Blueprint

Blueprint is a starter Drupal theme meant to make development of custom themes faster.

Features

• Normalizes Drupal’s CSS to be consistent.
• Properly aggregates all Blueprint CSS files into a single file when this setting is enabled.
• Put scripts at bottom of page for nice performance gains.
• Flexible layout, from 1 to 3 columns, based on where you configure your blocks to show (left, center, right).
• SEO optimization without the need for heavy modules and additional queries per page.
  • Automatically adds META description to many pages.
  • Automatically adds META keywords if taxonomy exists on that node.
  • Avoid duplicate titles in search indexes for pager pages.
• Better forum icons.
• Improve forum display and performance.
• Prevents duplicate form submissions with jQuery, read more.
• Shows the # of comments below a node since Drupal doesn’t do this by default (usability).
• Add permalinks to each comment.
• Highlight any comments by the author of the node.
• Adds a “you need to login / register” box below all comments if you can’t add a comment (usability).
• Supports conditional comment subjects, if the setting is off it won’t show a chopped off title of the comment.
• Uses CSSEdit comments for grouping of styles.
• Lots of comments and theming tricks in template.php to learn from. :)

Drupal 6 version

• Hover over blocks to reveal admin links to edit and configure the blocks as well as edit the menu blocks.
• Support for Sub-themes.

More help

• Blueprint CSS framework homepage with info and tutorials
• Be sure to read the README
• A little background info on release

Sites using Blueprint

• Drupal 5
  • Ted Serbinski's blog
  • Mom Blog Network
  • MTV UK
  • Comedy Central UK
• Drupal 6
  • go.USA.gov
  • Bibleinfo.com
  • Drupa.ly
  • University of Bristol Students Union
  • Digital Networks del Perú S.A.C
  • Spiritual India in the Belgian Ardennes
  • The personal homepage of Michael Morisy
  • CoolFords.com
  • Afrostar
  • Gunn Runners
  • FightBack!
  • Education Northwest
  • Directors Northwest

Contact me to add your site to the list!

Version 2.x:

Work has begun on the next version of the theme and you can download the 6.x-2.x-dev to play with the changes. The main improvements are added customization settings on the theme settings page and a more robust system for sub-theming, including a basic starter theme.

NOTE: As of 2010-02-02 the 2.x version looks for the Blueprint css framework files in a folder called "framework", not "blueprint". The number of blueprint folders was getting too confusing! View a more detailed explanation.

If you have any questions, ideas or bugs, please let us know.

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