I know comments on the look of things is almost entirely a subjective thing... but I can't help but say -1 on the look. Don't get me wrong - it looks 'fine' - even 'good' - but it doesn't look as SEXY as the world's best/greatest/developer friendly/user friendly;-)/most powerful CMS should. This is a place where Drupalbucks(tm) (i.e. cash contributed to Drupal) should be spent. Put out an RFP where designers bid on the project. Part of the response to the RFP should include a 'treatment.' Post the treatments - have the community choose the one they want - and pay the theme developer to do it up right. This is about the Drupal brand and selling Drupal to the world. andre Jeff Robbins wrote:
I just want to alert everyone to the new theme work that's been placed in the issue queue:
As some of you probably know, I've been working on a new theme for Drupal that aims to become the default core theme for the next version of Drupal. There's still a fair amount of bug fixing, tweaking, and general fussing that needs to happen, but I wanted to show off the work that has been done so far, get some feedback from the community, and generally get these new themes on everyone's radar.
We've set up a test site here: http://drupaltheme.lullabot.com
You can click on the the links on the first node on the home page to see the different themes "in action".
Some background:
There is currently 1 theme with 4 sub-themes. The main theme is called "Zen" and aims to provide basic, standards-compliant, XHTML that can be easily manipulated with CSS (think: "CSS Zen Garden"). And then all of the sub-themes are simply the same HTML page structure with different CSS. The themes use a variation on the Holy Grail layout to create a table-free, 3-column, 2-column, or single column layout depending on whether blocks are enabled in the left or right columns. The themes also move the taxonomy and link lists into semantically-correct "ul" lists. The current icons used in the theme are not GPL, but Nathan Haug is currently creating icons that we will be able to use.
The subthemes: - Zen Fixed :: a fixed-width version of the basic Zen theme. - Zen Beach :: a Drupal styled theme designed by Nathan Haug. Still a bit buggy, but very promising! - Zen Drops Big :: a simple-but-pretty fixed width theme with a picture of big water drops - Zen Drops Small :: a simple-but-pretty fixed width theme with a picture of small water drops
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