41 Responses to “20 Great 3-Column Drupal Themes”

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   Brooke Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 9:04 am

   Yeesh, no offense but if these are the best you could find, the Drupal community needs to get some better designers involved. Compare any of these to many of the Wordpress themes and they just look terribly stale.

   LiteJazz and Aurora are the only ones that look remotely creative from a design perspective in my opinion. Functionally, Eugene8 is surpasses most of the rest, though it’s not really an eye-catcher.

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   Sean P. Aune Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 9:32 am

   Brooke - I think Drupal just suffers from a smaller installed user base than WordPress. I also have found that Drupal users tend to be tinkerers more than the WordPress folks. They like to get in to the nitty gritty and design their sites from the ground up.

   The Drupal folks are very much a DIY crowd.

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   Andrew Min Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 9:34 am

   Yeah, I think the Wordpress folks are targeting the end user, while the Drupal folks are targeting the webmaster.

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   20 themes de 3 columnas para Drupal | La Webdosfera 2.0 Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 10:59 am

   [...] Navegando por Digg me encontré con este buen compilado de themes para Drupal, son themes de 3 columnas.  Para más info  clic acá [...]

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   GeoHelper Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 11:03 am

   Beware - many of these use poorly written XHTML/CSS. Validate first to be safe.

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   phenom Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

   I wanna try them….looks decent
   http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

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   Cameron Chapman Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 4:29 pm

   Good advice. This is true of any template that you download from the web - make sure that whatever template you’re using validates!

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   Adam Hirsch Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

   I don’t know if you guys heard but there are rumors/talks of the fact that Drupal is going to have new functions that easily integrate with WordPress and Facebook. If this happens, and they do a good job of it, I think we can see the userbase grow substantially and hopefully then we’ll have some real good drupal plugins and themes.

   - Adam Hirsch, Mashable.com

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   mashableCN Says:
   October 5th, 2007 at 1:44 am

   20个经典的3栏Drupal主题…

   Drupal两栏主题续篇
   LiteJazz - 经典的通用3栏主题，提供很多可定制块，可以很容易的改成其它样式

   Burnt - 简洁，颜色反差小，3栏，固定宽度

   FriendsElectric - 880px宽，干净，简洁，有绿色…..

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    clo75 Says:
    October 5th, 2007 at 6:55 am

    Drupal don’t need WordPress Modules, nor it needs templates.

    Indeed Drupal is powerful system, and often very misunderstood, so it’s difficult to read good informations. IBM and more recently Adobe choosed Drupal as their tool of choice and it’s not a surprise when you carefully study this product and his near competitors.

    First Drupal is not a blog tools, or CMS but rather a framework. You have a decent API, you can program all custom fields you can imagine, powerful taxonomy, thousand of modules, granularity access, ecommerce, jQuery engine in the core and… the choice of several powerful templates engines. So with Drupal you can do big web sites, multi-blog sites, newspaper sites, social web sites and so on…

    The biggest problem with Drupal is its non sexy look in the back office and its cumbersome organisation and also in the template library. The official Drupal web site seems to be very dated in terme of graphics look too.

    But I prefer to have a powerfull web framework, able to handle all kinds of web 2.0 and templates complexity, rather than CMS who offer fancy look but are very limited in term of power. In fact you can make very nice templates, it’s just a artistic question. You have all the power and much more to do that.

    Ok there is a learning curve, but this is because web 2.0 sites are complex things. And Drupal has the best ratio on the market between power/accesibility.

    For now the lacks of good Drupal templates commes more from the designer community who don’t really know the existence ans the powerful features of Drupal. Also PHPTemplate is little intimidated even if you know CSS. Things will be more easy with Drupal 6 and the ability to use more pure CSS templates.

    In one word the future of Drupal is brillant. And thank you Mashable.com for this post, even if the list of templates are not so fancy, and even if people are sometimes not able to do the maths.

    Some good sites done with drupal :

    http://www.nowpublic.com

    http://www.theonion.com

    http://www.popsugar.com

    http://www.france24.com

    http://www.glamourparis.com

    http://www.interfaces-enrichies.fr

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    Adam Hirsch Says:
    October 5th, 2007 at 11:46 am

    Wow! Clo75 thanks for that lesson. You definitely taught me a thing or two. I definitely laughed when I read this though, “The biggest problem with Drupal is…” then you mention 4 rather large problems. haha.

    - Adam Hirsch, Mashable.com

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    Drupal themes Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 7:26 am

    Hi,
    We contributed another 3 column theme to Drupal months back. I’m surprised it wasn’t added to the list above, but it’s the same theme we use on:

    http://www.seoposition.com

    We are also launching a theme site which will compete (designed-wise) with many Joomla template sites.

    One of the problems with Drupal is the murky GPL licensing issues. Unlike Joomla and WordPress, Drupal has a lot more undefined areas that would allow for more freedom from those who want to create, contribute, and mainly sell Drupal themes. Hopefully this will change soon.

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    newskicks.com Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 7:22 am

    man clo75 those are the awesome sites gr8 man.

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    drupal Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    The thumbnail for the SEO Position theme is out of date, the new version I built for Drupal 5 is a lot nicer. You can check it out on my Drupal Themes page: http://blamcast.net/drupal-themes

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    Drupal Themes Says:
    November 5th, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    The New copy blogger theme from http://mydrupal.com is also a very good addition to this list.

    Also NewFangled theme is very good.

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    Themes für Wordpress, Textpattern, Drupal, MovableType und Expression Engine Says:
    December 15th, 2007 at 5:38 am

    [...] Mashable 3 Column Drupal Themes [...]

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    Artist Lupein Says:
    January 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am

    While it is fairly easy to do Drupal theme CSS validation , it is not so straight forward to validate XHTML.

    CSS is usually static and content independent, which is main idea with style sheet. What you need to do is to pass it to CSS validator and get your answer.

    XHTML is generated and the structure depends on site configuration and content. It happens that turning on or off some Drupal feature makes site W3C compliant or non-compliant. User defined content also can (and often does) make page XHTML non-compliant.

    In practice, you can determine when Drupal theme is breaking W3C XHTML standard, but if it is compliant, it is very hard to prove.

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    all drupal themes Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 3:03 am

    Half of these themes are fairly ugly, you’ll find better looking ones if you browse some sites that are less restricting in the license on the design. (cc2.5 vs GPL).

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    themegarden.org Says:
    January 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Most of those themes could be found as live demo at http://themegarden.org

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    kls010 Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    CMS Lounge(http://www.cmslounge.com/) make gorgeous Drupal themes. A couple are even free. Clean design and easy to use. I have used them on 15 of my drupal sites.

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    TopNotchThemes Says:
    March 29th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    Deco is another beautiful three column, Drupal (6) theme: http://drupal.org/project/deco

    Demo here: http://www.kvw.be/deco/

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    ashkan Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 5:11 am

    Thaks Your templates
    it’s very good

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    10 Excellent Resources for Free Drupal Themes | Speckyboy - Wordpress and Design Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

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    20 temi per Drupal | Splesh! Says:
    May 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 am

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    Myspace Says:
    May 29th, 2008 at 5:58 am

    Its nice templates i like it.Clean design

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    Atif Aslam Says:
    May 29th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    Vey Nice Themes Thanks Dear

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    Bazyli Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Some of the themes are pretty dull. Themers can mix and match templates to override, or even just start throwing CSS on top of the existing HTML to get a variety of really nifty designs.

    Bazyli

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    Drupal guy Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 2:06 am

    there are some really cool designs and since Drupal is the most flexible CMS for now and open sourced its the best choice for website.

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    Green Thumbs Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    This is really kind of a depressing state of affairs. Say what you want about Drupal, powerful, extensible, whatever. If it looks bad in presentation, then what else really matters. And from all I’ve seen, Drupal is about as first generation as templates can get. I’d be embarrassed to be part of this project, after looking at all the outstanding template work done with Wordpress and Joomla. The Drupal people better put up or shut up. Designers for Wordpress and Joomla are making Drupal look like something for kindergardeners. Who cares if you have a Ferrari engine inside your tricycle.

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    Geshan Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    Great post, really cool themes. Here is my list of top 5 themes.

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