[consulting] Examples of great looking Drupal sites without custom design

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Sam,

As part of our Knight Drupal Initiative work, we will be releasing some 
work that makes some, and possibly all, of what you describe possible.

We have been working with the Hexagon theme, and integrating that with 
Skinr. One of the goals of Hexagon is to simplify and streamline the 
process of building out subthemes. Hex also supports functionality 
embedded within regions; the subtheme that ships with hex provides 
tabbed regions and accordion regions in both the sidebar and the main 
content areas.

The theme we will release as part of our KDI work will also include 
classes for Views-based slideshows (leveraging the Views Slideshow 
module) - the classes for this can be added via the ui using Skinr. 
We're a couple days away from getting a screencast together that shows 
the amount of flexibility this offers.

Additionally, within the base theme, we have broken out the CSS for some 
of the more basic design elements, so that the general color options and 
font treatments can be easily modified.

Hexagon, and the base theme Canvas, are now both available on 
drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/hexagon - We're using the 1.x 
release of Skinr; while the 2.x branch has some great new functionality, 
given that we are building an install profile we opted to be 
conservative and go for a point release.

Cheers,

Bill

On 6/22/10 6:05 AM, Sam Cohen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of some examples of great looking 
> sites built on contributed themes with only minor modifications.  In 
> other words great looking Drupal sites without custom designs -- or 
> premium themes.  I'm not talking about a base theme like Zen, but a 
> theme that's just been slightly modified (logo, banner, color change, 
> etc).
>
> A potential nonprofit client with a very limited budget can't afford a 
> designer, so I told them they can go with a theme.  They asked for 
> examples of live sites built with existing themes.  I've never seen 
> such a list.  Sure, there's theme garden, but those aren't live and 
> tend not to show off themes in their best light.
>
> I have a few examples of sites I did myself, but they are all built on 
> Sky.
>
>  If anyone has examples -- or knows of a blog post showcasing some -- 
> that would be really helpful.
>
> thanks,
> Sam
>
> -- 
> http://samcohen.com
>
>
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