Full Specifications

Layout

  • Responsive theming in Drupal 7, with 7.x-2.x and higher versions of Fusion
    • Multiple layouts: desktop, tablet (portrait or landscape), mobile
    • Supports media queries
  • 16 or 12 column Easy-Grid, no math, no hassle
    • Automatic (or manual) grid-aligned block widths
    • Advanced block positioning within grid using CSS indenting classes
  • Fixed or fluid layout
    • 960px fixed width
    • 100%, 95%, 90%, or 85% fluid width
  • 0, 1 or 2 sidebars
    • Adjustable sidebar widths, auto-adjusting content width
    • Sidebar positions: split, both left, both right
  • 16 regions in Drupal 7, 14 regions in Drupal 6, supporting any number of blocks
    • Blocks can be dropped under to form multiple rows in a region
  • Per-region equal height blocks
  • Collapsible regions × configurable sidebars × adjustable block widths = thousands of possible layouts for every theme!

Typography

  • Font families: serif (large & small), sans serif (large & small), Myriad, and Lucida font families
  • Font sizes: nine levels of base font sizes

Output Formatting

  • Search results: selectively display information shown with search results
  • Username: disable “not verified” text for anonymous commenters
  • Breadcrumbs: hide or display breadcrumbs

Administration & Development

  • Block administration hover links for quick access to block configuration
  • Grid overlay for easy block and content alignment
  • Rebuild theme registry setting to eliminate cache clearing while developing in the theme
  • Avoid Internet Explorer 31 stylesheet limit feature for development (not for production use)
  • Local.css file included so customized css is not overwritten by an upgrade

Block Styles

On each block’s configuration page, you can apply one of many styles, which allow you to craft the layout and design of your site to your specific needs

  • Standard styles (all themes):
    • 6+ menu styles
    • Inline login form – puts the user login form on one row (great for above the header)
    • Alignment styles: left (default), center content or entire block, align block to the right
    • ‘Callout’ or ‘highlight’ style for a mission statement or other important text
    • Multi-column lists – display your menus or lists in 2 or 3 columns
  • Custom styles (specific to your theme) including one or more of:
    • menus
    • forms
    • badges
    • borders
    • rounded corners
    • banner images
    • backgrounds
    • font styles
  • Many of these block styles also work with:
    • Panels
    • Views
    • Nodes (content types)
    • Quicktabs tabbed blocks
    • Comments

Menus

  • For Drupal 6, Superfish dropdown menu included for multiple child menu items for primary links (accessible, degrades to CSS-only when Javascript is disabled)
  • Superfish vertical dropdown menu style for sidebars
  • Secondary links style for header
  • Single-line block menu style with separators
  • Multi-column block menu style with headings (great for large footer menus)
  • For Drupal 7, Superfish has been removed from Fusion core and moved to its own module, which Fusion integrates with and retains the Drupal 6 functionality

Extra Graphics

  • Logo (or use your own)
  • Favicon (address bar/shortcut icon)
  • Photoshop PSD files (all layered)
  • Any stock images or icons shown are included and licensed for commercial use

Required modules

  • Skinr - For Drupal 6, this module enables much of Fusion’s easy point-and-click styling and layout
  • Fusion Accelerator - For Drupal 7, the Fusion Apply module enables point and click skin configuration

Recommended modules (tested with Fusion)

  • Superfish - Superfish menus for Drupal 7
  • Submitted By - hide or change the format of the author and/or date on nodes and comments
  • Taxonomy Hide - control which categories or tags are shown on different node types
  • Page Title - great for SEO – optimize the page title for nodes
  • Meta Tags - edit meta tags for your front page, nodes, and views
  • Theme Settings - customize the text and links for “Read more” and “Comments”/”Add comment” links, per content type (requires D6 patch)
  • Menu Breadcrumb or Custom Breadcrumbs - set up your site’s breadcrumb navigation to match the hierarchy of your menu
  • Better Formats - control input filters (Filtered/Full HTML) for different node types and comments, also adjust the help text shown by the comment form
  • Menu Block - show the top level of a menu in your header and the child items in the sidebar, or any other combination of menu levels
  • Special Menu Items - allows you to have unlinked menu items, such as the parent item of a dropdown menu
  • Print - add highly configurable printer-friendly versions of pages to your site