Blueprint

Themes

m3avrck - October 4, 2007 - 20:58

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, read more: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom
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, read more: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with...
- automatically adds META keywords if taxonomy exists on that node, read more: http://searchengineland.com/070905-194221.php
- avoid duplicate titles in search indexes for pager pages: http://www.seo-expert-blog.com/blog/avoiding-duplicate-title-tags-on-pager-pages-in-drupal
better forum icons, http://drupal.org/node/102743#comment-664157
improve forum display and performance, http://www.sysarchitects.com/node/70
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 http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ comments for grouping of styles
lots of comments and theming tricks in template.php to learn from :)