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Wed, 03/19/2008 - 15:52
 Hey all i need some feeback on the default theme i'm going to create for ubercart. here's what i've come up with so far. http://drupalify.com/ubercart/ubercart-design.png i'm going to write some tutorials as i go on frontend development for ubercart. Should be fun. 
Re: Ubercart Default Theme
That's a nice, nice step-up from the current theme! Love the menu bar! And the search box at the top ... Bang on!
Re: Ubercart Default Theme
just a quick updated added the footer.
process suggestion
I prefer to begin the creative process when we are in conversation about these topics: 1. why are we doing this? 2. how will it be used? 3. how can we best give back / support ubercart usage. 4. more questions? thoughts? Lets get clear about these points so we can best focus our efforts.
Re: process suggestion
Some good points there magicspark I think the design is the best place to start as we can just edit a fireworks file rather than editing the css all the time.
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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. 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.
Re: Ubercart Default Theme
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.
 
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I must say that is one sexy theme, good work! I love the dropdown design, but if I were to make one little suggestion it would be to perhaps make the logo a bit smaller, it's just a tad to large. besides that everything looks great  
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Looks cool mykz- ...as my 2 cents, I'd love to see some cool buttons as well!
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Hey Thanks for the great feedback as always, it’s great to hear what the developers thoughts are regarding themeing. 1. Ryan i suggest cutting your hair lol and changing your picture icon to maybe a the ubercart shield which I have done just to push the branded logo more. 2. I think it’s a great idea to make the look different for the admin to the customers as when you login as admin you want more info displaying on the first page you visit unlike the customers where they need to be brought back to the main page. I’m really looking into how I want to setup the theme system as I might need to create two monsters like garlands. 3. The support side I will really help with as I found it really hard at first to find where to start and what was the right way to theme Ubercart over the last couple of days I’ve help people on the forums as much as I can with themeing but I thought I needed to do more so is released Nifty Products Tutorial Part 1. You can find the first part of the tutorial here. 4. Drupal 6 will be the challenge as I did a install not long ago and I did notice a lot had changed with the $variables they use now for themeing but I don’t think it would take to long to convert over ready for when Ubercart moves to Drupal 6. I also think it would be a great idea to have the colour picker to but I’m not sure how the module works would need to look into that some more. 5. The expanding cart on mouse over idea was added because when I tried adding the default Ubercart block to the header it doesn’t style right in the garlands theme what I want the Ubercart default theme to do is to style so you can place Ubercart blocks anywhere on the page and it will always look right the expanding block over content will only happen when you have the block in the header. I think it just gives people more of a choice on where they want their blocks. Abilnet the cool buttons idea sounds great I’ll be working on a buttons.css file so you can just jump in and un-comment the buttons for your Ubercart installation also I’ll be submitting a tutorial on how to mod the cart buttons using CSS. Thanks for the feedback guys
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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.  
Thoughts
Regarding the previous mentioning of the header I wonder if the logo could be scaled down by maybe 25% and the cart integrated into the navigation bar as a tab or just a floating bit, replacing the "My Basket" button which seems a little redundant.
Re: Thoughts
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.
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I'm also under the impression that the Ubercart logo is simply there as a placeholder, correct? Will we maybe use Image Cache to resize the end user's logo so it fits into the spot or something?
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The scaled down logo looks much better, btw whats the My Basket button for?
Hey Tom
The my basket button
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.
Re: Hey Tom
The my basket button
@James - Ahh, agreed. Perhaps we can simply put a recommendation in the install instructions for logo sizing. @mykz - Also, I'd recommend using cart instead of basket. There are some e-commerce usability studies that mention this as one of their top 10 things. Granted, I believe in the UK basket is used more... so maybe it could be optional. (This does get into tricky issues w/ multilingual sites, though.) You might also just examine this module as a way to easily add settings to the theme settings form: http://drupal.org/project/themesettingsapi
No Worries
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
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  
Hey mykz-
Any progress on
Hey mykz- Any progress on this? I thought it had been looking great... If you post it as a contribution we can all work on it a bit at a time.  
Re: Hey mykz-
Any progress on
I've been doing some theming with Zen as well so if you need any pointers let me know.
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Any progress on
Whats the current status on this project? I've seen references to a "Ubercart Default theme" on these forums, but i have no idea what that is. Are they referring to the theme that comes with the Installer version ?
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Has there been any progress with this default theme? I'm really struggling to theme the module as my template.php function overrides don't seem to be taking effect. I know it's wishful thinking but I was hoping themeing this module would just be a matter of copying the tpl files from the module into my theme folder and modifying them. That would make themeing this module really easy. I haven't been able to make the leap so far but I will keep trying!
Re: Re: Ubercart Default Theme
Actually, there have been e-mails with Top Notch Themes and others about a ready-to-use Ubercart theme on drupal.org. We'll be sure to announce it when it's ready and will include it in our Downloads section to make sure people find it!
Re: Ubercart Default Theme
Any progress/updates on this? Doesn't appear to be much happening on Topnotch site with respect to this project.  
Re: Re: Ubercart Default Theme
Yep, we just started on it http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/090519/kicking-ubercart-notch I posted a teaser image the other day to the project page: http://drupal.org/project/acquia_prosper
Re: Free Ubercart Theme
It's aliiiiiive! In progress screenshot attached. Things are taking a little longer than planned because we're creating it with our New Hotness theme system 2.0 rather than the previous process -- expect more news about this soon but you'll be able to configure a TON of stuff, like the block layouts and styles, in the theme itself
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...nice tease with the iPhone! Thanks for the update.
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I'm chomping at the bit to start playing around with this.
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Current progress: http://www.flickr.com/photos/topnotchthemes/3711326362/sizes/o/ beta = dev release on d.o. And the biggies on that list (cross browser/fluid/layout stuff) are 80% done. Later this week we'll be sending out some previews to some developers who downloaded our white paper and did the Fusion survey -- if you are an experienced Drupal user or developer and would like to make sure you're on the list for the preview (and can do a 15 min survey + provide feedback), please send me a PM. I'm also demoing it tonight at the SF Drupal meetup, if anyone's in the area
Re: Ubercart Default Theme
Where should I submit bugs? First thing I noticed on the dev version is ubercart catalog does not display correctly which you probably already know. Other than that I like what I see so far. Love some of the theme options like being able to choose font styles and sizes. Also the option to choose between fixed and fluid width! Very cool!
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Email's good for now. And yep, quickly realized that one We're doing a bit more page.tpl.php wrangling early this week but we're getting achingly close to that public dev version!
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Developer release is out. Woohoo! |
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) 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!
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