My blog-post with calendar icons is nearly one year old. I've seen quite a lot of people using it and was surprised. One of the best upgrades was by Joost de Valk (Yoast.com). His article on CSS-Tricks shows his idea to place a bubble with comment count over the calendar icon. Read how it works and how to implement it in your drupal theme.

After a long time, another blog post about what's new since last update.

After visiting Szeged and meeting quite a lot of new faces, I also got some feedback on rootcandy. Thanks all for that.

I have set up a new gallery with latest screenshots -> HERE

Last few weeks I've spent most of my time on a new website 'STANDPOINT.OnLine' which is a new UK magazine. Developed for BigKidLondon, drupal again prooved that especially for magazine website, where you need to have editors, publishing queues, and a lots of others magazine related functions, is just perfect.

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.

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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.

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RootCandy now supports famous color module! Go ahead and add some color sugar or see screenshots below. ;)

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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.

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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)

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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.

How did I style comments and how did I use rounded corners using CSS Speech Bubbles from willmayo.com in my theme without hacking any other modules...