Theme development

I am developing a small personal website for drupal that presents my work (texts and images). I like Drupal as a CMS, especially as it implements taxonomies, and would like to use it to run the site.

But to be perfectly honest, the templating system is driving me crazy. I'm used to using systems like MT, wherein one can write simple CSS based templates and just plug the MT strings in. Drupal, on the other hand, is slightly voodoo in its use of templates, and everytime I hack an existing template something gets broken.

Since my knowledge of php is non-existent, hacking themes is bewildering. As such, I'd like to find someone to provide theme development for me. I'm interested in a theme that is easy to rearrange, and in which site-wide consistency is emphasized. For example, I'd like to be able to move the search box into a block, or present it above the side-bar. I'd like to have a front page that is not a node (i.e.: an independent static page or flash file, etc.). Style sheet switching would be useful as well. Initially, the theme could be editable only through coding (in other words, that there are no 'readymade' options in the theme module (mission statement, primary links, etc.)

Ultimately, the theme could be contributed back to Drupal for use, if that proves attainable.

Anyone who might find this interesting can email me at drupal@tmq.info. If you're not interested, but know of someone who might be, don't hesitate to let me know.

Disclaimer: This is a cross post from the "New Template
System" issues list. It is intended to encourage discussion, not as an
attack on anyone's current implementation.

All,

I just spent the last THREE YEARS figuring out how to "do" themes
correctly. I couldn't ever get the CMS engine the way I wanted it so I shelved
it. Here are my recomendations and thoughts on the matter:

I wanted to approach "themes" from an entirely UNoriginal perspective:
I went back to my high-school days and dug out all there is to know about Newpaper
and Magazine Design. I even talked to Tim Harrower, author of Newspaper
Designer's Handbook. Tim is largely considered THE guru on Newspaper layout
and design. He recently redesigned the Wall Street Journal amoung other. You
can find out more about it on his website.

After several conversations I came up with the following IMMUTABLE law for
internet publishing that almost EVERYONE ignores (except maybe high-end Zope,
Bricolage, Vignette, etc. sites).

Law #1: There MUST be a seperate workflow for design/layout and content creation/publishing.
The folks that do newspaper and magazine design/layout belong to the "production"
department. The folks that actually generate the photos and articles belong
to the "editorial" department. The product of the editorial department
is handed off to the production department for design and layout.

Hi all,

I've installed the Themedev module but can't get the associated stylesheets to display. Here's what I've done:

I'm looking for a business/corporate theme for my website. I havent the creative patience to design one myself. I'm wondering if any designers out there have some good Drupal themes for sale, or would like to discuss a design with me. If you are interested, shoot me an e-mail at matt@nrgtek.net, to discuss what i'm looking for and what your compensation in return would be. Thanks a lot.

At the risk of asking a dumb question ....
I can't get the block menu list styles to respond in my xtemplate .css file
For testing I have just been trying to change the colour.
Now, I have found the following in drupal.css

Does anyone have any idea where I can download more themes?

Does anyone want to help me out on a UK daily news website?

I've installed drupal with no problems, just trying to make the site more userfriendly etc..

Get back to me if you can help.