Date added: 2008-09-04 | Hits: 1166 | Rating: (0)

Author's Website XHTML Transitional Valid CSS Drupal 5 Themes 1 Column Fixed Width CSS-Based Layout

Blueprint is a starter Drupal theme meant to make development of custom themes faster.

Features

• normalizes Drupal’s CSS to be consistent
• properly aggregates all blueprint CSS files into a single file when this setting is enabled
• put scripts at bottom of page for nice performance gains, read more: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom
• flexible layout, from 1 to 3 columns, based on where you configure your blocks to show (left, center, right)
• SEO optimization without the need for heavy modules and additional queries per page
  • automatically adds META description to many pages, read more: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with...
  • automatically adds META keywords if taxonomy exists on that node, read more: http://searchengineland.com/070905-194221.php
  • avoid duplicate titles in search indexes for pager pages: http://www.seo-expert-blog.com/blog/avoiding-duplicate-title-tags-on-pager-pages-in-drupal
• better forum icons, http://drupal.org/node/102743#comment-664157
• improve forum display and performance, http://www.sysarchitects.com/node/70
• prevents duplicate form submissions with jQuery, read more
• shows the # of comments below a node since Drupal doesn’t do this by default (usability)
• add permalinks to each comment
• highlight any comments by the author of the node
• adds a “you need to login / register” box below all comments if you can’t add a comment (usability)
• supports conditional comment subjects, if the setting is off it won’t show a chopped off title of the comment
• uses CSSEdit http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ comments for grouping of styles
• lots of comments and theming tricks in template.php to learn from :)