New theme: bluebreeze

Screenshots or demosite?

Very very nice! A couple of comments.

1) Which of the .tpl.php files differ from zen's? I experimentally dropped this into the zen directory as a sub-theme, and a couple of odd bits rendered incorrectly (breadcrumbs in particular). Other than that, though, it seemed to be OK.

2) Primary menus seem jammed up under the logo.

The site name is in the default serif font, and doesn't seem to match the otherwise clean-and-smooth look of the theme.

Very very nice.

I have a demosite up and running (with minimal content) at clean.angrylittletree.com.

Don't pollute it too much, I'm using it to port modules to 5.0 at the moment ;)

Thanks for the patch! In my dream world, 5.0 would ship with Delicious Zen (fluid and fixed), this theme, a Zen port of BlueMarine for the old-schoolers, and the grey template that originally debuted with the Zen template. There's such a great variety of polished looks here...

I've attached a png of the problem I mentioned - I'm trying to see if I need to clear out firefox's cache or something like that.

Very, very nice with the updates. Thoughts:

1) The primary menu up top seems a little squished. If the links had just a couple more pixels between the baseline of the text and the light dividing line, it would be a bit more pleasing to the eye.

2) I see that the terms are aligned to the right, and set to wrap... How does it look when LOTS of taxonomy terms, or terms with very long names, are assigned to a node?

3) I still think the site name should be sans-serif bold... Or at the very least, specify something like Georgia that's available on most browsers, and looks different than the default Sans Serif. I overdosed on Times New Roman Bold long ago :>

Seriously, this is a very nice, very polished theme. It's actually very close to BlueMarine in terms of the overall feel of the page, but with all the slick polish that we know BlueMarine lacks... It feels less 'bloggy,' which is nice...

One other minor issue I'm noticing: the site slogan is presseed right up against the right side of the window. Giving it a bit of padding on that side would feel a little less cramped.

Frando, this site is looking great! I'd love to see this in core also. You've already gotten a ton of details nailed down. The forum looks especially nice. Can you put up an example of Secondary Links?

I like those icons ;-)

Frando, I did some poking around and noticed that the bad alignment of the Primary Links menu *ONLY* occurs when there are no items in it, and the 'Edit Primary Links' button is automatically inserted. Once an item is added to the primary menu, voila. it works.

This looks very nice, great work. Im not 100% sure of the primary links, though. For me they look a bit off place. Cant explain it more detailed because i dont know nothing about designs, its just a feeling. +1 from me to put it into core, its far better than bluemarine imho.

I really like this theme--it has a sophiticated feel, but retains a classic simplicity. Given the limitation of blue being the only colour allowed, it is an impressive achievment.
One question: are all the Drupal core themes going to have this self-imposed limitation? It would be nice to have at least one example that was not exclusively blue!

I like the improvements. Personally I would vote to keep the serif font in the site name.
One problem: When I view http://xcite-online.de/drupal/ in IE, there is a HUGE amount of whitespace below the footer. No problem in Firefox. I had a quick look at the code and can't immediately see the cause.

Tabs on pages are right-aligned and the actual page content is left-aligned (as usual), but that feels somehow uncomfortable, is not really usable and looks misaligned in the end. See http://xcite-online.de/drupal/?q=user/register. The tabs should stay on the left IMO. Thats what everybody is used to. Otherwise nice work :) Keep going.

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Some text can not be translated in the comment.tpl.php: "On" and "says:"
Cool theme !!

I expected to be 'bleh' when I clicked on this, but after a few moments I find this preferable to Deliciously Zen or Themetastic.

My only immediate comment is that without any padding or border on the left and right edges, it triggers my innate claustrophobia a little bit and I want to expand my window so it's not bumping up against the sides of the browser; but of course, it will no matter how big my window is.

to profix898: I like it much more when the tabs are right aligned, for me its more usable and looks better.

Argh another theme that does not work with vote up down... anyone has an idea why?? (I could go and the something useful to the maintainer of thatmodule...)

Thanks,
patchak

It is easy to note on the demo site: Both polls and the pager look kind of messed up.

Hey this is looking great. And a ton of activity on this...keep at it!

nice ... not so sure about the right aligned tabs such as on http://xcite-online.de/drupal/?q=user (you should be logged out to see this form)

Hi frando , I understand that you would like to deal with contrib modules later.. but jsut for the sake of it, the widget does not 'hold' at the side of the node (all the widgets are dropped at the bottom of the page) This happens with 90% of the themes out there, but I guess it has something to do with the module and not the theme itself. Please note that it works fine with bluemarine, so as a theme that should be included in core I think It's important to try and make it work...That is why I made this comment and the same comment on the discussion about delicious_zen.

cya and great work, really nice! Are colours on the site based on images or simply some color codes?
Thanks

1. A really strange issue with this theme in FF (win32). Open up http://xcite-online.de/drupal in a new window/tab (1. page view), then refresh the page (2. page view). Watch the search box, it shrinks size and partly vanishes. Continue and browse to any other page or refresh the same page again (3. or later page view) and the search box expands as before. This behaviour is reproducable, but you need to start with a fresh window/tab.

2. Using Opera9 (win32) the bullets in lists (e.g. recent comments or create new account/request new password) are upshifted a few pixels.

Look at the screenshot to see the issues yourself.

#16 - lots of whitespace in Internet Explorer 6 at the bottom of the site

I have spent some time trying to pin this down, and it is produced by the following line in layout.css

* html #footer-wrapper {
  width: 100%;
  padding-bottom: 10010px;
  margin-bottom: -10000px;
}

This looks like a browser hack to me (the * character) but if you remove this code, the problem in IE6 goes away. Maybe there is a CSS guru out there who knows what this hack is supposed to do and why it is not working.

The bottom of the icons are cut of in the comment.tpl.php both on FF1.5 and IE6.

Original:

li.comment_delete a {
  background: url(images/mini-trash.png) no-repeat 0 2px;
  padding-left: 15px;
}

Changed: 0 0px

li.comment_delete a {
  background: url(images/mini-trash.png) no-repeat 0 0px;
  padding-left: 15px;
}

This is really, really good, IMO the best drupal theme I've ever seen. Keep up the work!

"hopefully this weird reload bug in FF is gone as well" Yes, it IS gone. Thanks.

This is a really nice theme. I'm using it on my 4.7 site. The header seemed a little odd to me, though, so I switched things around a bit. I'm attaching it here in case anyone is curious. I don't claim to be a designer, though, so it may well be that my version sucks. ;)

If you want to see it live on 4.7, the URL is http://couleeregiononline.com/ . I did the screenshot for historical purposes as this site is being developed and changing a lot and I can't guarantee this theme will be there if someone looks in the future.

Michelle

@Michelle. I think your variation has merit. But I have to admit I really liking the other way! :-P

To the designer/themer: I thought I was all blued out. But I like this theme a lot. One thing I like (and it's a subjective thing) is that the page content feels important. All the sidebar/header content is perfectly usable/accessible, and it looks great, but visually it is not competing for my attention when I'm reading. I think this is really important for community plumbers whose foremost goal is to deliver information. The result is that I find the page is relaxing to read.

I should probably clarify what I didn't like about it rather than just saying it was odd. I don't have a logo, so I just unchecked the Drupalicon. This put the site name over to the right too far so I moved it left. I wanted to move the tabs down because the seemed to get lost way up at the top, which required moving the site name. When I did all that, the background didn't work so I flipped it upside down.

Anyway, I'm certainly not claiming my way is better. Just explaining my reasoning better.

Michelle

The formating of lists (ul - li) is not OK.

See screenshot for more info.

I'm running this on 4.7, so hopefully someone using it on 5.x will comment to rule out version incompatibility.

I've noticed that on a lot of pages, my content gets split. There will be some at the top then a huge gap, then more at the bottom. This only happens on Firefox; seems fine on IE 6. (Don't have IE 7 to test).

You can see it on http://couleeregiononline.com/communities/holmen . It isn't due to the custom stuff on that page, though, as I see it even on admin type pages such as /admin/help. Basically, if there's two vertical sections, they split.

Any suggestions? I really like this theme, but I'm geting tired of scrolling down over the gap...

Thanks,

Michelle

Hi.. Great theme! But, I on my 4.7 site the cck pages are getting pushed down. Any fixes for this?

Thanks,
Kris

Now that there is a project page http://drupal.org/project/bluebreeze

perhaps we should close this general issue in favor of using the bluebreeze issue queue: http://drupal.org/project/issues/bluebreeze

also, I'm really enjoying using this theme - works great for me!

Agreed.

I like the Garland theme, too bad this one wasn't the default though. I like it better. props.

Fantastic theme! Personally, I think the ideal theme would have the Bluebreeze design, but with the menu layout of Zen. Having the menu below the banner, with the possibility of a secondary menu right below it, just works so much better for most real life web designs.

I find the placement of the primary menu and search box as a key irritation when customizing most themes. By moving the search box out of the banner area, as you have, is a great step forward. With the primary menu below the banner area (and with its own div) you maximize the flexibility of the design. Banners quite often contain graphics as well as logos.

How hard would it be to develop a "bottom-menu" variation of Bluebreeze?

One other item: How hard would it be to define a % width for the fluid version so that there is padding on either side of the theme?