I have been asked by Emma to create a Drupal theme and implement some order into the website.

Originally the website used the default Garland theme, which is ok for pimping drupal to new people, but not so much when you start using it for your own sites.

What follows is the ideas I have for this sites appearance and workflow interface.

Colour Scheme

Undecided, but most likely will integrate the colour picker widget to allow for customisation via admin gui.

Layout

Here I present a quick mockup of the page layout concepts I had in mind. Although the colours might not be the ones that end up being used, I would like to keep the general idea of the following page layout sections.

Primarily the page layout is centered on the page.

Portals

• (/, /home),
• /blog,
• /events,
• /links,
• /wiki,
• /user/$userid$

These sections of the website will make use of the panels module to move their layout decisions away from the code editing of php and css files into the admin gui.

The content they generate comes from various queries created with the views module.

Frontpage : Features

Nodes that are taking the "spotlight center stage" are marked "promoted to front-page"

Only three will appear on the front page at this point in time, maybe more can be accommodated with a jquery slideshow plugin like (supersized)[http://www.buildinternet.com/project/supersized/].

Frontpage : Mission

This space typically never changes in purpose and should always be hard to miss when visiting the frontpage

Frontpage : Recent Blogs & Comments

Recent blogs and comments from the last month.