I recently put together a little brochure-ware site for a new adventure: The Wellness Road Trip. The group of organizers needed something easy and fast and pleasant to look at. I think they've managed to get all three thanks to a few modifications on the most excellent Acquia Marina theme by Top Notch Themes.

Let's take a look at the before (from Theme Garden's rendering of the template) and after (the live site):

They're definitely related, but they're also a little bit different. The most time consuming part of the theme rejig was developing a banner that was complementary with the original poster. (I had a PDF but none of the component parts.) The sky image is actually a colorized version of this photo. The Acquia Marina is very well written and easy to work with. In my re-jigged version I ripped out multiple regions that weren't needed and dropped the primary navigation into the blue bar (which was obviously recoloured to match the banner). I needed to make a few extra adjustments to the CSS to get rid of the button shapes surrounding the navigation, and that was it.

Tech Summary

• Total time (including domain name registration, deploying Drupal and theme adjustments): just under 5 hours.
• "Extra" modules enabled and in use: Contact, Path and Update all from core; and Google Analytics from contrib.
• Admin theme (not shown): Root candy
• Deployment: theme versioned locally with Bazaar and then uploaded using Bazaar Upload (an S/FTP plugin)