When I first setup Drupal on this site, I had pretty much decided that I would use an existing theme from Drupal's theme repository. And for a while, I did. I reviewed a lot of different themes, from very basic themes to more visually appealing ones. I eventually settled on one or two and gave it a go. This worked okay for a while but over time, I came to the realization that:

• themes can have bugs too (some serious)
• debugging other people's CSS and PHP is a lot of work
• heavy themes can really slow down your site

Considering that from the get-go, I wanted a minimalist, fast rendering, and easy to customize theme, I came to the conclusion that I needed to write my own. And to make sure that the theme was as lean and efficient as possible, I decided to write it from scratch. The result is nixer, a fast, lightweight yet professional CSS-only theme for Drupal. It is the default theme for nixer.org, thus the name of the theme.

Version 1.0 of the theme for Drupal 6.x is now available for download. The theme project page is at:

http://drupal.org/project/nixer

The theme is fairly well-tested so I don't think it has any serious bugs. If you find any, please create an issue for it.