Drupal Colorise 6.x-2.1 was released

Finally, Drupal Colourise CVS War was end (again). The prisoner of war was released. The new vetaran's stuff is right there : Drupal Colourise Project.

Yes, I'm enjoying mixing metaphors because I have recently renewed my poetic license from hell.
Okey, let's get serious on details now!

Original

• Original Design : Colourise 1.0 : styleshout.com
• Original Author : Erwin Aligam
• License : Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License

Porting

• Official Project page : Drupal Colourise
• Drupal Themer : Sungsit Sawaiwan (Gibbozer)
• Maintenance and Support : http://drupal.org/project/issues/colourise
• Latest Stable Release : Colourise-6.x-2.1
• License : GNU General Public License
  

Features

• Site name
• Site slogan
• Mission statement
• Top search box
• Shortcut icon
• Primary Links
• User pictures in posts and comment
• Top and Bottom content block regions
• 3 Footer block regions
• Accessibility Navigation
• Tableless design
• W3C Valid XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS 2.1
• Cross-browser compatibility checked (IE6/7, Opera, Safari, and Firefox)

New Features in Colourise-6.x-2.x

• Built-in theme settings
• Left, Right, Both sidebars and None sidebar support
• 6 level of page width, from 780px to fluid layout. (inside theme settings)
• jQuery Transparent PNG Fix for IE6 and below (inside theme settings)
• Add/Remove your own customized CSS code (inside theme settings)
• Add/Remove Breadcrumb (inside theme settings)
• Print media CSS included
• Maintenance page included
• Optimized Bi-directional (BiDi) support (Need feedback/suggestion from RTL users - Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew and more)
• Thai translation for theme settings interface

Inspirations

Erwin Aligam's Colourise 1.0 : Beautiful dark design with fixed width layout , one right sidebar , a nice image header and of course, valid XHTML/CSS. ). Otherwise, I change some typographic display to be more legible and more suitable for both English and Thai language.

And the first version of this Drupal theme was inspired by The 960 Grid System : Nathan Smith's 960 Grid System. But for version 6.x-2.x, I had removed that great framework for supporting various levels of page width. By the way, the 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. That is the great thing for the web developer could try.

If you want to buy me underwear!

I know this is not the best Free Drupal theme or the hardest piece of work humankind ever done and I'm not the unstoppable CSS coding machine which can generate the code with less time consuming. So, porting and maintaining the Colourise theme to Drupal inevitably accelerate my underwear get PRETTY DIRTY OLDER!

If you like this theme or appreciate my amounts of nightly hours in front of screen monitor, you may want to fill my tip jar. (I hope brand new underwear will let me create another nightly project soon. ;)