Drupal Themes by ThemeShark.com

Well, it looks like I've got a choice to make. In my last post, I mentioned that I was currently working on a new starter theme for ThemeShark.com, the base upon which all of our themes will be built for the next few months. Not a starter theme with the bulk of a complete framework, but something a little more straight forward and elegant.

I've got a list of things I'm including or, at least, want to include. First and foremost, I've got responsive , grid based design on my mind, and right now it looks like there's a good chance the Skeleton Boilerplate by Dave Gamache is going to provide an excellent foundation.

But I'm at the point where I need to decide between XHTML and HTML5. After doing some initial tests with pre- existing HTML5 Drupal themes, I was a disappointed to discover something I hadn't already been aware of: HTML5 doesn't get along well with the RDF module.

For awhile now I've been thinking about putting together and releasing an official ThemeShark framework . Branded frameworks are very popular within the Wordpress and Joomla premium theme community at the moment , and it seems like all of the big name theme developers have rolled one out at some point. So should ThemeShark do the same for Drupal?

Maybe we should. It could certainly generate interest and bring in some extra business, and it would probably make the updating the themes to the lastest version of Drupal a bit easier. But here's the thing: it seems to me like it'd be a bit redundant at best, and a self-indulgent waste of time at worst. And I'm just not convinced that anyone would really care.

In honor of the brutally cold and miserable month of Februray (if you live somewhere warm and sunny, keep it to yourself, jerk), we've got a new deal: buy one, get one free. Just add two single-use licenses to your shopping cart, and you'll get the second for free. And if you add two, get two free. And so on!

Oh, and if you've bought a single-use license in the last week or so, e-mail us and we might consider hooking you up.

Also don't forget to check out our new free theme, Blacksea. You can also grab it at Drupal.org if that's what you're into.

This month ThemeShark.com is giving back to the Drupal 7: we're very pleased to announce the release of our latest free Drupal theme, titled Blacksea. We've come a long way since our first free themes Amity Island and Sandtiger. We think this might be one of the best free Drupal themes now available.

Head on over to the Blacksea product page where the theme pack is available for download. The pack includes the theme, a distributing of Drupal 7 for setting up a replica of the demo site found on ThemeShark.com, a export of the Slideshow view for use with the Views Slideshow module, and a Setup Guide.

Time again for another theme release. This one's called Galia, and it was designed with blogs and content sites in mind. It includes the usual ThemeShark features and quality, five different color styles and some special attention to the Service Links module and the Ajax Comments module. There's also custom view for related articles embedded in the node pages, and custom themed view that creates a block of the most popular content. Like last month, we opted not to include a slideshow, but instead a Featured article banner at the top of the page (a controlled by a themed view).

Check out the demo here.
Buy the thing here.

Announcing the release of November's Drupal theme, Neptune. This month we eschewed our usual layout and Views Slideshow to bring you something a little different and a bit more cutting edge: a slick looking, animated jqeury grid. This would be great for a blog or content site - and through it was designed with a fluid, liquid layout in mind, it can work equally well by switching to a fixed width in the theme settings. Includes five color styles.

View the demo here.
Buy a single use license here.

Hey there, Drupal fans.  We've got another Drupal 7 theme for you this month: Amoeba.  It's another crowd pleasing, general purpose theme that uses Views Slideshow.  You'll also see that the demo is using the Service Links and Follow Site modules to good effect.  Go ahead, take a look.

Another note - it's likely that from here on in we will only be building themes for Drupal 7.  While I'm aware there's still a few modules that haven't yet caught up, and a few of the hardcore developers are still getting use out of D6, it's clear to us that the vast majority of our customers have now moved to D7.  

Today ThemeShark is pleased to announce the release of our September drupal template, Flyingfish.  I'm particularly fond of this one, and I think it might be our best yet.  It's a bright, eye-catching, showcase oriented theme that should work great for a variety of different projects.  But I think I'll let the theme speak for it self - check out the demo.   

Just a quick post to let everyone know that Coralreef is now available for purchase under a single-use license: http://www.themeshark.com/drupal-themes/coralreef

Our August theme Coralreef is now available to Standard and Developer Club members.  It'll be available to Single-Use buyers in early September.

There's a couple things about this theme that may be a bit unexpected: for one, it's Drupal 6 only.  We wanted to do a social networking drupal theme, as requested by several customers, and after taking a careful look at the state of Drupal 7's modules decided that the best bet would be to go with D6.