 3, 2006 - 13:08

Thanks for the suggestion. This was not on my radar screen and I will definately check it out.
I wonder why Zen Themes are not on the drupal themes download page?

I found them while reading

MySchizoBuddy - October 3, 2006 - 15:26

I found them while reading the CVS issues. They were saying that Zen beach will become the default theme for Drupal 5.0 when it is released.

Holygrail is based on the

MySchizoBuddy - October 3, 2006 - 19:11

Holygrail is based on the holygrail article from A list Apart, and is the best 3 columns css based layout.
You could ask the developer of the theme to amend it so it has the missing file.

Delicious Zen blue theme

MySchizoBuddy - October 6, 2006 - 04:16

There is another Zen theme you might want to look at
If you like you can follow the development of the theme.

 
 

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