By kbahey on

This is the third theme by designer Chris Messina (a.k.a. FactoryJoe), who brought us the distinctive style of SpreadFireFox, and the Democratica themes.

This theme is already in use on the Of, By and For web site.

The theme has been released for 4.5, and is also compatible with pre-4.6 CVS. It requires the PHPTemplate theme engine.

As with the SpreadFireFox, my work on this theme was just to update the tpl.php files to get them to work with 4.5 and CVS (pre-4.6).

Here are the previous announcements for the SpreadFireFox and the Democratica themes, and here is the project page for the Lincoln's Revenge theme. A tarball for 4.5. and another for 4.6 should be available shortly (perhaps overnight).

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ramdak5000@www.drupal.org’s picture

ramdak5000@www.drupal.org commented

From the name, I thought it might be funky, but it is clean and beautiful, like other themes from Chris. Can't wait to get the tarball for 4.5.

Sorry to raise this here, but was the SFX theme with the patches ever committed to CVS for 4.5?

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kbahey commented

Last question is answered here http://drupal.org/node/17717#comment-33247
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ramdak5000@www.drupal.org commented

Thanks very much for pointing to this.

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Prometheus6 commented

Nice. Very nice.

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moshe weitzman commented

promising ... i think the tables and pager need some love. maybe remove the table borders. see http://www.ofbyandfor.org/tracker for an example

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chrismessina commented

This was probably my second CS/Drupal theme, before I knew about all the things I needed to theme. I like to think of my released themes as simply building blocks towards better themes. Meaning that I hope people rip off all my ideas and actually make them look friggin' sweet. :D

Chris

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akurashy commented

The theme is simple and nice, though I find the header color strong, anyway keep going :D

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SergioGuru commented

I've downloaded your theme and intend to use it. But first I had to fix some margin issues in calendar (archive). So these are changes I recommend to include in your next version:

modules.css:

.sidebar .event-calendar table, .sidebar .calendar table {
     border: 1px solid #cfd7b3;
     border-collapse: collapse;
     border-spacing: 0;
/*     background-color: #f2f5ef;*/
/* uncomment above for solid color */
     width: 100%;
     margin-bottom: 6px;
     }

.sidebar .event-calendar th, .sidebar .calendar th, .sidebar .calendar td.header-month {
     background-color: transparent;
     background: url(images/calendar_sq_bg.gif) top left no-repeat;
     text-align: center;
     border: 1px solid #cfd7b3;
     color: #c30;
     padding: 4px 2px;
     }
.sidebar .event-calendar th.heading, .sidebar .event-calendar th.prev, .sidebar .event-calendar th.next, .sidebar .calendar th.header-month, .sidebar .calendar td.header-month {
     border-width: 1px 0;
     background-image: none;
     background-color: #cfd7b3;
     }

.sidebar .event-calendar td, .sidebar .calendar .row-week td {
     border: 1px solid #cfd7b3;
     color: #727664;
     text-align: center;
     vertical-align: middle;
     margin: 0;
     padding: 6px 2px;
     background: url(images/calendar_sq_bg.gif) top left no-repeat;
     }

style.css:

/* add this after .sidebar .block .content style */
.sidebar .block .content .calendar {
	color: #333;
	margin: 0 -1.0em;
}
.sidebar .block .content .user-login-block {
	color: #333;
	margin: 0 -0.7em;
}

As you see I have changed color values to lower case - please do so globally as is more to XHTML and CSS standards (and drop this old upper case HTML formatting ...).

OK, that's all for now.

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SergioGuru commented

What about leafs in this theme (arrows for expanded and collapsed items) like in spread_firefox theme and others? Is there a simple style solution to it?