xoops FACTORY

This is a screen i made for a relaunch of my studiocreativ.de which might be an example for a small business site using XOOPS. It’s a more personal layout showing a basic body of a person. The logo is still missing, actually I’m working on a pixel logo with a body nearly shown with the layout.

There will be some information about the people behind studioC and some examples of work, forms to contact or to order more detailed information and perhaps a news section. The page isn’t online actually, I will sure inform you when it’s done.

Finally, xf_openWeb is ready for download. It has been online on xoopsfactory’s demo site for some weeks now but finally managed to pack it for free download.

Actually it is a flexible width theme, so take care of what you display in centercolumn. Look into modultemplates and look for clearings which should not be there and for tables width=”100%”. This may force the content to be displayed after the content of left block.

I just finished to prepare download of xf_April theme. Look HERE for more information and download. The XOOPS theme is available as *.zip and *. tar file and you will find an extra download of a static [x]HTML version (the static files are included in xoops theme version as well). Image sourcefiles are included so don’t wonder why the paket is as big as it is.

I’m actually playing on my static playground.

I made some screens in the past weeks and will put them into running xoops themes, once the time to make static files is over. This is the first from may 2006. It’s called xf_simple. Basicly it’s a two-column layout left aligned fixed width 765px. But we can show an absolute positioned right block for eg. Adsense. The main content area is first after topnavigation in source. This should be nice to read for screenreader and searchengines.

Starting with the first available variation of my theme xf_openweb, I made a static version which is centered and fixed width. This will be the next themedownload including static [x]HTML example files. The static example consists of 3 static pages with different blocksettings; left, left+right, none, to express some different (possible) blocksettings and combinations in our blockadministration.

I’m actually making a static example of a new layout which is a fixed width left aligned theme. Basically it is a theme that will fit 800*600 resolutions but with the possibility to activate a right block for eg. Adsense.

The right block is positioned absolute outside the 800*600 screen. Main content is first after Top menu in source so sreenreader and searchengines will love that themefile.

xf_YelloW_C is ready for download. You should be a fan of colour Yellow to like this theme, but it is easy to modify this theme and change colours when you have some skills in editing css files and changing images to different colours, though. It is valid [x]HTML transitional and CSS.

Credits and thanks go to solardreamstudios.com for using the idea of the horizontal menu and to openclipart.org for using some images i found there.

xf_greenGrass is released today! It is a 2 column Layout with the main content coming first in source. The photo used in this theme was made by myself and you could use it without restrictions when you want.

The theme is able to display modules you want like forum eg. without any sideblock by settings in blockadministration of our preferred content management system. It’s clean, fast and simple and of course, valid W3C and CSS tested.

As said in the last article, i will beginn to release my themes additionally as a static version to make it easier to use it as static theme or within other cms and weblogs.

Another CSS varitation which i made in the last days and which is actually running on the demo site. All in all it’s the same source i’m using now a long time and which is running very fine.

What is a CSS theme?, i’m frequently asked. Saying “CSS theme” I mean, that it does not use tables for positioning things. But there are tables within the source! Yes there are! The theme itself does not use any tables. Content and layout is divided from each other in a cms. In the content, the outut of XOOPS, there are tables used to display “tabular data” (though still [sometimes] to position things).

Another CSS driven XOOPS theme without any usage of tables for positioning things is ready for download. The idea behind this theme was, to have a different blockusage. Depending on the blocksettings, you will have a left and right block or full size of theme (770px) without any siteblocks which is nice for a forum eg. The centerblock right is below a cleared aerea and it will be displayed full width of theme.