phasma [phasma]

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I have been involved with logo and webdesign since about 2003 (http://wyltstyle.com for some reference work). In 2008 I "discovered" Drupal and the opportunities it holds for creating extensive web projects.
Consequently, I was playing around with its modules and themes for quite some time and began utilizing Drupal for a production website.
Meanwhile, I have put together an original theme which would like to make available to the community.

I've started working on this theme when I was in need of a 3 column theme with a newspaper-like appeal, a theme that would strike the right balance between white space and soft, contrasting elements. It should look clean, but not plain.

"German Newspaper" (http://drupal.org/project/german_newspaper) was far too bare and uninspired.
"The morning after" (http://drupal.org/project/tma) did look good at first but lacked any shaded areas for contrast as to guide the eye.
"Analytic" (http://drupal.org/project/analytic) was close in terms of the layout of its content elements, and the overall page design, but too colorful. Also, in all of them there was not footer space as required.

Hence, I began working from a copy of Analytic Theme, but pretty much changed everything: all graphics, all major css, pretty much all of the tpl.php files, except template.php and theme-settings.php.

I have put a block below the actual content area, but before the footer, intended to display the block for similar content where the visitor is likely to notice it and there is plenty of space for unobtrusive links in the footer, all to make sure there is a good flow of "link power" to other pages of the site when being indexed by search engine spiders.

The theme now features 3 fixed width columns, name, logo, slogan, a block in the center column after the content, a footer area with four columns and the actual footer line and user pictures on nodes and comments.

I can draw and design. As far as CSS and html are concerned, I believe to have a rather good knowledge, but only a basic understanding of php. I am not a programmer. Hence designing themes would be my way of contributing back to an open source project I like and hope to be working with in the future.

I hope you will consider my application.

Best regards
Thomas