Developers web site UI look and feel

Submitted by mberger@mit.edu on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 11:52

I chose a different theme on the developers-dev.mit.edu site. I don't like how it does the breadcrumbs, but I like the rest. Please take a look and tell me what you think.
- Mike

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Theming in Drupal

Submitted by aphickey@mit.edu on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 09:59.

To change the look of the breadcrumbs, you can write a short function in your template.php file in the theme folder to implode the breadcrumbs with a different divider. We use one in the IS&T site which returns " implode(' / ', $breadcrumb) ", which puts "/" between crumbs.
If Roopletheme doesn't give you access to color changing in the web interface, then you can probably change the colors in the css for the theme, if not in the templates themselves.
Unless you are trying to avoid customizing a theme altogether. In which case, ..... never mind.

I am OK with that look.

Submitted by sml@mit.edu on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 12:05.

It's a standard Drupal theme, which Drupal-heads might notice. I have no pride of ownership just because I chose the first theme.

I don't think we should change it just because no one said not to though. I would like some active input... anyone? anyone?

My two cents, I'd like to see

Submitted by alister@mit.edu on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 14:13.

My two cents, I'd like to see a theme that reflects MIT a little better, and also something that's a bit lighter. Organizationally this camo-theme is pretty good, but visually (especially color-wise) it's too weird and too dark for me. I'm also not a huge fan of the fixed width, which leaves large areas of hunter-green color on the sides of my monitor.

That being said, it seems most out-of-the box or even custom downloadable themes are never quite what we want. The one on dev right now is okay, and I really like how it stretches the content (looks better on my widescreen monitor I think) but it has some other issues that are a bummer. (mono-chromatic, navigation treatment not great, has a druple logo for a background... etc)

Right now, Mike and I are playing around with custom themes. I got a local drupal installation for windows going using xampp today, so hopefully we can try and modify one of these themes to something that's noticeably better.

As an aside, if there's anyone on windows who wants to play with local drupal development, let me know - I now have a zip file that when extracted gives you xampp (apache,mysql,php,etc..) with drupal pre-installed.