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[Eddie Geller <reddit.pac@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, these are fantastic.

Here's one I like:
http://themeforest.net/item/smooth-drupal-6-premium-theme/full_screen_preview/222318

And here, again, is Josh Utter's contribution:
http://themeforest.net/item/politico-html-campaign-business-template/full_screen_preview/142562

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> my contributions to the 'select a theme' pile, roughly in descending order
> of preference.  comments follow each:
>
>
>    1.
>    http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/simple-organization-website-template/
>       - minimal
>       - nice block treatment
>       - nice comments treatment
>       http://templates.arcsin.se/demo/simple-organization-website-template/comments.html
>    2. http://demo.themesmania.com/?theme=city_magazine
>       - would recolor header obviously
>       - excellent block treatment, good text treatment
>       - styling for drupal types (this is a drupal 6 theme)
>       - extreme layout flexibility:
>       http://demo.themesmania.com/city_magazine/content/block-flexibilitys
>    3.
>    http://themeforest.net/item/solid-business-solution-htmlcss-template/full_screen_preview/233219
>       - minimal
>       - nice block, text treatment
>    4.
>    http://themeforest.net/item/brightness-html-theme/full_screen_preview/236692
>       - minimal
>       - decent text, block treatment
>    5.
>    http://themeforest.net/item/creative-design-portfolio-gallery-html-template/full_screen_preview/212409
>       - text should maybe be darker, bigger
>
>
> /dust
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:40 PM, dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> with regard to selecting / evaluating themes, i wanted to suggest some
>> guidelines:
>>
>> things to focus on:
>>
>>    - header style (logo area (we'll use our own logo), menu and
>>    navigation styles)
>>    - text treatment (font styles, font sizes, text spacing, link styles
>>    and color, header styles)
>>    - block styling and spacing (side bar spacing, border styles)
>>    - available regions (is there a styled footer? a styled side bar?)
>>
>> things to pay less attention to:
>>
>>    - pictures on the site
>>    - how content blocks happen to be laid out
>>       - if there are three footer blocks, we can have four, etc
>>       - if there is a side bar on the home page, we can remove it for
>>       that page, etc
>>       - regions can be enabled/disabled on any page
>>
>> in other words, realize that the theme we pick will define how things *
>> can* look.  we will be able to move things around in any theme.
>>
>> /dust
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:41 PM, dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> #1 : group communication
>>>
>>> *requirements:*
>>>
>>>
>>>    - documentation of static information: what we've built, who people
>>>    are, etc
>>>    - calendar of upcoming events: meetings, meet-ups, important dates
>>>    - task management: what tasks are open, who is assigned to what
>>>    - off-line discussion: conversations not in real time
>>>
>>> *
>>> implementation*
>>>
>>> solution 1)
>>>
>>>
>>>    - documentation: drupal books (wikis)
>>>    - calendar of events: drupal entities with date fields
>>>    - development task management: launch pad
>>>    - development discussion: launch pad
>>>    - non-development tasks: drupal (a la our issue tracker on beta)
>>>    - non-development discussion: drupal forums / organic groups
>>>
>>>
>>> *add notifications to drupal
>>>
>>> solution 2)
>>>
>>> dedicated 3rd party software (to be researched by eddie)
>>>
>>> #2 : status of /r/rpac
>>>
>>>    - change /r/rpac to /r/osdf once site launches
>>>
>>> #3 : site theme
>>>
>>> - find a good theme on the web and skin our site with it
>>>     - possible sources:
>>>         - http://themeforest.net/
>>>         - http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/browse/popular/
>>>     - toast, kage, eddie, moparx will pick a set to vote on
>>>     - others can contribute candidates if they wish
>>>
>>>
>>> /kage
>>>
>>
>>
>


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