Those who have visited Spread Firefox will know that it has a very nice theme, designed by Chris Messina (a.k.a. FactoryJoe). Since SpreadFirefox (also nicknamed SFX) runs on CivicSpace, it is behind Drupal in releases, and hence is at 4.4 or so now. After some persuasion (i.e. bugging Chris), and offering to work on the theme and bring it up to 4.5, he agreed, and I have been hacking at it for some time. It now works with 4.5 and Drupal CVS (pre-4.6).

Features

A lot of effort has gone into refining this theme. Some features of this theme are:

• Minimum width imposed, but accomodates wider width as needed.
• Works well in IE, Safari and FireFox.
• Requires the PHPTemplate theme engine.

Code

The results of the above port are now in CVS: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/themes/spreadfirefox/

The project home page is at: http://drupal.org/project/spreadfirefox

Status

This is work in progress, and not final by any means. Chris an myself decided to release it in accordance with the release early, release often open source philosophy.

Volunteers needed

What we need is for themers, graphics designers, and style sheet experts to work around the rough edges in it, and refine it more and more. We also need testers to play with it and find the bugs, and open issues.

I am not a theme design person. My work on this theme was just to update the tpl.php files to get them to work with 4.5 and CVS. I can continue to change the code if needed, but CSS is not my forte.

Attention: Drupal developers who are attending the upcoming DrupalCon in Belgium: please discuss this theme with Chris, who is attending, and lend him any hand you can.