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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
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Op maandag 19 juni 2006 22:07, schreef Nick Lewis:
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.
we had that for about half a year. A complete failure.
* Developers have already a hard time to keep the drupal.org project nodes up to date. Let alone if they have to work on TWO. Not an option. * Metadata for these nodes was hard to come by. Who developed it? What is the theme about? Is it pure CSS, or table design. We had all that, in flexinode. But it was always OFF. * Making a wiki did not help either. 9 of 10 entries were bogus. kiddies entering some pron-pics in the "screenshot" gallery, people submitting "asdfasdf" content and so on. We only allowed Registered ppl to do this, still it was a mess. * Comments had the same problem: They attracted the same kind of "asdfasdf" folks. Here too, we only allowed registered ppl to comment.
IMO it is not about providing more data on themes.drupal.org, but about making project.module on drupal.org better.
themes.drupal.org, should, IMO ONLY be a display of the themes. let drupal.org project module handle the browsing!
I am open for suggestions, but even more so for patches to themeswitcher.
Also note that we cannot upgrade to 4.7 untill we find a way in themeswitcher to NOT have per-theme-blocks. If we would upgrade now, we have to hand-edit the block settings for EACH new theme. Not an option.
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