Great looking theme.

I put it up on a blog site this morning.

Sure hope you aren't done with it. It is a great looking theme.

With all the space it provides on large monitors the content spreads too far across the page; hard to read.

That is the case even when you have right and left columns installed.

Basically, I'd say you need to include more blocks to configure with all that space.

The theme appears to work well.

I placed two blocks in the Content and they show up as two different sizes, the right column starts (dropped) below those two blocks.

This theme looks like it would be an ideal candidate for fluid grid arrangement for configuring the site.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Thanks! I'm by no means finished with it :)

Not quite sure what you mean by adding 'more blocks to configure with all that space'... I'm assuming you mean regions, but where would I put more regions to make the content not as wide? Another sidebar?

The different sized blocks is due to having the blocks floated to the left, so that when there's only one block displayed it doesn't take up the whole space... I'm not sure I like this though so I might end up changing it. Suggestions for how to do this would be appreciated!

The blocks appearing above the right sidebar is by design. That whole top section is meant to be displayed above both the middle column and the right sidebar, something a bit different.

This theme looks like it would be an ideal candidate for fluid grid arrangement for configuring the site.

Not sure what you mean by this either... What's a fluid grid arrangement and how would it be used for 'configuring the site'?

Thanks for the suggestions. Looking forward to developing this theme further.

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domineaux commented

Look in the themes repository

http://drupal.org/project/themes?filters=drupal_core:87&text=fluid

This may not be a best fit, but it is a pretty unique concept.

There are some other themes you might look at nine sixty, genesis, zen which I don't think are grid themes.

For one thing you need a banner for Suckerfish,nice menus or other dropdown javascript type menus.

You need a region under the banner for additional below header type content, then you need the content region below that. Stacking side bars is fine. I don't usually care if they are collapsible or not.

I don't use 100% on any sites for most part. All my sites have pictures,graphics,etc that need more permanent placement.

The large 100% screens are fine for sites that mostly manage text, is my take on it.

You might think about a couple of width settings for fixed. I think 960 is kind of a standard now, 1024 maxes out alot of computer screens that are still on 1024x768

I use 960 on my sites. It is wide enough, to display a lot of content.

The old 750 wide is archaic looking to my way of thinking. Makes the site look unprofessional IMO, of course.

I can live with the fact you want the top content to be above the right sidebar. I agree with that, if you use left lsidebar only.

It displaces your content above the right side bar and looks abit strange.

I also prefer right sidebars and have content on left side for better SEO. Since spider bots get into the content before the menus.

Basically, I would suggest you review other 100% themes and pick out what you like best as a guideline.

Content display is important, and when you have sites like this drupal site you see text stretched across the screen. There is a large block region on the right, which does help alot. I usually leave the bookmarks section of the browser on when I'm on 100% sites so the text is consolidated for better reading.

I use a 24" monitor for building sites, because I have so many things open all the time. I would never suggest this size monitor for anyone, except gamers and developers.

Your theme looks very good, clean and smooth very well designed.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Title: Sure hope you aren't done with it. » Drop-down menus, more regions and fixed-width setting
Version: 6.x-1.0-beta1 » 6.x-1.x-dev
Assigned: Unassigned »

Thanks for the suggestions domineaux.

I don't think I'll worry about a grid system for this theme, but will keep it in mind for future projects. I will however look into creating some theme settings to allow users to choose to use a fixed width instead.

I have been thinking about adding support for drop-down menus. Not sure whether to just provide styles for the Nice Menus module or include my own code for it...

I like your idea for more block regions. A region just above the content would be good for people that don't want the blocks pushing the right sidebar down.

This theme is designed to be source-ordered, so no matter what setup of columns and sidebars you use, the content column will always come first in the code.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev

New features to go in v2

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domineaux commented

I am loving this theme.

Great, you added those features.

I'll update now.

Your work is very much appreciated.

Thank you for an excellent theme.

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pimentoski commented

the change from version 1 to 2 are the additional block region? and about the fixed width?

thank you for an great theme

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Yeah, version 2 already has more block regions, and will get drop-down menus (dependant on the Nice Menus module) and a fixed with setting.

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sunia commented

Is there any way to make the abessive theme fixed width? This is one of my favorite theme's but I don't like the fluid width.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

You're welcome to add your own CSS to a custom.css file if you want to do that, otherwise I'm going to add in support for a fixed-width sometime in the (hopefully) near future...

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pimentoski commented

any news about making a fixed-width?

is it possible using the custom.css?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I haven't had a chance to do this yet, but it should be easy enough to do with your own CSS. Something along these lines should get you started:

#page {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 960px;
}
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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
Status: Active » Fixed

I just committed some changes which add a fixed-width theme setting: http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=346476
Am just about to release a new version with these changes.

I've decided against drop-down menus, though if someone wants to submit a patch for integration with Nice Menus, I'll happily review it.
Marking as fixed for now.

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domineaux commented

I've applied the changes to the site I'm using this theme on.

The superfish module is a step up from nice menus.

The primary menu is OK for the site I use this theme on.

Thanks for the fixed width.

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Weirdo_44 commented
Status: Fixed » Active

Is there an easy way to change the background color for each menu-block?

Can it be possible to divide the center region in 2 or more regions.

TOP.................................TOP
LEFT CENTER1 CENTER2 RIGHT
LEFT CENTER Right
FOOTER .....................FOOTER

Something like that

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Fixed

New support requests should be asked in a separate issue. I've created a new issue for Weirdo_44's request here: #768436: More block regions
Reverting status.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.