OK, let me just put my foot down here. ThemeForge idea is already been thought of, but we werent sure about the willingness of the community to participate in this structurally. But, seeing the livelyness of this thread, I think we just might do this
. I've discussed this with StudioC and Philou before, but for this I'll stat a new thread tomorrow (have family business to do today). But I need a team who will organise and set this up for me
As for the contest and the criteria:
Because this theme will be distributed with EVERY XOOPS install, the standards need to be VERY high. It needs to show that we care about (international, open) standards, about customisation, documentation and ease of use. Hence my list. I do NOT want to make it less strict for this category.
However, we can have more categories of course, but I still feel that there are some minimal requirements EVERY theme should stick to.; And they are both technical and artistic:
- valid xhtml 1.0 transitional;
- proper user of CSS classes (like Mithy's example);
- Original;
- Creative.
If it meets these criteria, we'll judge it. If not, then it's not good enough for this contest. For those who say 'so what if it doesn't validate, a lot of sites are that way' I say that we have to show the world that XOOPS is a quality system. You're free to use any kind of theme, crap, bugged, horrid or otherwise on your site, but this is a showcase contest.
Now, which categories should we have? And please don't make a list of 20 cats, as we'll need a sponsor for the prize for every category. Suggestions on those (prizes and sponsors) please as well.
Herko