That's a nice, nice step-up from the current theme! Love the menu bar! And the search box at the top ... Bang on!

I prefer to begin the creative process when we are in conversation about these topics:

1. why are we doing this?
a. to create an out of the box powerful and usable solution
b. educate new drupal users on best theming practices
c. brand awareness and positioning

2. how will it be used?
a. users will download it and hack it apart
b. probably need photos to work well, get our imagecache worked out
c. it should also be developed with back-end / admin reporting in mind.

3. how can we best give back / support ubercart usage.
a. more documentation
b. use cases (quick starts, how to's)
c. start a killer ui / widget set for selling
d. evolve the uc positioning, 'powered by ubercart' integrate this in the ui / interface.
e. the footer is really important

4. more questions? thoughts?

Lets get clear about these points so we can best focus our efforts.

Just another quick update of how the shopping cart mouse over will work

http://drupalify.com/ubercart/ubercart-design-cart.png

On mouse over the menu will dropdown with the products as shown below.

Thanks tom-d

I'll be working on the design more over the next couple of days.

I can weigh in with a few thoughts, but I think you guys have some good energy and a much better understanding of theming than I do. I'm excited to have you guys around!

1. Agreed. Brand awareness is huge... we've gotta move the brand away from "Ryan's hair" to the Ubershield and a recognizable look/feel. (I was amazed at how many strangers I met in Boston who knew me by my hair. ) Education here is icing on the cake to me, and I'd love for Ubercart to be known as a good resource for folks looking to theme their stores!

2. Making it easier for administrators would be awesome. This has been a problem where we have so much info on the screen... fixed width and/or extra-spacious themes just don't work so well. I'm open to anything here... I've been suggesting Bluemarine as an admin theme, but building some of this into a default store theme would be awesome.

Also, I'd love to have a package available here at Ubercart.org that folks could download that would include the default theme. I'm more than happy to share some credit and link referral love with anyone who contributes to the effort.

3. Use cases would be key. A lot of questions in the forums are "How do I...?" I think it would support Ubercart and make your job easier to combine the answers w/ instructions on theming Views. In the long run, I think we'll need to get more robust documentation of using Views w/ your store to handle some of the promotional type needs.

Also, just noticed in one of the new screenies how you worked the Ubercart reference into the footer. Very slick, and I appreciate your inclusion of it.

4. I'm not sure if any of the themers have Drupal 6 experience, but it might be worth it to consider how to best create a theme that will migrate easily into Drupal 6. I won't be of much help here, but you can always refer to this page and other parts of the Drupal ecosystem to get some clues. Maybe it's not that big of a deal, but I've heard D6 is a huge improvement over D5.

Also, Lyle had brought up the idea of color module integration. I'd make this a minor goal, but brainstorming for the future it would be rocking to integrate the color picker in the future. I don't know the complexity of getting this into a theme, so I'd probably say w/ 99% certainty that this shouldn't be worried about in the initial theme.

Thanks again for all your efforts!

I'd love to hear what others think about the expanding cart block over content. I'm not sure that it's necessary, but I certainly wouldn't be opposed to its inclusion. I'm just curious if anyone would have an adamant "no" or if they would just place it somewhere else.

Cheers.

Forgot to mention this above, but zmove has done some cool work theming his cart and checkout pages to include a walk-through of the checkout steps at the top of the page. You can view this by adding this product to your cart and checking out his pages. He's done some great work there, and he might be a good resource for any other Ubercart themers.

This sort of feature might be a good candidate for consideration in a default store theme.

Thanks for the comments james

I've scaled down the logo some more.

http://drupalify.com/ubercart/ubercart-design-c.png

The My Basket button I'm going to look into how I want that side of the site to function.

I would think if the CSS can be as fluid and accommodating that would be ideal, forcing a resize of the logo would be a bit intrusive I think.

Hey Tom

The my basket button will appear when you have items in your basket this will only show when you don't have the shopping cart block turned on.

If you guys have anymore ideas for that space don't be shy post about it.

Hey Ryan

All the Text will be changed when the theme goes from an image file to CSS/HTML.

I’m going to be working on the design this weekend as I have some free time so I’ll uploading my process.

I’m hoping to show some shots of the catalogue pages and maybe more if I have the time.

Awesome, Shawn. Would definitely let ya know.

I think I can speak for Ryan and Lyle on this count, don't worry yourself about working on things tomorrow. We'll all be enjoying Resurrection Day/Easter Sunday at our respective churches and would encourage you to do likewise.

Hey all

Sorry much hasn't been worked on recently I’ve started a new job and I’ve had to move so my pc has gone into storage and my new laptop should be on its way this week YAY!!

I haven't forgot about the theme I’ve been writing down idea's and have a big list of notes I’m going to go through when the new laptop is up and going

Also if anyone would like to help with css/html and have used the Zen theme engine or have done any themeing before could they drop me and e-mail