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A new Drupal theme, and a peek at Drupal Jumpstart...
Blog by Jeff EatonJuly 4, 2008 - 11:06am
With the release candidates of CCK and Views now available for Drupal 6, the assorted 'Bots are busy updating several chapters of the upcoming Drupal Jumpstart book with the UI and subtle functionality changes in Drupal 6. I'm currently putting the finishing touches on Chapter 8 -- it will walk readers through building a product reviews web site. Along the way, we've decided to use a different contrib theme for each chapter's sample site, to provide some visual flare and help readers quickly spot which site is which when thumbing through screenshots in the book.
For the Product Reviews chapter, I stumbled across an awesome new Drupal 6 theme named Nitobe. It was designed by Shannon Lucas of Four Kitchens Studios, and it's a clean, attractive theme with a lot of potential for customization. Among other things, it offers quick-and-easy selection of custom banner images at the top of the blog. While the release of the Garland theme with Drupal 5 brought us color customization, not many themes have made it easy for users to pick custom header images without doing their own CSS tweaks. Now I want to use it on all of my random sites...
Comments
Slightly off topic but is it
Slightly off topic but is it really necessary to run a check_plain on the $site_name variable? One would think this has been validated already?
From Nitobes page.tpl.php
<h1><a href="<?php print check_url($front_page); ?>" title="<?php print check_plain($site_name); ?>"><?php print nitobe_alt_word_text(check_plain($site_name)); ?></a></h1>Nitobe problems
Howdy y'all, I love this theme and am using it to update my blog at http://sandwichescorner.com, but am having a problem with getting the comments to work properly... is anyone else having this issue? There was a fix a couple of weeks back but I'm not having any luck implementing it
The ease of changing header images does rock though
Comments problem in Nitobe--reply to comments not working
I love the way this theme looks, but am finding that there is no "reply" link to the comments that are posted. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know.
Nitobe comments problems are fixed in latest upgrade
A friend of mine pointed out to me that the comments problem is fixed in the latest upgrade, which I was not aware of. The Upgrade is nitobe-6.x-1.8-beta1. All is working now.
Ooh, I love it.
Okay, this theme is awesome for someone who wants to put up a blog quick and easy. I just put it on my own site as I recently upgraded to 6.2 and haven't had a chance to create a theme. I think I actually might just stick with this it's so nice looking and the header thing is awesome.
Unfortunately its probably
Unfortunately its probably one of the best base-themes ive seen for Drupal... I am not sure what it is but the majority of our community is horrible at designing from the websites I have seen produced.
If you can do better, start contributing :)
Anyone (anyone at all) can contribute a theme of their own. http://drupal.org/theme-guide will get you started, and http://drupal.org/node/262432 has everything you need to know once you're ready to give it back. :) Looking forward to your gorgeous themes!