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...

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