Testing Needed For New Drupal Theme 'Kupo'

I will soon (hopefully within the next 2-4 weeks) be releasing Kupo. This will be my first publicly available Drupal theme via drupal.org.

I know that testing of Drupal themes and modules is generally an iterative process which happens once the theme or module is available for download, but thought that it made sense to catch any blatantly obvious problems before an initial release.

So, please feel free to click around the new theme and let me know what you think and/or find.

18 comments

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Wim MostreyMay 15th 2008 @ 01:02PM

It would actually be a good idea to release the theme already so people can test it in their own environment. There's nothing wrong with releasing early and ofter, and creating the official and supported 1.0 branch in 3 or 4 weeks. Now the only testing can be done with the pages and modules on your demo site. That way, people can not test how it looks like with tagadelic, tinymce, views, panels, profile, ...

I must admit it looks really great, even the forum. Nice work!

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justinrandellMay 15th 2008 @ 01:23PM

nice!

are you considering any variations? like fixed width, or columns on right and left?

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TimMay 15th 2008 @ 01:54PM

I think the skip to content should be a plain link not a button style link.

I also think the logo, title and slogan should go horizontal not vertical.

The theme you are using on this blog is better (sorry) why dont you release this? just without your watermark.

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Island UsurperMay 15th 2008 @ 02:13PM

Heh, made an account over there to post about this, but I'll do it here.

The home link in the breadcrumb points back to http://lhmdesign.com/. That may just be an effect of the environment the site is in, but it was surprising to say the least. The other "Home" links point to /kupo, so that's ok.

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LaurenceMay 15th 2008 @ 02:33PM

Hi, thanks for all the comments so far :)

@ Wim - fair point about the testing. I'll get it released as soon as possible.

@ Justin - yes there will be both a fixed and fluid width version (like Garland and Minelli), and the columns are interchangeable - so you can have one, two, or three columns on either the left or right.

@ Tim - no need to apologise! I'm not going to release my blog theme as it's part of my identity/branding, and as such I want it to be unique.

@ Island Usurper - nice spot - I will correct that, as I guess (sadly ;) not everyone will want to be re-directed back to my own site!

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Drupal Theme GardenMay 15th 2008 @ 02:59PM

Nice.

Suggestion:
You could add min-width for layout.

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FGMMay 15th 2008 @ 03:19PM

On Opera, the logo + title area is too small and displays a horizontalscrollbar which obscures about 20% of the total height.

This looks quite similar to a problem in Bluebeach appearing on some project pages like the release edit form.

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all drupal themes - peach May 15th 2008 @ 03:55PM

Wow nice theme, I love the design!

Please put it up for download somewhere and then I'll run it through my theming-sandbox to see if it can withstand my test setups.

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LaurenceMay 15th 2008 @ 04:38PM

@ Drupal Theme Garden - there will be a fixed width version as well, but I guess you mean a min-width on the fluid version - correct?

@ FGM - thanks, I'll check that out :)

@ All Drupal Themes - glad you like it. I'll release it as soon as possible, and do another post to let people know where it is on drupal.org.

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Viking KARWURMay 16th 2008 @ 04:43AM

Hi... I love to help...
Need your info...

Thanks & greetings from Jakarta - Indonesia

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Drupal Theme GardenMay 16th 2008 @ 10:46AM

Yes, I mean a min-width for fluid layout (in order to prevent "collapsing" of main region when browser window isn't big enough).

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Nathan HaugMay 17th 2008 @ 06:05AM

Looks great! Thanks for contributing this amazing theme to the Drupal community!

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LaurenceMay 17th 2008 @ 05:46PM

@ Viking - thanks, either check out the Kupo live demo now, or else I'll be glad of testing once I release the theme via drupal.org (hopefully pretty soon)

@ Drupal Theme Garden - OK gotcha, thanks

@ Nathan - Thanks, I'm glad you like it :)

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DorianMay 19th 2008 @ 06:17PM

seems to check out well in firefox 2.x on mac

15
JafarMay 20th 2008 @ 04:04PM

Look's OK in IE6. Is that a final design of your theme (including the color) ? For me the blue color seems too shiny

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SeanMay 21st 2008 @ 05:49AM

Nice! Is this a drupal 5.x or 6.x theme?

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LaurenceMay 21st 2008 @ 12:05PM

@ Dorian - thanks

@ Jafar - the design is final for now. I understand that the blue might not be for everyone so I'm looking at either releasing alternative color schemes or perhaps attempting to integrate the color module functionality which Garland has. However, I will initially release the theme as is

@ Sean - thanks, it will be both 5.x and 6.x

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ChadJune 4th 2008 @ 12:20AM

Looks awesome. You should institute these Tabs for the wow effect. These are hot! http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/03/clean-tab-bar-digg-like-using-css.html

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