[development] New Themes for New Drupal

Neil Drumm drumm at delocalizedham.com
Tue Aug 29 18:27:33 UTC 2006


Neil Drumm wrote:
> Lets try setting some goals here:
> 
> * It must be a good theme technically.
>   - Work in the browsers we say Drupal works in (it is somewhere in the 
> handbook).
>   - Be tableless, because tables are for storing tabular data, not 
> visual layout.
>   - Not override more themeable functions than we already do.
>   - Have good code style.
> * It must look good.

     - Put the content first and avoid visually noisy design.

> * It must be customizable.
>   - By people who are never going to touch the CSS. The theme 
> configuration options need to work and produce good results.
>   - And by people who will touch the CSS.
> * It must improve the Drupal brand. This is the first thing people see.
> 
> This is just a quick list, so feel free to tell us what needs to be 
> changed.


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Neil Drumm
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