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Two new Drupal 6 themes, plus customer favourite Ubercart theme updated
Two new Drupal 6 themes joined the TopNotchThemes family yesterday, Fresh Start and Vidz. Also worth noting is that our top selling theme for Ubercart, Sharp Sales, has now been updated to Ubercart 2 for Drupal 6, which is still in development but getting very close to a stable release. Ah, life on the bleeding edge!
Fresh Start is a clean and, um, fresh theme for Drupal 6. It's a wide two column theme where your sidebar can easily switch from left to right. Whether the (optional) sprouting plant is to be taken literally (perhaps for your environmental or grassroots organization) or metaphorically (new startup, anyone?), you can't go wrong with a light, modern look.
Vidz is a new Drupal 6 design that gets a little funky with custom layout theming for multimedia websites -- if you're using the Embedded Media Field module, the Vidz theme will give media nodes and teaser listings a nice floated layout. Of course it also would work great for a corporate site, blog, or online community.
7 reasons why Ubercart is the right choice for Drupal e-commerce
We had to make a tough decision early this year — which Drupal e-commerce package was right for us? There are currently two full e-commerce solutions for Drupal, eCommerce and Ubercart.
We chose Ubercart and jumped in with both feet. We’re happy to say that nine months later, this has definitely shown itself to be the right choice.
This post isn’t really going to discuss the technical merits or specific features of each option. This is better served by doing your own research on each one to see if there are any particular features that you need. What I’m going to focus on here are the less tangible aspects; things that we have since found to be clear indicators of the strength of Ubercart.
1) Big names are using it
Prominent companies such as AOL and Warner Brothers Records has been using Ubercart for a while. More recently, Lullabot launched an Ubercart site for their conference registration (and will be covering UC in their upcoming book), and Acquia’s registration for their beta service currently uses Ubercart. Support from key players like this has a lot of weight in the Drupal community.
Ubercart and TopNotchThemes rockin' Drupal e-commerce
June is an exciting month for both Ubercart and TopNotchThemes! Over a year since their initial alpha release, Ubercart released version 1.0 earlier this month. If you haven’t had a chance to check out Ubercart, you can read more about the project and also see why Drupal shines as an e-commerce platform.
To help you get started, we’ve added a handy tutorial to our site for creating an online store with Drupal.
We know that a beautiful e-commerce site built on an open source platform can be hard to come by, especially with the complexity of theming for e-commerce systems. Helping to change this perspective, we’ve just added another two Ubercart themes to the TopNotchThemes library, Sharp Sales and Stockholm!
Ubercart themes get a lot of extra TLC from our team, with additional styling of blocks for the shopping cart, bestselling and featured products, and various catalog displays. Product nodes, catalog grids, and categories get custom theming, along with the user’s cart and checkout forms. Ubercart themes come with all our usual TNT theme goodies too, so they work just fine for a non-Ubercart Drupal site.
Now that Ubercart 1.0 is out the door, the UC team is hard at work on the Drupal 6 upgrade, which will bring numerous other improvements. Congrats to the team on a great release, and we look forward to continuing to make Ubercart look its best!
