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By macuache on
I'm looking for a block theme like bbc.co.uk or www.rottentomatoes.com
Since I'm a begineer I can't make it from a clean page. I need at least that kind of a template. So I need your help.
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I've browsed through all the themes on drupal.org and had a look on a few other sites. I too would like to get something along the lines of the new BBC site (and I've seen a few threads with it mentioned). It's not so much the dragable boxes, although they are nice - more just the clean look of everything.
If anyone could recommend a theme they've come across that provides a nearish starting point I'd appreciate it, I can then go from there in adapting it myself.
Any replies would be great, meanwhile I'll continue sifting through themes!
hi
I'm not sure whether it's cool to bump stuff around here or not, but I'll give it a go since this has slipped out of view now. Anyone got any ideas / suggestions?
Wordpress seems to have sites with hundreds if not thousands of themes (most of which are bilge, but still) - I can't find anything like that for Drupal, am I not looking hard enough?
No one is answering because
No one is answering because we can only look in the same places you can - the downloads section and the other sites on the web that give away opensource themes - either for Drupal or static themes such www.oswd.org that you can port to Drupal. You can find all those quite easily with a few searches on Drupal or a search engine.
We're not hiding our great themes anywhere, they're just isn't that many. Bummer eh?
Most people build their own theme, using perhaps the Zen theme or one of the other contributed themes as a base. There's a heck of a lot of work in building a theme like the new BBC site (yeah, its pretty cool), so if you wanted something like that you'll either need to get really sharp with your web skills or hire someone.
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Adaptivetheme - theming system for people who don't code.
block themes are the easiest
block themes are the easiest to make: all u do is put a border around your text
the better themes are blending various elements to make the site appealing.
pick a theme that you like and get stuck into it, u need a bit of html and css background knowledge
Cheers guys, I guess that's
Cheers guys, I guess that's what I wanted to hear - I was suspicious all the best themes were being stashed away somewhere ;)
Better get started then!
Hey, I was just thinking,
Hey, I was just thinking, you might want to check out the Panels module, might be something hiding there for you :)
You could also check out one of my themes http://drupal.org/project/newswire its a block type theme with many regions and its pretty easy to customise the look and colours etc - not so easy to change the widths of columns (to do it properly you need to know some PHP even...), but is highly configurable with the regions out of the box and has a custom stylesheet for you to hack away on - try it.
Pimp your Drupal 8 Toolbar - make it badass.
Adaptivetheme - theming system for people who don't code.
thanks!
Thanks very much for that - that actually looks like the best starting point to go on from those I've seen so far. I especially liked the way Hokage site has implemented it. Thanks!