Video demo of new Drupal Gardens theme builder features

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Some of you may have seen the first Gardens video posted a couple of months ago that shows a pre-alpha version of Drupal Gardens. This new demo video shows you some of the new features we've added to give you more control over the design of your site theme. We want you to be able to design a site with a home page that looks different from interior pages. It's fine for a blog site to have the same layout on all pages, but other kinds of sites need a home page that looks different. The demo also shows the fine-grained point and click controls you have in theme creation - how you can change the style of an element site-wide or very specifically.

Take a look and let us know what you think. More videos to come. Thanks.

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Junior Hemelaer

Interface looks very

Posted on December 11, 2009 - 9:26am by Junior Hemelaer.

Interface looks very user-friendly, nice new feature...would love to get my hands on a testing environment.

More technical people (developers) however will still make changes in the CSS file(s) I think, but Drupal Gardens has a larger audience of course.

Keep the features coming!

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Linea Rowe
Acquia Staff

There is an Advanced tab

Posted on December 11, 2009 - 9:56am by Linea Rowe.

There is an Advanced tab where you can add your own CSS. Here's a screen shot.

Thanks for watching the demo.

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Junior Hemelaer

I can see the Advanced tab

Posted on December 11, 2009 - 1:12pm by Junior Hemelaer.

I can see the Advanced tab in the video, but I can't seem to find your attached screenshot.

UPDATE: screenshot link is now active. Thanks!

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Mark Woodward

Some sort of sandbox would

Posted on December 11, 2009 - 9:44am by Mark Woodward.

Some sort of sandbox would indeed be welcome. The video is nice, but actually playing with it would be more enlightening?

Mark

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Junior Hemelaer

This week a few testing

Posted on December 11, 2009 - 10:13am by Junior Hemelaer.

This week a few testing slots were available. I hope to get a slot filled in the future invitations :)

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Linea Rowe
Acquia Staff

We'll make sure our Designer

Posted on December 13, 2009 - 8:11am by Linea Rowe.

We'll make sure our Designer knows that you're interested. btw, I added a link to the Advanced tab screenshot.

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Chris Charlton

The target styling feature

Posted on December 11, 2009 - 7:23pm by Chris Charlton.

The target styling feature is awesome. I am a fan of the "All blocks" text when describing a CSS style that repeats. Good job!

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Linea Rowe
Acquia Staff

Thanks Chris. The target

Posted on December 13, 2009 - 8:14am by Linea Rowe.

Thanks Chris. The target styling feature was a tough one to implement from both the UI and technical standpoint, but we kept pushing to get it right since people are going to need it.

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Tom Geller

What Chris said. :) I can't

Posted on December 16, 2009 - 10:50pm by Tom Geller.

What Chris said. :) I can't wait to try this out... and then poke through the CSS it creates. Will that be possible?

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Haggai Philip Zagury

Can't wait to try it out

Posted on December 21, 2009 - 3:58pm by Haggai Philip Zagury.

Can't wait to try it out myself.

Although it looks

Posted on January 4, 2010 - 10:55pm by miranda kiehl.

Although it looks sophisticated, I cant wait to try it out and customize my Drupal 7 site. When are you releasing the Drupal Gardens theme builder on drupal.org?

Thanks,
Miranda Kiehl

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Linea Rowe
Acquia Staff

Hi Miranda, If you haven't

Posted on January 7, 2010 - 11:18pm by Linea Rowe.

Hi Miranda,
If you haven't already, join the list on Drupalgardens.com and you'll get an invitation to the Drupal Gardens beta next month.

-Linea