Preconfigured Xtemplate Skins for Drupal

cel4145 | Wed, 06/02/2004 - 21:46
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Yesterday, I posted up some Xtemplate skins for Drupal 4.4.x. There are now over ten, some variations on the others, all of which are included in the DrupalEd and DrupalBlog package downloads. Some are original; others are adaptations of other themes. Some are fixed width. All support 2 or 3 column layouts. And all are GPL'd or Creative Commons licensed.

But to make things easier, I'm pulling each of the individual zip files I put up earlier and put them all together in one tar gzipped file for download: xtemplateskins-4.4.1.tar.gz. Some thumbnails which lead to full screenshots follow:

blue_mark blue_mark
bluesolid bluesolid
candidblue candidblue
cyber3 cyber3
earthtones earthtones
lotsagreen lotsagreen
purplestuff purplestuff
redbrick redbrick
rubric rubric

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Nice Work

Posted by MegaGrunt@www.d... on Fri, 06/04/2004 - 12:20

I haven't played with these yet but the PNGs look great. Nice to have some more high quality Drupal templates.

I'm sure Rubric will become a blog favourite!

rubric, etc.

Posted by cel4145 on Fri, 06/04/2004 - 12:49

thanks! know that i didn't go crazy with the css customization--for instance, the archive calendar and forums are still default. just some basic css adjustments. have to leave the real customization up to the professionals, like in pushbutton ;)

as for rubric, that's a poor attempt on my part to adapt the WordPress theme by that name (it was gpl'd). just doesn't look as good when trying to do it with tables as in xtemplate.

update xtemplate skins

Posted by cel4145 on Mon, 06/07/2004 - 13:31

i ran the skins through the w3c validator and had to fix a few things. all should be CSS2 compliant now. the download file has been updated to reflect the improved CSS.

Are these available for Drupal 4.5?

Posted by rjpa on Wed, 09/08/2004 - 13:43

Hi,

I would really like to use the theme "bluesolid" for my Drupal 4.5 (latest cvs) site, how easy is it to convert the theme to work on 4.5 (cvs)?? Any directions, or is it already done? Thanks for some great themes. Thumbs up for you mate!

Cheers
rjpa

Have not tried 4.5

Posted by cel4145 on Wed, 09/08/2004 - 16:04

I can't tell you how hard it would be. And I wish I could say if/when I'll convert any of them. Part of it will depend on how difficult it is to work with the new themeing system. I really don't think it will be that hard, but you never know.

If you do port any before I do, let me know :)

ported Bluesolid

Posted by manal@www.manal... on Sat, 01/22/2005 - 19:35

I ported Bluesolid today, to drupal 4.5

u can check the result @ http://www.e-socialists.org

It was very easy, after reading the drupal handbook on upgrading the themes from 4.4 to 4.5: http://drupal.org/node/8605

1. after u upgrade to drupal 4.5, u put the theme directory under themes/ (ex: themes/bluesolid/)

2. then u rename the xtemplate.css to style.css

3. edit the xtemplate.xtmpl file to replace all the avatar section with the picture section as mentioned in the drupal handbook, replace all "static" with "sticky", and add the logo, site_name and site_slogan section tags (u can have a look at how it is done in the bluemarine/xtemplate.xtmpl)

4. edit the style.css file and replace "avatar" with "picture", and "static" with "sticky".

I think that's all, still testing it though

cheers, Manal