Drupal Blueprint Theme Coming Soon

25Mar2008
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Author: psynaptic

I've been working with Ted, aka, m3avrck on the Drupal Blueprint theme which should be released very soon!

The theme has been built to utilise blueprintcss:

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Some of the key features of blueprintcss are:

  • Reset default CSS
  • Sensible defaults for typography, forms and common elements
  • Typographic baseline
  • Customisable layout grid

This is the most complete yet bloat free CSS framework available today. If you're a user of Drupal I invite you to checkout a copy from CVS or just wait until it's fully released.

If you're not a Drupal user and are interested in how you can increase the productivity of your web development process, I suggest you download blueprintcss and see the benefits first hand.

This site uses the Blueprint theme with a slightly modified grids.css to change the default width of 950px to 830px. The excellent blueprint grid generator can generate replacement files so you can easily change the width of columns, gutters and the page.

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Bruce (not verified) wrote 2 years 23 weeks ago

Suggestion

A quick suggestion: the blueprint compress.rb script with its "semantic classes" feature makes it trivially easy to remove all the inline presentational classes from the theme. It'd be great if you could do that.

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psynaptic wrote 2 years 22 weeks ago

Good suggestion...

Thanks for the tip Bruce, I need to look into that.

The theme is very basic right now and I expect it to advance after the initial release. I just heard from Ted and he says he is looking at releasing the 1.0 next week.

Any more advice, tips and help would be very welcome.

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Bruce (not verified) wrote 2 years 22 weeks ago

OK, sounds good. FYI, I got

OK, sounds good.

FYI, I got stuck on a little wrinkle, but here's an example of config settings that worked for me:

  semantic_classes:
    "#header": ".span-24, div.span-24, .top"
    "#content": ".prepend-2, .append-1, .span-11, div.span-11, .first"
    "#sidebar": ".span-8, div.span-8, .last"
    "#footer": ".bottom, .clearfix, div.span-24, .span-24"
    "#comments": ".box"
    ".comment-meta": ".quiet .small"

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psynaptic wrote 2 years 22 weeks ago

Thanks for that, Bruce. I'll

Thanks for that, Bruce.

I'll delve into it for our next project.

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Anonymous (not verified) wrote 2 years 17 weeks ago

what version is on the CVS?

great! i thought boilerplate is more suitable for such project
http://code.google.com/p/css-boilerplate/

i would like to give blueprint a go from the CVS. what version of the theme for Drupal for on the current CVS? -since there is no .info file there

thanks

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psynaptic wrote 2 years 17 weeks ago

Drupal 5

The current version of the Blueprint theme is for Drupal 5.

I've seen Boilerplate but not had a chance to try it. I'm pretty happy with Blueprint but learning another CSS framework would be good.

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Steven Vu (not verified) wrote 2 years 15 weeks ago

Forum doesn't appear correctly?

Is this happening for anyone else and is there a fix?

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George Chatzimanolis (not verified) wrote 2 years 15 weeks ago

Drupal Theme

What happened to the Blueprint - Drupal Theme?

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psynaptic wrote 2 years 15 weeks ago

Post to the issue queue

Hey Steven, if you could post an issue in the issue queue that would be best.

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psynaptic wrote 2 years 15 weeks ago

It's coming soon!

@ George: It is coming, I assure you of that. Sorry for the wait but Ted is a very busy guy. As they say, "it's ready when it's ready".

You can grab the theme from CVS if you need to start using it today.