Sorry to be a bother but, is Zen the theme with the lawn chair? On 29.Aug.2006, at 09:54 PM, Jeff Eaton wrote:
Jeff Robbins wrote:
The Zen theme is a framework for creating your own CSS-based themes. I would love nothing more than to see several hundred better CSS-based themes contributed and ready for release in Drupal 5.1. It would mean that we'd have that many designers realizing the potential of Drupal.
That is something that comes up a lot. A huge number of people out there have taken it upon themselves to design style sheets for their web engine/cms of choice. That's not always easy for the hobbyist/curious designer to do in Drupal. It's possible with any of the well-designed themes, but very few have the level of flexibility necessary to do anything more than change the font and colors.
Contributing factors have included our historically 'dense' CSS file (which often required an all-or-nothing approach to CSS overrides), the necessity of diving into code to override specific kinds of pages and/or sidebar blocks, and core themes that while adequite used relatively outdated design techniques like table- layout and so on.. This version of Drupal makes huge strides in simplifying the forest of CSS. In addition, it's now possible to drop in individual .tpl files for specific page URLs and blocks. A 'foundation' theme like zen would also be awesome for hanging CSS skins on.
In the meantime, please consider whether this is an improvement over Bluemarine. From a structural standpoint, I think it's a home run. There are still a lot of subtle tweaks that I think would make it a smash on other levels, too.
--Jeff