
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.
Thanks a lot for make this
By Anonymous (not verified) on 28 March, 2010 - 04:01
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
By Anonymous (not verified) on 28 March, 2010 - 20:23
Very nice theme. Thank you for sharing.
Nice and simple theme, thanks
By Anonymous (not verified) on 29 March, 2010 - 00:28
Nice and simple theme, thanks for posting!
Nice job done,
By Anonymous (not verified) on 29 March, 2010 - 13:04
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,
By gerard on 29 March, 2010 - 13:40
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
By Anonymous (not verified) on 2 August, 2010 - 11:23
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
By Anonymous (not verified) on 2 April, 2010 - 13:08
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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