Topic “design”

When I redesign my blog, I like to release the previous theme out into the open for anyone to make use of. I did this last year with the Orange Mint theme release and it worked out well.

Attached below is a zip file of my “Black & Blue” Drupal theme. The code is licensed under the GPL so you are free to do with it as you wish. I just ask that you link back to my blog if you make use of it :)

So why not commit this to Drupal as a theme project? Well I have no intentions to maintain it, no desire to extract into a more generic and usable theme, and I have to catch plane to San Francisco in a few. But, if you want to make and extract this into a Drupal project, by all means please do. Enjoy!

About 9 months ago I redesigned this blog unveiling the black & blue theme (picture 1 & picture 2). For a while the redesign was great and reflected my current state of mind—the previous year had been a bit bumpy and the black & blue was to be symbolic of the “bruises” along the way.

With this new design, however, things are starting to blossom and I am entitling this new design “Spring Breeze” —- indicating a refreshing amount of new change coming in the next few months, which I will be blogging about in more detail when the time comes. Not to mention, I can’t wait for the tracks to reopen :D

As noted in my previous post, the previous ts theme, called “Orange Mint” is now available for download :-)

Well it’s been almost a year since this site has had an overhaul. The previous design, “Orange Mint” was a 4.7 beta site and held up well over the past year, despite it being very out of date.

With all the changes going on in my life (forthcoming blog posts to explain more) I decided to redesign this site and upgrade it to Drupal 5.

This new design I call “Black & Blue” and reflects a more mature me, overcoming various “bumps and bruises” over the past year :-)