Re: [Tiki-devel] New theme possibilities?

[Jonny B. <jo...@ti...>]

Hi Gary

I had intended to reply to your mail to the artwork list, just ended up as another dead stub in my drafts folder, sorry... (and almost did again! :)

It doesn't sound like anyone's leaping forward with a new theme sadly, and it would be a considerable effort, so i guess we're staying with fivealive-list for a while, which thanks to various people's efforts (thanks) is looking a lot better on the 13.x tiki.org sites now i think.

For me, it's only really the logo & sitetitle that's looking a bit outdated and/or out of place - i liked the Luci's suggestion of changing to have a small monochrome (white) logo in the top left of the navbar. Any one else?

Of course, if anyone is thinking of creating a new theme, don't let this put you off!

jonny

p.s. for Tiki 14 we're working on a way of making navbars like this without having to use custom html, but that's still not quite working yet... so watch this space! :)



On 28 Sep 2014, at 10:58, Gary Cunningham-Lee <ga...@cu...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I posted a message like this to the Tiki-artwork mailing list 10 days 
> ago or so but didn't get much in the way of replies so I'm sending it to 
> the other lists for a wider audience. At the last webinar we talked 
> about how the Tiki project sites look and about themes, etc. Luci said 
> he wants to clean up FiveAlive-lite as used at the sites, but also there 
> seems to be a strong desire for a new theme. (Actually FiveAlive-lite 
> should be improved as much as possible anyway, since it's a distributed 
> theme as well as being used at least for now on the project sites.) So 
> in view of the quickly approaching release time (branching at the end of 
> October and release in early December, I believe), if anyone has plans 
> to design, create, commission, rip off (that's a joke), etc. a new 
> theme, please do so very soon.
> 
> Also it was mentioned again at the TikiFest how intertwined theme design 
> and page content are, so anybody designing a theme also needs to think 
> about how much and what kind of content should be displayed at the 
> sites, regarding layout and appearance. The example of joomla.org was 
> brought up in some discussion recently. At that site, the theme itself 
> is pretty minimal - as are many current sites - and visual impact relies 
> a lot on typography and white space and content images rather than heavy 
> theme backgrounds, window/box chrome and other graphic elements. But we 
> also want a distinct Tiki brand/appearance, so there's the challenge.
> 
> -- Gary
> 
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