Darren Mothersele

A quick lick of paint for my website. It's been a long time since I've updated it, so here's a new simple theme built using Tao (from Development Seed) as a base theme. I didn't have to do much to get this working as Tao offers a great base to work from.

Discourse is still at a very early stage, so there's no code to share just yet. At this stage most of the work is going into R&D. The priorities are (1) simple extensible structure, easily customised and rigorous cross browser compatibility, and (2) adopting best-practices for accesiblitiy, usability and seo/indexability.

I recently discovered the Thesis theme framework for Wordpress and was inspired to start a similar project for Drupal. I have recoded this completely from scratch (Thesis is a commercial product), but I have already been using Blueprint CSS in many projects recently so I decided to use this as a starting point for the first version. I want to move to more semantic markup in time, but Blueprint is a good starting point.