Sympal Theme
A base theme. A framework for CSS themes. A theme developers theme.
If you have been following some of the recent CSS and webdesign trends, you might have noticed the trend slowly bending towards semantic correct designs. As it should have been from the start.
This means that you don’t just design a site, but really build it. Starting with a good blueprint, which results in a good foundation.
The theme uses a module called Sympal Theme Module. It is not required, that module, but it will provide extra blocks and features that might help you.
Such a foundation must be semantically best. This way we fulfil four mayor requirements, for free:
- fully SEO supporting
- accessible on mobile devices
- highlight the content, content comes first
- use very consistent XHTML, CLASSnames and IDnames
In fact we want to use three buzzwords:
Please help promote this module, by promoting yourself: put the links with a small description of your implemented sympal theme theme(s) in the comments. They will be weeded out once in a while, so that we can create a list of cool sympal theme users.
Releases
| Development snapshots | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.x-1.x-dev | 2008-Feb-07 | 54.74 KB | Download · Release notes | Development snapshot |  |
| 4.7.x-1.x-dev | 2007-Mar-09 | 47.58 KB | Download · Release notes | Development snapshot | |
link to implementation
Well, since you asked, I tried sympal for the first time recently. My 'design' is nothing to write home about (yet). The site is a personal project and gets some love whenever I find the time.
link: http://therapeuten.be
(I'm also implementing sympal for a 5-site multisite that's launching sometime in May 08. Stay tuned)
IE bug
Feel free to weed this one out...
I just looked at the site above in IE 6 and it was messed up: the left column was off the side of the screen and the scrollbar only went right.
So weed out a theme ...
... because of a completely jacked up browser?
How about we be just a bit realistic and say that we don't weed things out that are correct in browser that actually display standards compliance.
Better Yet, We just weed out anything that starts it' name with "Internet Explorer" and we'll be all good.