Looking for a new Drupal 6 theme
It is that time of year again! I want to change the look and feel here at CMSReport.com. My current theme, LiteJazz from RoopleTheme, has served me well this past year. I'm now looking for a theme that provides two columns to the right of the body (content on the left side). Something along the lines of the contributed Drupal theme Marinelli is what I'm seeking.
If you have a good suggestion for a Drupal 6 theme that you think would be perfect for this site, please leave your suggestion as a comment or contact me. Also, if you are a theme designer, you're welcome to take this opportunity to advertise your product (within moderation of course). I'd prefer a free theme for my site but I'm always open to a quality theme at the right price.
Here's one to consider..,.,
NewsFlash from RoopleTheme is one of my favorites. Although it is a classic left-content-right theme, I suspect it wouldn't be too difficult to modify it to provide a content-left-right structure.
http://demo.roopletheme.com/newsflash/
Edit: I just did modifications for content-left-right and seems to be working fine. If you want a copy of modified theme, let me know.
NewsFlash
Hi Harry,
I'm using the NewsFlash theme for an Intranet project I'm working on and would rather not use the same theme here. However, I still be curious to see your change. I'll email you so you can send an attachment when you reply back.
Folks, I'm still looking at options for themes. Anyone else out there with suggestions?
I'm using the modified
I'm using the modified version at:
http://hrpr.com
No Metadot?
I notice no mention of Metadot Portal Server in the list of CMS system to the left up there. Perhaps because it is so much more than just a CMS but a full blown CMS Intranet/Extranet Portal Application with user and group access, flexibility and ease of use. Why has not one heard of it?
re:No Metadot?
have to agree with this. Was very impressed with metadot. Worked straight 'out of the box', easy theme/skin changing, etcetc. + seems flexible.
I've looked into several CMSs recently and I'm sold on Metadot. Excellent.
I'll take a look at Metadot
I'll take a look at Metadot when time allows. No promise though that it will make the top 30 list.
Looking at Metadot
Bryan,
Thanks for thinking about reviewing Metadot. I didnt realize when I made the comment about it that you had a list of top 30. I just thought you were listing CMS products you had seen. Well, hopefully it will live up to the hype we are giving it and you will find it good enough for your list.
Thanks
Metadot Comments
That was quite a striking endorsement of Metadot. It is quite powerful and flexible. I think the one thing that is to its detriment is the need for the Perl Modules that have to be installed. Not all web hosts offering Perl have installed them. This often makes it difficult to run on a shared hosting account.
Good to hear that others can see the value of this tool.
Great comments...
New life in LiteJazz.?
There were very few responses to my inquiry about what people would recommend for a new Drupal 6 theme (thanks Harry for the input). I was originally looking for theme with two sidebars to the right of the content. However, I decided that perhaps the best thing I could do was see if I can drop down to one sidebar and continue to use LiteJazz.
In order to reduce the amount of information in the sidebar...I'm currently putting the 30 CMS in "CMS Focus" via a drop-down menu from the header. Does it work as far as being user friendly?
-Bryan
Works for me! Think it's much
Works for me! Think it's much cleaner and easier to navigate than previous layout. And highlights site's purpose in life. I'd even consider making it the first entry on menu.
Also, I'd consider doing same thing with Blogroll.
P.S. do you still want a copy of my modified version of Newsflash? I'm just about done having my way with it! Let me know...
Blogroll
Hi Harry, I'm taking many of your suggestions and continue to make changes with the menus. Do you have a link that you would like to be included in my list of blogs?
I really do like the changes you're making to hrpr.com. Considering Newsflash is GPL and you've made a lot of significant changes...it might be good to consider submitting it as a contributed theme at Drupal.org or back to the folks at RoopleTheme. At the very least, a link from your download page. If you're not considering any of that...sure I'll take it via email.
Blogroll... I have two blogs
Blogroll...
I have two blogs that I try to keep up with but neither specifically addresses CMSes. One ( www.halfvast.com ) is a personal blog with posts going back to 1999 where I post everyday life kind of stuff....there is some technical content but it is sparse.
The other is at www.hrpr.com/blogs/prophead and deals with IT stuff in general. I guess this one might be a candidate for the blogroll.
Theme...
What I'm leaning toward is to make it available via my download page and also send a copy of it to RoopleTheme and let them decide whether they want to "productize" it or toss it into their "bit bucket."
Blog link
Hi Harry,
I put a link up to your Prophead blog. Every now and then, I go back six months taking a look at the comments/stories and see who has been contributing lately. Thanks for your contributions!
-Bryan
Thanks...
Thanks Bryan....
A download of the modified version (HrprFlash)) of Roople's Newsflash is available at my download page ( http://portal.hrpr.com/downloads/drupal-... ).
Blogroll
I found that placing the links to external blogs in the drop-down menu was difficult to navigate and too many levels in the menu tree. From now on, I'm going to place the blogroll solely on the Blogroll page.
move the sidebar in lightjazz
I found this on the roople forums, but can't find the post at the moment. I took notes though and this change does work fine for me with my litejazz site (currently I am not using two sidebars but I was and there were no problems).
I modified the page.tpl.php file, which is in the root of the theme directory.
find the section of the file that begins with:
(your comment formatting will not show some of the code properly....it is interpreting some of the strings and leaving them out.....replace all instances of LC.. with < and RC.. with > ....sorry for this confusion but this is the only way I could show you this with your commenting setup....)
LC..!-- /section1 --RC..
LC..?php endif; ?RC..
LC..div id="middlecontainer"RC..
I took the left sidebar section and moved it from the beginning of this division so that it comes just before the similar section of the right sidebar section. This part of the modified code now looked like this:
LC..?php if ($sidebar_left) { ?RC..
LC..div id="sidebar-left"RC..LC..?php print $sidebar_left ?RC.. LC../divRC..
LC..?php } ?RC..
LC..?php if ($sidebar_right) { ?RC..
LC..div id="sidebar-right"RC..LC..?php print $sidebar_right ?RC.. LC../divRC..
LC..?php } ?RC..
This should be right before the closing LC../divRC.. tag for the "middlecontainer"
I'm sure you could just take the right sidebar section and move it up to come right after the left sidebar section to create a similar two "left" sidebars.
Hope this helps!
Dave