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Author:JurriaanRoelofs

Datum:16-3-'10

Tags: 
planet
garland
drupal 7
drupal theming
durpal 7 theme

Poll: Super-Garland or Supersede it?

edit: from the large number of votes I'd say many people feel strongly about this, feel free to comment if you want to voice your opinion about Garland.

Was just thinking of creating a new free color module theme for Drupal 7.

Garland is very popular but perhaps people have seen enough of it. There is a strong argument for keeping Garland and doing a simple make-over: Garland is a part of the Drupal brand, it's what Drupal looks like out of the box and updating* it could be an easy and value-adding move to Drupal core (Maybe for 7.1 or as a contrib option?).

If I were to start anew I (or we - would love to work together with someone on a theme) could make something with some more flashy graphics and the popular lighting effects** decoration looks like an evolved style of what Garland does:
This could yield a cooler theme that has the similar marketing value to Drupal that Garland had 3 years ago, or it might turn out to be a bridge too far in terms of flashyness and thus not be as popular as Garland.

Creating such a graphically intensive theme would also take about 3 months for me as opposed to 4 weeks for a proper Garland update. Also, I can't get anything done in time for a Drupal 7 release candidate because of my schedule @ university.

Just playing with ideas and checking for animo.

* Adding animated dropdowns, extra regions, Skinr integration, fixed/fluid/sidebar width theme settings etc. etc. Like the drupal themes at my site.
** like http://newism.com.au/ or http://www.strutta.com/

Author:JurriaanRoelofs

Datum:8-3-'10

Tags: 
planet
superfish
dropdowns
mega dropdown
drupal theming

Better Dropdown Menus for Drupal

I'm working on a new framework for dropdown menus and I'm running out of ideas. So far I got:

  1. Animation on showing as well as hiding the menu (superfish only supports on-show)
  2. Automatic configurable multi-column dropdowns. When number of items in a submenu exceeds set number a submenu is 2 columns, or 3 columns. (will look like http://www.whitehouse.gov)
  3. Added support for custom easing, including the additional easing from the jQuery easing plugin and some homebrew easing*.
  4. Animated properties are configurable (widh/height/opacity)

So what cool menu feature would you like to have on your next Drupal site? drop your idea in the comments!

*my new and favorite dropdown easing:

  easeInOvershootTurbo: function (x, t, b, c, d, s) {
    if (s == undefined) s = 1.70158;
    return c*(t/=d)*t*t*((s+1)*t - s) + b;
  },
  easeOutOvershootTurbo: function (x, t, b, c, d, s) {
    if (s == undefined) s = 1.70158;
    return c*((t=t/d-1)*t*t*((s+1)*t + s) + 1) + b;
  }
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