We’ve been working the whole week-end to set up the new Typogarden, and even thoug there are still much themes to port, we’re happy to announce our new official theme repository is now open.
Typogarden used to be Typo theme contest website. Unfortunately, the site became a forsaken land since mid 2006. We had the project to take over it and make it revive for long, but lacked both the domain name and the time to do it. And since a garden is notheing without a gardener, we’re happy to welcome Damien Mathieu, a French web developper and happy Typo user as Typogarden maintener. Welcome to the crew dude. I’m sure you’ll be the man.
There’s still a lot to do. First we need to finish importing themes from Proofread and dev411. Then, port some popular Wordpress themes to Typo to enlarge our collection, and wait for genuine theme submission.
Submit a theme to Typogarden?
Now that you have tested your theme, it looks great, and you’re a kind and giving person, so you want to share it with other typo users. Remember, typo thrives on the contributions of the many contributors all around the world. Please do become one of them.
While guaranteeing full employment for intellectual property lawyers may seem to be a laudable goal to some, please make sure that you have permission to use all the elements you submit with your theme before you send it in.
- Make a “tar ball” or zip : Zip up your theme directory or make a tar ball with a command such as tar cjvf mytheme.tar.bz2 mytheme.
- Share your well-tested theme: Create a new ticket with [THEME] as the first word in the summary and upload (not paste) your zip or tarball.
- Keep an eye on your ticket in case there are any reservations raised before it can be added.
- Bask in the glory of being a typo contributor!
After last week Rails 2.0, Typo 5.0 is soon to be released. As this is a major change, we have decided to change the default theme and to let you decide what you want as a default theme.
Standard issue
View Standard Issue in action.
Dirtylicious
View Dirtylicious in action.
Abstract
View Abstract in action.
Rambling Soul
View Rambling Soul in action.
Nautica
View Nautica in action.