On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:42, Dries Buytaert wrote:
Hello world,
is there someone else who likes?
On the plus side, as a fan of "lean and clean" themes, it fits that model nicely. The buttons look a lot like some of the default KDE and GNOME themes, which will make Linux users happy. The comments others have made about it being "boring" don't concern me at all. I *like* "boring" in a default theme, because when I am installing a new site what I most want right away is just go get it up and running. I don't want to have a complex theme that might break for some modules (such as AcidFree or other photo albums, live chat modules, etc.) that have special layout needs. Let me get online with a basic theme, start creating my content and menus and such, and I'll tweak the cosmetics later. (Especially in a team environment, it is very useful to get the functionality working first and let the theme guru play at their leisure while content mavens get to work creating pages.) Content is king. My one significant complaint is the fixed-width layout. When, oh when, will web designers learn that web != paper? I know all the stuff publishing pros say about line length and readability. But let that be the *user's* choice, by appropriately sizing their browser window. Don't mandate a narrow column width as a hardwired feature of the site; let the browser wrap the text as needed. With a variable-width main content area, the user who loves a newspaper-like narrow column has only to shape his or her browser window accordingly. Other than that one issue, I like it overall. Score: 3 If the theme becomes variable-width, or if (as someone else suggested) the fixed/variable width is an admin option, I'd bump that up to a 4. Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Syscrusher (Scott Courtney) Drupal page: http://drupal.org/user/9184 syscrusher at 4th dot com Home page: http://4th.com/