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Drupal Themes - Afterburner - April 2010

Afterburner Drupal Theme

Catalyst Afterburner is the fastest Drupal theme ever and is completely free. The theme balances speed and search engine optimisation with a full feature set. The theme is based on the standard SEO layout used in club themes, and is therefore fully dynamic and collapsible.

An assortment of 8 preset styles, both light and dark also accompany the template.

Features and Screenshots


Afterburner Preset Styles Block Positions
  • Speed Optimisation
  • SEF Optimised Layout
  • Advanced Colour Selection
  • Suckerfish Dropdown Menu
  • 8 Preset Styles - Light / Dark Variations
  • 18 Block Regions
  • W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid

Search Engine Optimised Layout

The structure places the main content before the side columns in the code hierarchy which is beneficial for SEO purposes as your primary content is crawled first by the search engines such as Google. More Details...

Installation


To Install Using the RocketLauncher

Download the Afterburner RocketLauncher (rt_afterburner_d6-rocketlauncher.zip) This is the RocketLauncher pack for Afterburner which is a complete Drupal install which has the theme pre-installed and configured. Similarly, the demo content is injected and the modules are also pre-installed.
  • Extract d_afterburner_d6-rocketlauncher.zip
  • Copy the contents to the location you want to install Drupal
  • Navigate to that location in your browser and run the Drupal installer
  • Drupal, the theme, demo content and modules will all be installed and enabled

Install Theme and Modules Only

Download the Afterburner Theme (rt_afterburner_d6.tgz) This file is the theme-only package you will use to install just the theme into Drupal.
  • Extract d_afterburner_d6.tgz
  • Load your FTP client, such as FileZilla
  • Upload the d_afterburner_d6 folder to the /sites/all/themes/ folder in your Drupal install
  • Login into the Drupal administrator
  • Go to Administer | Themes
  • Check Enable and Default to the right of Afterburner
  • Click Save Configuration
Download the Afterburner Modules (rt_afterburner_d6-modules.zip) This file is the modules-only package you will use to install just the modules into your Afterburner-themed Drupal site.
  • Extract d_afterburner_d6-modules.zip
  • Extract the individual modules
  • Load your FTP client, such as FileZilla
  • Upload the various Afterburner modules folders to the /sites/all/modules/ folder
  • Login into the Drupal administrator
  • Go to Administer | Modules
  • Enable the Custom Modules (Other) for Afterburner
  • Click Save Configuration

Other Downloads

There are other files that you may wish to download that accompany the release, but are not required for the theme to work.

  • Afterburner Source PNG(s) d-afterburner-sources.zip – This contains all the Adobe Fireworks PNG source files for the theme, and if applicable, the logo font.

Frequently Asked Questions


Where can i find theme settings?
  • Login into the Drupal administrator
  • Go to Administer → Themes → Afterburner → Configure
  • Change Settings
  • Save Changes

Changelog

Afterburner Theme

This is a non-exhaustive changelog for the Afterburner theme, inclusive of any alpha, beta, release candidate and final versions.

            
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            * -> Security Fix
            # -> Bug Fix
            + -> Addition
            ^ -> Change
            - -> Removed
            ! -> Note
            
            ------- 1.4 Release [16-August-2010] -------
            + added support for database table prefixes in the RocketLauncher Installation profile
            + added support for $tabs2

            Changed Files: 
            template.php
            page.tpl.php
            
            
            ------- 1.3 Release [29-June-2010] -------
            ^ modified template.php and page.tpl.php to all SEO modules to work properly
            
            Changed Files: 
            template.php
            page.tpl.php
            
            ------- 1.2 Release [03-June-2010] -------
            ^ modified template.php to allow main nav support for clean URLs
            + added maintenance-page.tpl.php
            ^ updated template.php to process custom maintenance page variables
            
            Changed Files: 
            template.php
            page.tpl.php
            maintenance-page.tpl.php
            
            ------- 1.1 Release [13-May-2010] -------
            + added $head_title and $closure tags to page.tpl.php
            
            Changed Files:
            page.tpl.php
            
            ------- 1.0 Release [30-April-2010] -------
            ! Initial Release
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