Two themes of a new breed have launched on TopNotchThemes recently. We’ve heard a lot from our customers and potential customers about the need for real newspaper and blog themes for Drupal. You ask and we theme!

Extra! Extra!

What makes a Drupal newspaper theme? Navigation is very important, and horizontal dropdowns are a favorite of news sites everywhere. Also a prominent search, plenty of advertising spots, featured content, and of course, lots of block regions for building your site. This theme hits on all of these and provides a clean grey/blue design, with accents of red and a featured block region at the top.

Copywrite

Wordpress gets all the open source blogging platform glory, but Drupal is actually an amazing system for building a blog-based website because you can go so much further. However, it’s definitely been lacking in the theme department. Why is Copywrite a great blog theme? It’s got a custom style for AdSense blocks, tons of regions, a flexible two or three column layout, and a blog-oriented post style, in terms of the way taxonomy, author/date, and other node links are laid out. We’ve also thrown in icons for tags, comments, users, and email/print links.