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[dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx>]

i've got some advice to chime in with here based on some experience with
drupal theme coding:

   1. assuming the site is going to be more than a front page (i.e. there
   will be a blog, nested comments, tag clouds, forums, user profiles,
   whatever) using an established theme with CSS that handles these displays is
   immensely helpful and will provide a more professional look in the finished
   product.  sky <http://sky.graviteklabs.com/> is a well-established drupal
   theme that (as you can see from the linked demo site) handles many of these
   cases - so building a customized theme based on sky will save a lot of work
   and yield professional results quickly.
   2. if there is some important need to build a theme from the ground-up,
   using a framework theme such as zen
<http://drupal.org/project/zen>provides a good framework for hooking
into the markup that drupal outputs.
   from the zen documentation: "The idea behind the Zen theme is to have a very
   flexible standards-compliant and semantically correct XHTML theme that can
   be highly modified through CSS and an enhanced version of Drupal’s template
   system."

/dust


On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Toast McFarland <toast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I have uploaded some sample code for the new drupal theme template to
> https://code.launchpad.net/~daimoneze/osdf/drupal-theme. See the
> "static-pages" directory. Please indicate in launchpad if you're going to
> help code the theme.
>
> -Toast
>
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