25 beautiful Drupal themes

31 Mar 2009

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From many sides I hear that Drupal sites and themes are ugly, which is partly true, but I took a closer look at Drupal.org themes and handpicked 25 best designed Drupal 6 themes, to prove that Drupal can be beautiful even using standard themes that you can find on drupal.org website.

In this post I provided a link to every theme’s project page on drupal.org, download link and live demo link. Please note, that download links link to current theme release, which can change in the future, so use project page link (theme title in this post) in the future and download themes from there to keep them up to date.

Absynthe

absynthe

Supports site name, slogan, title, search box, shortcut icon, and primary links.
CSS based, tableless design, fixed width layout with 2 columns.
Quick edit and delete links, custom search form design.

Acquia Marina

acquia_marina

1, 2, or 3 column layout, 15 collapsible block regions
Drop-down primary links menu (optional) advanced theme settings to customize without coding!
Includes icons, high attention to detail on things like forms, lists, comments, quotes, and Drupal maintenance page

Download

Acquia Slate

acquia-slate

1, 2 (either sidebar), or 3 column layout, 14 collapsible block regions
Custom front page layout with block/menu overlay and photo
Additional block regions on inner content pages, advanced theme settings to customize without coding!

Download

Addari

addari

Rounded Glassy corners of container.
CSS based design without tables, 6 Block regions
Pre-Made Search block, attractive comment section.

Agregado

agregado

Supports site name, slogan, mission, comment user pictures, search box, shortcut icon, and primary and secondary links.
Fixed width layout with 2 columns, 5 block regions available (including content area).
Custom search form design, maintenance/site off-line theme, CSS based, tableless design

Analytic

analytic

Smart 1-2-3 columns, big amount of regions
Fixed width (from 1024px and greater), tableless (css based)
XHTML Transitional valid, Tested in firefox 2+ / opera9.x / chrome / ie6+

Chrysalis

asynchronous

a modern looking theme which supports the Asynchronous module.

Color Paper

Supports logo or site name, mission, comment user pictures, shortcut icon, and primary and secondary links.
Fixed width layout with 2 columns, Maintenance/site off-line theme, CSS based, tableless design.
PNG fix for IE5.5+, comes with 5 variation of colours (teal, green, orange, pink, purple).

Colourise

colourise

Site name, Site slogan, Mission statement, Top search box, Shortcut icon, Primary Links, User pictures in posts and comment
Tableless Layout,Top and Bottom content block regions, 3 Footer block regions
jQuery Transparent PNG Fix for IE6 and below (inside theme settings)
Bi-directional (BiDi) support

Download

Dark Elegance

Light-weight and fast loading, Focus on minimal implementation
Fixed 2 Column Layout 950px, CSS based, tableless design.
Fully customizable header image [PSD Included], Support for logo, primary links, mission, search box, shortcut icon and user pictures

Decayed

Tableless design, fixed width layout,
2 columns with single right sideba, 3 footer block region, Top and bottom content block regions
Site nam, Site slogan, Mission statement, Top search box, Shortcut icon, Primary Links

Ebizon Exotic Red

Ebizon Exotic Red is a beautiful strict xHTML validated, standards compliant CSS based 2 Columns drupal template.

Ebizon RedFire

ebizon-redfire

Ebizon RedFire is a strict xHTML validated, standards compliant CSS based drupal template with mission statement, breadcrumbs, custom footer.
It is a fixed width with beautiful red, black on white background color theme.

Fervens

fervens

Supports site name, comment user pictures, shortcut icon, and primary links.
Fixed width layout with 3 columns, CSS based, tableless design.
Nifty rounded corners, Uses Whatever:hover script for IE6 and below support

Freestyle

Freestyle is a colorful, tableless, two column layout. Freestyle’s skate/punk motif uses pink and yellow neon spray paint as a graffiti backdrop for a blocky stencil-like typeface.
It has nice positive and negative space usage and some subtle torn edge styling. It almost reminds you of that flyer for your band that you had your friend screen print copies of in his grandma’s basement back in the day.

Download

Fresh Media

fresh-media1

Three special “user” block regions
Two-columns, Fixed width, tableless / Pure CSS design
Five block regions - content, right sidebar, footer 1, footer 2, and footer 3

Download

id-Facta

This is a minimal and very clean theme, including a lot of white space, for those who love clean and minimal designs. It is very lightweight and fast loading.
The theme is tested with all major browsers.
Collapsible left sidebar and bottom blocks.

Inove

Fixed width with 2 columns
Cross-browser compatible, Optimized for fast loading
Standards-compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS

Magazeen

Fixed width with 2 columns
Standards-compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS
Cross browser compatible and tested on IE-6, IE-7, FireFox, Opera

Mulpo

It is a simple clean theme with semantic markup, ideal for blogs.
The mulpo theme manages to look very stylish with just one background image, all the rest is done with CSS.
Mulpo has only been tested in Firefox and Safari.

Pixeled

pixeled

Based on a GPL licensed wordpress theme.

Pluralism

This theme is a blog theme for Drupal 6. The footer is designed to have 3 columns, so for the best aesthetic look, multiples of 3 are the best look for this theme (3, 6, 9 blocks).
jQuery used to hide/show the categories on node pages. Forum’s are built based on the taxonomy system, so special attention was paid to how categories display on forum pages.
No logo on the theme.

Scruffy

scruffy

Scruffy is a grungy, two-column blog theme originally designed for Wordpress by Cobus Bester.
The Drupal port preserves the same fundamental layout, with minor tweaks to work with non-node pages, Drupal status messages, and so on.

Strange Little Town

Site name, Site slogan, Mission statement, Primary Links, User pictures in posts and comment
Top and Bottom content block regions, tableless Layout, 1 Left, 1 Right, Both or None sidebars support
jQuery Transparent PNG Fix for IE6 and below (inside theme settings), Bi-directional (BiDi) support

Download

The Morning After

the-morning-after

This is a port of the Wordpress theme The Morning After to Drupal/ProsePoint, developed as a subtheme of Zen.
NOTE: You must install the Zen theme first! See http://drupal.org/project/zen.

67 Responses to 25 beautiful Drupal themes

jamso

March 31st, 2009 at 5:37 pm

thx bro :)

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Neo

April 1st, 2009 at 10:26 am

You got my blog :)

Hallo Patidu

April 1st, 2009 at 10:33 am

I like the first theme :D . And i am using this template, but it is a wordpress theme :D.

thank bro..!

Jim

April 1st, 2009 at 11:36 am

Added to DrupalSightings.com

mogdesign

April 1st, 2009 at 11:47 am

@Hallo Patidu - yes, few of them are worpdress theme ports, I wish we would have more of them :)

April 1st, 2009 at 11:48 am

@Jim - thanks for adding

Nicolas

April 5th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

This is an awesome list, thanks for your work, we need more blog posts talking about great Drupal themes. Thanks for including my mulpo theme, it was awesome to see it make the list :D. Here is another article about nice Drupal themes: http://mulpo.com/top-drupal-themes - I will add a link at the end of my post linking back to this article.

golchi

April 13th, 2009 at 7:17 am

Helpful post because as you said many themes are not so cool. It is as if you were seeing the same themes with different colors :-).

I knew some of the list but there are new cool ones I found. Tx

April 15th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

@Nicolas - thanks for linking back

laxman

May 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

I am new for the Drupal community and My request to the users is to guide me through the theming concepts.
Thanks in advance.

Ulf

May 6th, 2009 at 10:40 am

Great Collection, thanx a lot.

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mkjones

May 6th, 2009 at 11:11 am

Wow, Drupal seems to have really got its act together since I moved away from it.

The Magazeen WordPress port is especially nice.

If only they would sort their versions out. v6 would be perfect if they would only drop v5 and get everyone working on the same project.

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Frank Stallone

May 6th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

I absolutely love how Dark Elegance handles comments. Some of these look like Wordpress themes (some are ported from WP themes I know) but Drupal has a little different gearing that WP so why use it as just a blog if it can clearly do so much more? Either way great list!

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mary

May 6th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

That’s a nice list of themes, thank you. Drupal is such a powerful CMS, and it’s good to see more themes coming out for it.

thanks much!

Glenn Hilton

May 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

Great list Jozef! Those are sharp. :)

Matt

May 6th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Magazeen’s version alpha-2 is well done theme. CSS was one of the best i’ve worked with. I’ve updated my site to it, with some minor changes. http://matthewm.org

Arthur

May 6th, 2009 at 5:27 pm

Nice theme!

tripwiremag

May 6th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

Great collection really! Thanks for a good blog.
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Torsten

May 10th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Great selection of drupal themes.
I will linking back as one source for drupal theme inspirations.

Bevan

May 14th, 2009 at 3:02 am

This is post is really useful. Are you on Planet Drupal? You should be! ;) Let me know if you want help getting on.

You’ve done an awesome job of theming yor blog here. It looks great!

sanatate

June 19th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Nice collection. Thank you!

neon

June 19th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Your site is very good. There are useful information and most importantly, for sharing great. Thank you ….

newmedia.by

June 21st, 2009 at 6:01 pm

thanks for your work, thats a very good collection!

ijohndoe

June 30th, 2009 at 3:26 am

you ported the magazeen wordpress theme. great work, thanks!

July 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm

thank you very much.. very good web site..

Drupal Themes Garden

July 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Really nice collection of drupal themes. Thanks.

Komik Videolar

July 20th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

thanks all.

jai

July 24th, 2009 at 8:08 am

Long Eyelashes

Solar Contractor

July 24th, 2009 at 8:13 am

tv mounts

July 24th, 2009 at 8:16 am

ceiling mounts

Hair Dryers

July 24th, 2009 at 8:32 am

Hot Air Brush

james

July 24th, 2009 at 8:35 am

Nice Drupal layout for health care theme
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Zoltan

July 25th, 2009 at 8:08 am

Nice collection!
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Soon we will provide the best drupal themes!

Kombi Servisi

August 31st, 2009 at 11:13 am

nice colecciton very nice blog
thanks

Billi

September 4th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

Oh, that’s fine, i’m news with Drupal and it’s a great help.

youtube

September 8th, 2009 at 1:35 am

Thanks for the tutorial, Drupal has become increasingly good as they put new versions around and I’m quite glad to see it is as effective as ever

windy abdurrahman

September 20th, 2009 at 5:05 am

nice looking theme..

Suneel

September 27th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

Nice list of drupal themes there.

How about their admin panels? Are they as sophisticated as Wordpress dashboards? I have multiple blogs on WP, but none on Drupal.

September 28th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

The new Drupal 7 will bring so much improved usability. But even now Drupal administration is quite intuitive, there are few admin themes, admin modules so you can configure it just as you want. And the new Admin Theme that will come with drupal 7 was designed by Mark Boulton ;)

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Ed conolly

November 16th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Awesome, thanks!

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November 26th, 2009 at 4:06 am

Thnaks heaps, couple of these arn’t even listed on Drupal :)

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December 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Markus

December 27th, 2009 at 3:24 am

You should also check out Themesnap.com for some nice Drupal themes. It’s too bad that people use Wordpress as a CMS when Drupal does a better job IMHO.

PARTO RIZA

December 30th, 2009 at 5:09 am

Dear Sir,

I am interested to use design The Morning After as our website design.
Could we do that ???and how we can do that ??
Thank you

justin tv

December 30th, 2009 at 9:30 pm

good summ good theme tnk

mike

January 1st, 2010 at 12:57 pm

thanks a lot good themes

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January 8th, 2010 at 6:43 am

it’s such a great article. i’ll tell about this to all my friends as soon as possible. thanks for everything.

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January 9th, 2010 at 6:16 pm

tnk admn good job

SohoInteractive

January 18th, 2010 at 6:39 pm

Awesome themes. Thank you for sharing.

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January 19th, 2010 at 2:34 am

i just wanted to thank you for this useful article and i’m glad to find this website. now i’m beginning to read your other articles. i hope we will live on well :)

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