Most non-customized Drupal themes come with basic gradients or stale background colors, and for good reason. The idea behind themes is to provide a somewhat generic design for the masses - providing a basic layout and canvas from which designers can improve.

Here are a list of Photoshop Brushes and Patterns that can help spice up your bland Drupal theme. If you’re not familiar with adding Brushes or Patterns to Photoshop, there are step-by-step instructions on the web or you can follow the instructions below:

1. Download Brush or Pattern and save it to your computer.

With the pending stable release of Drupal 7.x approaching fast (it was just announced that the Drupal 7.x Beta 1 has been released), it's well time to update our list of free Drupal themes that are ready for version 7!

So, without further ado, here's the list of free Drupal themes for Version 7.x:

Note: all themes listed either have a version for 7.x in the works, or have publicly pledged to do so.

1. Adaptive Theme
   

I love large image background web sites – the ones where web content and functions are positioned over a photograph. In spite of many well-known brands embracing this style, I’m having a hard time getting copywriters, online marketers, and developers to share my affection for the full photo background. Here’s what I’m up against…

The Copywriter Argument

During my tenure at LevelTen I would estimate that I’ve fielded over 10,000 phone calls or emails from companies and individuals who are looking for some assistance with their web project.

Speak Easy Drupal this week is all about going mobile with your Drupal website. With the rise in popularity of smart phone like the iPhone and Blackberry, it's more important then ever to make sure your website plays nice with the mobile crowd. But how do you do this? From modules to stylesheets, there are many ways to make sure your website looks right on the small screen. We'll go over all of these tactics, and more, in this week's Speak Easy Drupal.

Speak Easy Drupal this week is all about going mobile with your Drupal website. With the rise in popularity of smart phone like the iPhone and Blackberry, it's more important then ever to make sure your website plays nice with the mobile crowd. But how do you do this? From modules to stylesheets, there are many ways to make sure your website looks right on the small screen. We'll go over all of these tactics, and more, in this week's Speak Easy Drupal.

One of my favorite places to go for design inspiration and resources is smashingmagazine.com. Recently, they posted an excellent article titled 60+ Beautiful Logo Design Tutorials And Resources.This is an amazing display of some great logo's. They have also included several useful tutorials that will walk you through the entire process of creating a logo from start to finish.

In today's podcast, we discuss...

How I Might Deal with IE6

Panelist: Brandon Manbeck

Eight years ago (almost to the day), Jeffrey Zeldman signaled the dawn of "The CSS Age" when he wrote To Hell With Bad Browsers. Explaining how the use of @import for referencing stylesheets is ignored by Netscape 4 was an important step in shedding the problems related to supporting an ancient browser. Eight. Years.

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In this week's episode, we discuss designing for mobile devices, all about Axure, and what exactly are superdomains?

Designing for Mobile Devices

Panelist: Chris Sloan