Dries Buytaert wrote:
Is your message one of inspiration, or one of suggestion? if ($message == "suggestion") {
It seems to me that with a quick custom template, and some CSS handiwork this page:
http://themes.drupal.org/themeswitcher
could be transformed into something that looked more like a photo gallery. Screenshots would have to be normalized -- fairly simple... (e.g img.theme-screenshot {width:250px;} ).We could fit a lot more screenshots onto one page if we reduced the size of screenshots, and floated container divs into rows. Each thumbnail could have a "switch theme", "download", "support" link. I think it would be a 2 hour job. But I'd need to get the database, and codebase onto my local machine in order to be sure. ;-)
Features like comments, and voting are nice. However, there's an inherent difficulty in converting a theme switching module into a node. Really, I think that voting and comments could wait. What's REALLY important is creating a better interface for people to browse through themes.
} else if ($message == "inspiration") { Eh... drupal's a totally different beast from a design perspective -- wordpress themes are "blog skins". A good drupal themes need to be extremely flexible, multi-layered, monsters. There's just so many aspects to theme. Some better design inspiration (imho) is found in the following links:
Inspiration for theme parts (this is very relevent for drupal themers):
1. A gallery of comment styles: http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/comment-showcase.html 2. A gallery of heading typography: http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/typography-for-headlines.html 3. A gallery of CSS table design: http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/index.php 4. A gallery of navigation menus: http://www.alvit.de/css-showcase/css-galleries-tabs-navigation-showcase.php 5. the famous "listamatic" gallery: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
Full design Inspiration (personal favorites::
1. http://www.cssbeauty.com/gallery/ 2. http://cssvault.com/ 3. http://www.cssreboot.com/?order=total_score_desc&count=54&page=1 4. http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/ } else { Well, sometimes I just like hearing myself talk. }
Onward, Nick Lewis http://www.nicklewis.org
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
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