Drupal Base Theme Review. Lately it seems there has been a lot of activity with Drupal base themes.
Old favorites are being overhauled to adapt to changing techniques and standards. New options are popping up as well, looking to solve old problems in new ways. For those that aren't familiar with base themes, the idea is pretty simple. A base theme takes care of many of the common tasks - page layouts and CSS resets, for example - that are involved in creating a Drupal theme. Theme developers and designers can then create a sub-theme that builds on top of the base theme, thus saving a whole lot of work. To put this review together, I set up a test site on my local machine and installed a sub-theme for each of the seven base themes I decided to include.
I hope to update this resource from time to time, so if you know of a base theme or an important point regarding one of these themes that I've left out, please leave me a note in the comments. Zen As far as base themes go, Zen is the Big Kahuna. AdaptiveTheme Omega. Drupal 7.9 Theme Performance Test. Drupal Theme. Zen is a powerful, yet simple, HTML5 starting theme with a responsive, mobile-first grid design.
If you are building your own standards-compliant theme, you will find it much easier to start with Zen than to start with Garland or Stark. This theme has fantastic online documentation and tons of helpful code comments in its PHP, HTML, CSS and Sass. At many points in my Drupal career I’ve loved, leaned on & learned from the Zen theme. Version 5 takes that to a whole new level. - Jen Simmons The theme “Zen” turned out to be the public favorite and won the “Best Drupal Theme” title. - Award announcement for the Drupal Hall of Fame Award by Packt Publishing Zen now comes in two flavors!
Documentation The Zen theme is wonderfully documented. Drupal.org/documentation/theme/zen 7.x-5.x features at a glance: Note: There seems to be a conflict between some host installations of the SiteZen site builder and the Zen directory name which causes broken tabs, css files to be "not found", and other issues.
AdaptiveTheme. Responsive HTML5 Base Theme Adaptivetheme is a powerful theme framework designed from the ground up to power modern, cross browser/cross device websites using responsive design techniques.
Adaptivetheme allows you to set up specific layouts for different device groups - such as desktop, tablet and smartphone - all with zero coding. Its all easy point-and-click configuration. If you are using Panels try the Browscap CTools module to control the visibility of panel panes in mobile devices or Browscap Block to do the same thing with normal blocks. Panels, Display Suite and Gpanels are fully supported with many options for displaying panel type layouts in mobile.
Adaptivetheme is blindingly fast - it employs extensive use of drupal_static and other caching techniques to speed up page rendering and delivery. Adaptivetheme is built around these basic concepts: Responsive designPluggable layout systemHTML5WGAC 2.0 Accessibility Documentation Premium Themes AT Core Extended Version Information Drupal 8. Drupal Theme.