After one year with the old design, I have decided to re-design my site in my spare time. It took me 2 days to make a new design (using gimp(, including logo (blender+gimp) and then drupal theming. Yes, it was that easy with drupal. ;)

I am going to contribute the old theme, which quite a lot of people liked, to d.o. focused on blogging. I hope that someone (maybe acquia?) will create a nice install profile for bloggers, once. I am just tired of seeing everywhere posts like "20 Excellent Wordpress Blog Designs", etc... :) drupal can do it better we all know it ;) Can't wait to see showcases of drupal sites on popular magazines such as SmashingMagazine.

And btw, my Calendar icons were featured on smashing magazine. That means a lot of people (I guess most of them bloggers and/or designers looking for inspiration) hitted this drupal blog.

I will soon post an update on rootcandy and other projects.

Another update of the admin theme RootCandy. This time I have tried something I wanted to do in the first version and also what was suggested in usability group afaik. Everyone knows that forms on node edit or add and admin configuration might become very long.

I've moved all fieldsets into the right sidebar, and implemented thickbox (all with jquery and theme_fieldset). See some screenshots how it looks like. It's not tweaked, and currently this is available only on node/add and node/nid/edit pages. I know that for example input format fields should stay under body, this can be easily changed. This is a dev snapshot.

Another late night update on RootCandy. I made quite a lot of changes. Including redesign and now I am using Oxygen icons now which comes under GPL licence and they look better than Tango though.

While working on rootcandy admin theme, I came to a nice idea.

I wanted to show a block with help on the right side, which I did. Then, I was figuring out if it could do more than just showing help for particular section and the idea of 'Learn as you go' was born.

Basically it will guide drupal users through setting up drupal for their needs, helping them to explain things, etc... It's not that easy to use drupal for new people and also finding stuff on drupal forums or handbooks is sometimes discouraging.

Another update on this. I am slowly getting where I want to get. :)

I also forgot to mention that rootCandy theme is available from drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/rootcandy
(NOTE: latest tarball not yet available 21/02)

Finally, drupal 6 has been released:
Drupal 6 d.o. page

Had a little bit of time, and decided to create a small set of drupal.org user buttons like linkedin has and others. Here there are... You can download source code (.xcf -> gimp format) and feel free to change them, and post your changes. :)

Update 14/1/2008 21:45
Little navigation enhancements for long pages.
see files 01.png, 02.png, 03.png -> anchor links.

Update 14/1/2008 18:45
A little update for those who are following :)

Few small changes, such as history button, which will show last pages visited by user. Found it helpful on another system.

Just a short post. Yesterday I have spent whole day rewriting advanced user module (http://drupal.org/project/advuser). Hopefully I got there, there are still some major things I have to change and add, but its not that messy. ;)

UPDATED 24/11/2007
I have stumbled upon a request (Custom Registration Form) for creating a module, which will use first name and last name to generate a username.