Under active development

Partial feature list:

• More preprocess hooks for manipulating template variables. Drupal 6 only provides one. Hexagon adds two more. pre_preprocess invoked before the default preprocess function and re_process which runs after.
• Granular separation of support files for better management of code. Template variable processors or "preprocess" functions can be grouped into files based on the module that originally implements the template. For example, variable processors for the template "user-profile.tpl.php" and "user-profile-category.tpl.php" can be placed in "user.common-vars.inc" ("user.theme.inc" in versions 1.5 and above for theme functions and variable processors.). It can also be very granular by naming them based on the template name itself, "user-profile-category.vars.inc".
• Plug-ins for commonly used functionality across multiple themes. This is where snippets specific to theming become obsolete. Once a plug-in is created, all you need to do is enable them in your theme's .info file. Common functionality can be shared and specific components can be overridden for individual themes.

This is a re-implementation of the Interactive Media theme by Luka Cvrk. This is a tableless, multi-column, fluid width layout. Parts of the design are ported from Contented7 and Internet Services theme. This theme is part of the project PantaRei Siren.

Installation

(2011-07-25) This theme is now revamp as Zen subtheme (http://drupal.org/project/zen). You will need to install it with this theme as below:

• interactive_media 7.x-3.0=> zen 7.x-3.1
• interactive_media 6.x-2.0=> zen 6.x-2.1
• interactive_media 7.x-3.x-dev => zen 7.x-3.x-dev
• interactive_media 6.x-2.x-dev => zen 6.x-2.x-dev

A Quick Review

• 100% open source
• Validate with XHTML 1.0 and CSS2
• Fully tested with Acid2 compatible browsers, e.g. Firefox 4, IE 9, Chrome 11, Safari 5 and Opera 11
• Most likely function with legacy browsers, e.g. Firefox 2/3, IE 7/8, Chrome 9/10, Safari 3/4 and Opera 9/10
• Support multiple (i.e. 1/2/3) columns
• Support both fixed, fluid and liquid width layout
• Support 960 Grid System
• Minimum layout width depend on number of columns
• Support both LTR and RTL layout
• Support custom CSS file, so-called custom.css
• Support multiple block regions in Drupal 7.x style
• Fancy icons for meta data from spirit20-GPL

Author

• Developed by Edison Wong
• Sponsored by PantaRei Design

The Beginning theme has to be considered as a blank canvas. This theme is for designer artist. Designers can begin theme designing, web designing without worrying about theme structure, layout and responsiveness as per device width. This theme is for those design artists who want to simply focus on graphic elements, colours, and styling. Very easy to customize without learning any new stuff. Designer don't even need to be understand @media query and various breakpoints for RESPONSIVE, MOBILE design.

Theme developer can use sub-theme (child theme) Instead of editing "Beginning" theme. I create a sample sub-theme Shiv for this purpose at here -https://www.drupal.org/project/shiv

Theme is develop by Shivcharan Patil (Shiv) of shiv.work and itApplication.net.