Monday, November 15, 2010

Drupal: Easy Themeing with Fusion

The more I'm using Drupal, the better I understand why a lot of developers choose it as a top choice when it comes to creating community-driven websites. And another great tool at our dispense for creating Drupal sites is the Fusion theme.

From the project site:

Fusion is a powerful base theme, with layout and style configuration options built in that you can control through Drupal's UI. It's based on a simplified 960px or fluid 12/16-column grid. It's designed to be used with the Skinr module, with numerous useful block styles included.

  • Your layout is completely taken care of with lots of regions and cross-browser compliant configuration of layout through the GUI -- set block width, alignment, and position with a few clicks!

  • Includes commented "starter" subtheme for easy CSS theming

  • Includes theme settings for fonts, page width, sidebar widths and layout, sub-styles, and developer options

  • Default block styles mean you don't have to re-code the same common features for menus, lists, footers, callout text, etc.

  • Also includes plenty of helper classes for easier theming


One of the best Fusion subtheme I've used so far is the Mix and Match Theme. It offers a lot of color options which is really helpful when you want to develop a site without too much hassle creating the design from scratch. The Fusion theme along with its available subthemes gives a very flexible design configuration for any web developer or designer minus the hours and hours spent on testing out CSS stylings and compatibility issues with the dreaded IE older versions.

So if you want to design & develop Drupal sites faster, do check out the Fusion theme. Read more about it here.

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