Being a front end person, I usually feel awkwardly caught between two worlds that I'm sort of a part of, but not quite fully integrated with. I'm not a designer and I can't do all develpment work. I'm always trying to branch out into more development work. However, I've been feeling creative and the urge struck me to also dip my toe into the design waters, just to see how I would fare.

All of the work I do is corporate, so there is hardly room to use all of the fun, "cutting edge" features I read about. I also adore color but never get to play with it.

I'll tell you, traveling to Paris for Drupalcon was worth it for mortendk's session on markup alone. Not only did it include gratuitous amounts of David Hasselhoff, but I admire anyone who can tell a community of thousands to STFU.

I've gotten quite a few replies on Twitter each time I tweet about a new theme I'm working on from people looking for a redesign for their Drupal site. I hate to disappoint, but I'm not a designer. I wish I was, but what you're going to get out of me won't be terribly pretty.

However, if you would like a redesign for your site I'm always looking for new designs to theme and to contribute. So if:

1) You have designed something or have found an open source template* you'd like,
2) It is a clean design that could be of use to many Drupal users and

Well, I have finally created a theme for this site and may have set a world record doing so - it took me 1 hour, 15 minutes from start to commit! Granted, it was an open source design and it is far from perfect.

I will probably clean up the code a LOT and contrib it soon. The HTML/CSS it shipped with hurts me just a bit. I think the colors are nice and it makes for a good blog template. Anyone particularly interested in using it? If you prod me I may get around to it more quickly. :)

After a failed attempt to design myself a decent theme today, I went searching for a theme for this blog. Garland is now starting to get to me!

Though I've gone through every page of the list at http://drupal.org/project/Themes, I've not yet found a theme that is suitable for this blog, though I did manage to put together a list of what I think are the most visually appealing Drupal themes contributed to date.

I've spent the majority of my time the past year and half theming sites, yet I haven't come up with a theme for this site!

I guarantee that one is coming and, for those who may be confused about the site title, this IS actually a Drupal site. It's a bit of a geeky joke. If you're not familiar, Garland is the theme that you are looking at and is bundled with Drupal and probably the most recognized Drupal theme.

I've been theming in Drupal for about a year and a half and am finally contributing my first theme!

The biggest deterrent up until now has been time - the last thing I wanted to do after a full work day of theming was go home and theme more. However, this has become easier for me recently. At The Economist, along with our adoption of agile development and Scrum we've implemented 20% time to contribute back to the Drupal community. This theme is the first product of my 20% time.

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I've grown quite annoyed by having to override the same system.css (and other System module stylesheet) declarations every time I create a new theme. (I have had to type .form-item enough times WITHOUT getting rid of the styling that Drupal provides by default, ok!) While creating the Ecobusiness theme I decided to create my own Drupal System Reset CSS.