For some of our pages, it is desirable to stick to the corportate webpage design, so we created a matching Drupal theme which has served us well so far.
Finally, to return something to the Drupal community, we removed the trademarked logos from the theme and include favicon and logo as necessary by Drupal themes' "logo" and "shortcut icon" options, and plan to publish the vanilla theme on drupal.org.
The codebase can be accessed at http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/other/websvn/listing.php?repname=Drupal+UA+... trunk/waves.info should give a good overview of the capabilities of the theme.
An example page runs on http://twna.ua.ac.be/.
Comments
Comment #1
nschloe commentedComment #2
avpadernoHello, and thanks for applying for a CVS account. I am adding the review tags, and some volunteers will review your code, pointing out what needs to be changed.
As per http://drupal.org/cvs-application/requirements, the motivation message should be expanded to contain more details about the features of the proposed module/theme, and it should include also a comparison with the existing solutions. You should then add a screenshot of the theme.
Comment #3
nschloe commentedI'm not sure if I understand this correctly:
Comment #4
avpadernoThe purpose of the requested information is to verify the application before to check the content of the archive attached here. In the case of a module, it would be probably possible to make a comparison with existing modules by reading all the code, and looking for a module with similar purpose.
Comment #5
nschloe commentedI perfectly understand the need of this for modules to avoid duplication, but *themes*?
Okay well, I'll add a sentence or two about the features of the theme and will post it here.
Comment #6
nschloe commentedI can't seem to edit the original page, so here's the second draft:
============================== *snip* ==============================
We at the Maths and Computer Science Department of the University of Antwerp use Drupal for somewhat more than a year now, and are generally very happy with it. The official university web pages use a proprietary CMS which we find is in many way inferior to Drupal. Particularly, it is based on a tabular design.
For some of our pages, it is desirable to stick to the corporate web page design, so we created a matching Drupal theme which has served us well so far.
Finally, to return something to the Drupal community, we removed the trademarked logos from the theme and include favicon and logo as necessary by Drupal themes' "logo" and "shortcut icon" options, and plan to publish the vanilla theme on drupal.org.
We're basically looking at a three-columns layout here with a static wave-like page header here. Header and content region are separated by a purple strip which hosts the primary links if set. It also supports display of page name and slogan, primary links, secondary links, and the display of a logo at the top left.
An example page runs on http://twna.ua.ac.be/.
The codebase can be accessed at the WebSVN interface.
trunk/waves.info should give a detailed overview of the capabilities of the theme.
============================== *snap* ==============================
Cheers,
Nico
Comment #7
nschloe commentedI understand that drupal is notoriously "understaffed", so it might not be unusual to wait more than a month for a CVS account. -- Right?
Comment #8
tlattimore commentedHello nicomat, thanks for applying for CVS access. I am trying to review your submitted theme, but I can't seem to get it to extract properly. When the .tgz file is extracted, I just get an empty folder with a ".tgz.OUT" file. See screenshot.
Could you resubmit a another version of your theme, maybe in a .tar?
Comment #9
avpadernoI didn't have any problems to extract the archive.
I am attaching here a .zip archive, hoping it could be useful for tlattimore.
Comment #10
nschloe commentedWhoops! The original file is BZIP2 zipped; find a proper gzip file attached, although kiamlaluno's version should be alright as well.
Comment #11
nschloe commentedAaaand another for weeks since the last reply here. Hmmm.. Is that b/c of the summer holidays?
I really just want to contribute my code here.
Comment #12
michelleYell at me if you want but Drupal needs to attract more themers and keeping them sitting in a queue for 3 months isn't the way to do it. Approved.
Michelle
Comment #13
jensimmons commentedThis: http://drupal.org/cvs-application/requirements is a terrible document for how-to-contribute themes.
??????
Yeah, that's what we want to do, scare off people wanting to contribute themes by asking them to survey all other existing themes, and write up a technical description defending why their theme is unique.
This is an example of epic fail.
Thanks nicomat for sticking around! We are just trying to figure out how to best adapt a process created for module development to the theme & design world. We aren't there yet :P, but we are getting better... your critique of the process in comment #3 and #5 will help us do that. So thanks.
And props to Michelle for finding this issue and fixing it.
Comment #14
michelleI can't claim any props... I just caught his plea for help on IRC. This whole system is just such a mess. :(
Michelle
Comment #15
avpadernoSo far, no proposed theme has been rejected because it was duplicating the work done in other themes.
Probably, somebody who would propose a theme that is a slightly modified version of Garland would see his / her application rejected; the requirement doesn't report the degree of the duplicated work that is acceptable because that depends from the project type.
Comment #18
avpaderno