What do you want to see in Drupal Themes in 2010

Submitted by peach on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 12:44

Lots of interesting stuff has happened to theming Drupal Theming in 2009. The emergence of various theme shops, a pack of new basethemes, and a big improvement in the overall quality of the themes.

Drupal themes are getting better and it looks like this is an ongoing process. Just a few years ago everyone complained that Drupal themes were boring and all looked the same… Joomla and Wordpress were thought to have much better designs available.

From the support emails I get from my premium themes product line I’ve heard from many clients that they’ve switched from Joomla to Drupal because they finally found a theme that matched their needs, so for some users the quality of themes can be a factor of paramount importance for their CMS choice.

The Drupal project is growing fast as well and there is an upward trend in popularity of distributions, how will this affect theming? Are themes modular and flexible enough to play nice with distributions, or do distributions just need dedicated themes?

2010 brings many changes and I wonder how the theming landscape will evolve. Already I see that themes are getting more and more complex, almost turning into theme engines by themselves. This is not necessarily a bad thing but where will it end, I guess the best thing to do is try and get all these new theme features in Drupal 8 core!

What do you think will happen, or need to happen for Drupal themes in 2010?

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all i want to see is more

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 21:17.

all i want to see is more themes and lil cheaper (like 70$ maybe)
dont have to be all newspaper or magazine stuff like all wp themes are
must have simple themes too

comprehensive, eaily viewed theme site

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 00:41.

I've looked around quite a bit, and have yet to come across a single site that:

1) shows all (or most, or a lot of) Drupal themes
2) displays themes in an easily viewable table of thumbnails (almost all sites -- including this one) show themes in endless lists that I have to scroll and click through
3) lets me limit themes by attributes like 3-column, or whatever.

There are TONS of Wordpress theme sites like this, but the ones I've found for Drupal either only contain a handful of themes, or present themes so poorly that it's only worth looking at whatever is featured or recent.

ThemeGarden is terrible unless you already know the name of the theme you're looking for, or want to spend hours browsing.

I'm not familiar with any

Submitted by peach on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 22:08.

I'm not familiar with any sites that provide a nice interface to browser free themes, as you describe. The closes thing I know is drupalmodules.com, which is awesome but not for themes.

Can you post some links here, to the sites that you mean?

Thx

We at ThemeGarden have some

Submitted by Drupal Theme Garden (not verified) on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:06.

We at ThemeGarden have some plans to extend themegarden.org (taxonomy, better browsing ...).
If you have some suggestions, please send us your thoughts via contact form at http://drupal.org/user/109264