I've gotten myself in a bit over my head, volunteering on a website project for the local County Fair authority, and after getting first purchase on the scope of the job, discarded Wordpress, and later (when I simply couldn't wrap my head around it), Joomla. Drupal, it is. :-)
But in that Joomla phase, I (and they) fell in love with Siteground's theme called Nature Jars -- or at least, it's design, which is an in-set main column well, with a silhouetted nameplate image over a full-bleed background, like so:
http://www.siteground.com/template-preview/joomla25/siteground-j16-23
What I like particularly about this design is that while the nameplate image is actually only the size of the column well, it *looks* like it's part of the top background image. (I'll be using a different nameplate, but plan still to silhouette it. And I'd actually like the inset to be even more pronounces -- the gutters wider -- than that.)
I've been looking through the drupal.org themes library, but haven't been able to find anything for D7 that looks all that much like this; does this design perchance tickle anyone's memory?
It's possible, I suppose, that it could be ported, but I'm already growing grass to get a hamburger; I haven't time to truck in the dirt, as well. :-)
Cheers, -- jra
I would say what you are looking for is a background image, you would then slice and use the sides, middle column, and top, where its exposed behind the header and Main page, or alternatively you can use a general background image, and position the regions of the site on it, then add images to the background, and slice from there. You can use a simple theme like this: https://drupal.org/project/business and adjust the components around it to look just like that. The background you reference just consists of this: http://joomla16.siteground.com/templates/siteground-j16-23/images/wrapper.pn... and this: http://joomla16.siteground.com/templates/siteground-j16-23/images/headerimg....
Which could have been complete image, cut apart, then rejoined to look continuous around the website regions
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
I've gotten myself in a bit over my head, volunteering on a website project for the local County Fair authority, and after getting first purchase on the scope of the job, discarded Wordpress, and later (when I simply couldn't wrap my head around it), Joomla. Drupal, it is. :-)
But in that Joomla phase, I (and they) fell in love with Siteground's theme called Nature Jars -- or at least, it's design, which is an in-set main column well, with a silhouetted nameplate image over a full-bleed background, like so:
http://www.siteground.com/template-preview/joomla25/siteground-j16-23
What I like particularly about this design is that while the nameplate image is actually only the size of the column well, it *looks* like it's part of the top background image. (I'll be using a different nameplate, but plan still to silhouette it. And I'd actually like the inset to be even more pronounces -- the gutters wider -- than that.)
I've been looking through the drupal.org themes library, but haven't been able to find anything for D7 that looks all that much like this; does this design perchance tickle anyone's memory?
It's possible, I suppose, that it could be ported, but I'm already growing grass to get a hamburger; I haven't time to truck in the dirt, as well. :-)
Cheers, -- jra
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From: "Chi" advancec@gmail.com
I would say what you are looking for is a background image, you would then slice and use the sides, middle column, and top, where its exposed behind the header and Main page, or alternatively you can use a general background image, and position the regions of the site on it, then add images to the background, and slice from there. You can use a simple theme like this: https://drupal.org/project/business and adjust the components around it to look just like that.
I might, but I don't begin to know how. I'm an information architecture guy, not an HTML guy. :-)
The background you reference just consists of this: http://joomla16.siteground.com/templates/siteground-j16-23/images/wrapper.pn... and this: http://joomla16.siteground.com/templates/siteground-j16-23/images/headerimg....
Which could have been complete image, cut apart, then rejoined to look continuous around the website regions
Ah; so they floated the silhouetted image over the background, and then sliced that up and dropped it in. But the part where that goes down *past* the rail is done how? Or is that merely an illusion, and it *doesn't*, actually?
Cheers, -- jra
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