Drupal theming resources – free themes and paid designs
As we rely more and more on Drupal for our Web projects, theming becomes an increasingly larger part of our development process. Everyone wants a site that looks and feels unique and professional. Luckily, there many resources available for Drupal theming if you don’t have as much time or are on a tighter budget:
Free Drupal Themes
- TripWire: 225+ Ultimate Drupal Theme collection (good complication of free and paid Drupal themes from many sources – easy to browse)
- Top Drupal Themes (large selection of relatively nice themes, good navigation)
- Free Drupal Themes (.net) (good selection and navigation)
- Free Drupal Themes (.com) (simpler themes but offer live demos so you can see the site in aciton)
- ThemeBot – Free Drupal Themes (varying success)
- Drupal.org 6.x theme listing (large selection, varying quality, contains many starter/base themes that need to be developed into full themes. Difficult to browse, better go with TripWire above)
- Drupal ThemeGarden (live preview, hard to navigate, a bit outdated)
- Drupal Themes Only (simpler themes, harder to navigate)
- Free Drupal Templates
- Siteground Hosting – Free themes (21 simple templates, need to register to download)
- Free Drupal 6.x themes from Acquia (hard to download)
Paid Drupal design themes and services
- ThemeShark (around $70 per theme, very nice looking and professional)
- CMS QuickStart Premium Drupal Themes ($75-$150, very creative)
- Adaptive Themes – Themes and Theming Services (7 day money back guaranteed but no themes available yet)
- TopNotchThemes (Drupal 5.x and 6.x, around $200-$300 with buy-out option)
- ThemeForest (varying quality, $17-27)
- SooperThemes (simpler themes, around $85, 20 day money back guarantee)
- Acquia’s list of theme providers
Coding sources/tools
What are your favorite free Drupal themes?
July 20th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
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