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• bartl
  
  

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  Posted: Jul 23, 2009 - 09:48 AM

  My current theme is based on the unfortunately buggy Seabreeze. I am looking for a new theme to substitute; my Smarty skills are pretty close to zero, and my CSS skills are, well, I can work with manual in hand.
  
  What I am looking for is, frankly, something similar to Seabreeze: Bar across the top for the logo and a few buttons, 3 column, full screen width (I am not really sure the reason behind the popularity of themes with thick left and right margins; a lot of people do not have widescreen monitors).
  
  I am not asking for anybody to do research, but if you are already using such a theme or know of one without having to look it up, I'd appreciate knowing about it, rather than loading a couple of dozen themes and trying each one individually.
  
  Thanks!
  
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• craigh
  
  

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  Posted: Jul 23, 2009 - 02:43 PM

  easiest way is to look through the themes in the extension database. I know that sounds like a cop out a little, but how are we to know your tastes? Check here. I know this because I just had to go thru and select a couple new ones myself. it doesn't take long.

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• bartl
  
  

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  Posted: Jul 25, 2009 - 07:51 AM

  craigh

  easiest way is to look through the themes in the extension database. I know that sounds like a cop out a little, but how are we to know your tastes? Check here. I know this because I just had to go thru and select a couple new ones myself. it doesn't take long.

  
  That's what I started with. The problem is that there are a few where the screen shots look like they use the whole screen, but when I click on the demo versions, they have margins on the side (parenthetically, can anybody tell me why wasting a big chunk of screen space is considered to be a good idea?).
  
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• bartl
  
  

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  Posted: Jul 25, 2009 - 07:53 AM

  craigh

  easiest way is to look through the themes in the extension database. I know that sounds like a cop out a little, but how are we to know your tastes? Check here. I know this because I just had to go thru and select a couple new ones myself. it doesn't take long.

  
  That's what I started with. The problem is that there are a few where the screen shots look like they use the whole screen, but when I click on the demo versions, they have margins on the side (parenthetically, can anybody tell me why wasting a big chunk of screen space is considered to be a good idea? I know it appears to be SOP on many CMS sites, but a lot of my potential viewers have older or narrow screen monitors, where the side margins would render things like the forums virtually unreadable).
  
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  Bart Lidofsky

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Jul 25, 2009 - 07:59 AM

  Hi,
  on zikulathemes.com you can test drive the themes and view screenshots.
  
  Just an example, the kubick open source theme:
  http://www.zikulathemes.com/kubrick/gallery/loremipsum/
  
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  campertoday.nl, Module development, Dutch Zikula Community

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• bartl
  
  

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  Posted: Jul 26, 2009 - 07:54 AM

  Thanks espaan; that gives me the ability to check out for myself. I think I'm going to start the question of margins on a separate thread.
  
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