Newswire

Newswire is a 4 column, table-less, fixed width theme for Drupal 6.x. Newswire has many additional regions ideal for displaying standard size banners or any other content. The fixed width is 960 pixels and the main content column width is dynamically set depending on what columns you have enabled.

With 4 columns and 17 regions complex layouts are easy to create using only the blocks system. The screenshot needs updating as it does not show all the new regions that have been added including the two 390px wide regions on the right and the newer content top / content bottom regions (above and below the content in the main content column)

Features:

• Supports 1, 2, 3 or 4 column layouts
• Uses a CSS reset and seperate stylesheets for forms, layout, html elements & styles
• Includes a default user picture/avatar
• Suckerfish drop menus
• 5 selectable "colour" stylesheets via a theme-setting in the theme configuration
• 2 additional custom stylesheets you use to build your own colour theme

The colour stylesheets:

The screenshot shows the "Rubinator" style (default) and there are 7 in total to choose from:

• Rubinator - Ruby red with tan blocks and highlights.
• Rusky - Ruby red with neutral gray blocks and hightlights.
• Surf-n-sand - Blue with tan blocks and highlights.
• Washington - Blue with neutral gray blocks and hightlights.
• Sunset - Orange with neutral gray blocks and hightlights.
• Custom Gray - yours to theme with the gray blocks.
• Custom Tan - yours to theme with the tan blocks.

The theme uses almost no images and there are none to edit to build a new style using the custom stylesheets - its all done with standard colours.

Suckerfish drop menu:
To have your Suckerfish menu just drop a fully expanded Drupal menu block into the suckerfish region and viola, instant drop menu (see the README for full instructions).

Example sites using Newswire:
http://www.softwarefreedomday.sg
http://www.lancefestivalen.se
http://hokage.org

Newswire validates XHTML Strict and has been tested in Firefox 2 & 3, IE6 & 7 and Opera 9.5.

For those savvy CSS hackers Newswire runs on top of a full blown CSS framework of Grids classes, similar to Grids 960 or Blueprint. This framework was written for Drupal (by me) and you are welcome to take it and use it as you please. While Newswire only uses a subset of the classes, I have included a stylesheet named layout-DEV.css which includes the full framework of grids.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-3.2	2008-Oct-23	117.01 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 6.x