Ok, I’ve revised my previous assessment… After printing out all the pages of code that come with the Binary Blue theme I realized that the code appeared to be “bloated”. Now, understand, I’m not a real coder. Not yet. But there is something about how a code looks that, well, it either makes me feel in control and relaxed or confused and frazzled. I guess I like to code like a girl. Unfortunately, BB code just makes me want to clean it up so I can see the forest for the trees, and that can’t be good.
So, after a lot more research, I have decided the this 3 column, 2K theme is a much better starting point for the mock up design I came up with yesterday. The style’s still a long way from looking the way I want it to, but the code… I printed it up. I felt my world ordering itself out of chaos, and a cool breeze arose out of the heat to stroke my brow. I think I have found a starting point.
If you want a blank template you can use something like the Yahoo GRID CSS stuff for a clean starting point. I have a tutorial on a two column version on my site now and am working on a tutorial for a three column version soon.
http://www.blkmtn.org/node/336
Thank you for the link! That is a very nice place for me to start, I think, with my new Drupal installation. I wonder if Yahoo UI is a little like Ruby on Rails? An AJAX development platform? Of course, I really don’t understand what Rails is yet…I’m still a babe in the scripting woods.
Another good place to start, at least code wise, is the foundation theme:
It would be an interesting exercise to take this theme, and then try to integrate some of the nice-looking features you like from another theme.
Most excellent. I love a “blank” with lots of possibities… So, I wonder if I developed a pretty theme with this, could I re-release it to the Drupal community on its own? I’m very interested in contributing to the community.