[consulting] Drupal Designs

[sime]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:

>sime wrote:
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>>To cloak Drupal you would:
>>-- retheme css classes and id names (eg. class="clear-block block 
>>block-user"> is a dead giveaway)
>>-- alias css includes (or css aggregated file)
>>-- alias drupal.js and jquery.js paths.
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>You're missing the point! Consider the subject of this thread.
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Nope, I simply answered the question:

"Are there others who care to deliberately hide that the
site is on Drupal beyond the visual aspects?"

And as I went on, I said I didn't think the question was important. So I 
agree with you yes? ;-)

>The talk about "cloaking Drupal" is not to hide its technical 
>identification, but rather the fact that most Drupal sites -- even ones 
>with plenty of custom theme work done to them -- have a uniformly bland, 
>geeky look to them. . What is perfectly suitable to a personal or 
>community site won't work in business, where eye candy _does_ often 
>matter as clients strive to distinguish themselves from their competitors.
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>I brought a seasoned web designer -- one who has done very well for 
>himself in creating some extremely eye-catching sites, and is a skilled 
>Flash and Photoshop jockey -- over to the gallery of Drupal themes at 
>d.o. He burst out in laughter. I think the only themes considered to be 
>even near creative and competent (from a design POV) were some of the 
>Andreas entries, especially the commercial stuff that's not at d.o.
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It's hard to make a robust, beautiful/flexible theme for all ocassions, 
any company who dedicates themselves to creating one (eg. zen you might 
say) deserves a lot of kudos. Is this what your goal is?

I would convert any functional html into a drupal theme, but the result 
would not be worthy of d.o, unless the client wanted to pump a lot more 
funds into it.

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