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Canned Themes: Why Bother?
Drupal Garland: High Five!One of the common knocks on Drupal–in my opinion a valid one–is that out-of-box it's ugly. That's because a basic installation defaults to "Garland," a theme that somehow manages to deftly combine a boxy layout, baffling lack of visual hierarchy, and bland 1996 blue color palette into a single theme that almost works, but never really quite makes it.
While there's work happening right now to replace Garland as Drupal's default theme, if you were really in a bind you could always install one of the other pre-made themes available on Drupal.org.
But still. Unless you're really in a time crunch, or just don't care, the question I always have when I browse the theme project pages is, why bother? Read more »
Three MR+A Sites Rated Most Valuable
Three websites created by Mark Royko + Associates were ranked among the top 20 sites providing public interest news in Chicago. The sites, Catalyst Chicago (8); District 299 (15); and the Chicago Reporter(16) received the ratings from the Community Media Workshop.
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