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A Simples Theme

21 February 2012 | Aram Balakjian | Themes

Although it was not destined to win the SilverStripe theme contest, I thought it would be a shame if this theme was forgotten, so here it is in all it's glory and fully compatible with SS 2.x for everyone to use as they please!

Find it on Github here: https://github.com/arambalakjian/Simples-Theme

Features:

Responsive design for use with Mobiles
Clean minimal CSS and HTML, ready for customisation
Very few images, base theme is just 39KB!
Form, Content and 3 level Menu styling
Blog and Forum sub themes
Completely decoupled from functionality, no JS or PHP files required

As with all SilverSripe themes, simply dump it in your themes folder and change the line in your _config.php which sets the theme to:

SSViewer::set_theme('simples');

If you need it for blog or forum then you can add those folders in to the themes/ directory and it will style those modules too.

All Comments and suggestions for improvements are welcome!

Enjoy :)

Aram Balakjian

Aram is a web developer running London based agency Aab Web. He has a strong passion for developing attractive, usable sites around the SilverStripe CMS.

Visit Aram's website: www.aabweb.co.uk

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Wired Ink
22/02/2012 10:50am (3 months ago)

This looks really great! I am new to SS so I look forward to customizing this theme.
terryapodaca
23/02/2012 12:43am (3 months ago)

Mine didn't make it either...so I was going to release it to SS themes (http://www.silverstripe.org/themes). I know that portion of their site is seriously lacking in quality. You should submit this there as well.
Adam Stead
25/02/2012 2:34am (3 months ago)

I agree with Terry would be great if you submited to SilverStripe.org Theme section, hopefully the contest inspired a few people to submit there items to the Theme section we will be submitting a basic theme up there shortly as well.
kaloschke
09/04/2012 6:35pm (1 month ago)

Hi,
the theme doesn't work with beta 3.0. Is that right? And what can I do?
Greetings
Kaloschke
Aram Balakjian
11/04/2012 2:38pm (1 month ago)

Hi Kaloschke, what is the problem with 3.0 exactly? As far as I was aware it should work.

Aram
kaloschke
14/04/2012 2:41pm (1 month ago)

Hi Aram.
I have copied the folder to the themes section and have changed the theme name in _config.php in the mysite folder. After that I see only the start page without any menu. When I changed the theme back to blackcandy evrything looks like usual.
Greetings Kaloschke
Aram Balakjian
16/04/2012 10:38am (1 month ago)

Hi Kalischke - did you do a ?flush=1 you need to clear the template cache.

Aram
kaloschke
16/04/2012 6:31pm (1 month ago)

Oops (red face)
Thank you very much,
Kalosche