GerryBot: A free minimalist theme for Drupal
Written by gerard on Saturday 27 March 2010
I promised a while back that I would make the theme I use on this site available for free download.
Well, here it is. Called GerryBot, it's a very minimalist one-column Drupal 6 theme. The original concept behind this theme was to have as little as possible on the page to distract from the content. Some of the features are:
- Single column design, but with support for blocks in the sidebar underneath the logo.
- Only two regions for blocks - in the sidebar area or underneath the content. Remember, the goal is to reduce on-page clutter.
- Primary links at top of page, secondary links at the footer of the page.
- Content area is 500px wide, uses 14px font size for good legibility. Body is a subtle grey shade, and the inner content area is white to focus the eye on the article.
- Based on a 960 Grid layout.
Now, the theme is in 'beta mode' at the moment. I've never packaged a Drupal theme before, so I really would appreciate your feedback.
Download
Installation
Usual Drupal theme installation advice applies:
- Unzip the archive and upload the gerrybot folder to your Drupal site to sites/*/themes
- Log on to Drupal as the administrator, go to Site Building -> Themes. Activate the theme (set it as default too) and then click Save Configuration.
- Visit the homepage of your site and the GerryBot theme should now be applied.
Feedback
Whether it's aesthetic details of the theme - font-sizes, colours of links, etc, or if GerryBot is missing support for common styling elements that occur in Drupal. Just let me know - either in the comments to this page, or use my contact form.
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Gerrybot Drupal theme by Gerard McGarry
Comments
Thanks a lot for make this
Thanks a lot for make this theme open.
BTW, a few days before, I saw your SEO post displayed in Drupal.org's aggregation. This theme attracted me a lot, and I am theming a similar theme based on Fusion and Chinese calligraphy. My theme will be open later too:)
Very nice theme. Thank you
Very nice theme. Thank you for sharing.
Nice and simple theme, thanks
Nice and simple theme, thanks for posting!
Nice job done,
Nice job done, congrats.
Question: how this theme is licensed? Is it GPL-ed? If it's under GPL, it could be nice that you commit your theme to drupal.org.
I'm happy to GPL the theme,
I'm happy to GPL the theme, absolutely. But how does one do that, and don't you need a SVN account or something to commit the theme?
It's not svn but cvs, and you
It's not svn but cvs, and you can find guide at http://drupal.org/node/262432 (yes, you need cvs account, but you could get one)
Impressive minimalistic
Impressive minimalistic design, that's what I need. I love it!
Thank you very much, this will be the theme of my blog with a little modification: I think, the dividers in the bottom of the nodes are unnecessary, and not so minimalistic.
Of course, I will indicate the original creator's name. :)
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