What to look for in a Drupal Theme ? - Theme Features

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What to look for in a Drupal theme ? Checkout some of they key features and which themes offer those.

Theme Features Description Model Themes
Fixed / Fluid Both types are in equal Demand. Fixed width themes are more used when the website is dynamic and content is primararily added by users. This prevents distorting of website. Fluid width themes have a disadvantage, that it will show blank spaces when the screen size is bigger.   
Multi-column Support Theme should support 1, 2 and 3 column layouts. If 2 column is used then theme should automatically resize the center column to occupy the 3 column space. Same applies if 1 column is used. http://drupal.org/project/beginning
http://drupal.org/project/zen
Source ordering Content should load before the left and right sidebars. This provides increased accessibility and SEO  http://drupal.org/project/beginning 
Extra block Regions Theme should provide extra block regions, ideally 3 below the header and 3 in the footer.  http://drupal.org/project/artistsC01
W3C standards-compliant  XHTML 1.0 Strict / CSS 2.1
http://validator.w3.org/ - XTHML Validation
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ - CSS Validator
http://drupal.org/project/Alina
http://drupal.org/project/beginning 
Cross-browser compatible IE6, IE7, Firefox2, Opera 9, Safari are widely used browsers. Theme should support IE6 and FF2 at the minimum.  
Secondary menus The theme should support Secondary Menus http://drupal.org/project/fourseasons
Theme Settings API Can the theme settings be changed from Theme admin pages. Theme settings API module needed. http://drupal.org/project/twilight
http://drupal.org/project/tapestry
http://drupal.org/project/artistsC01
Suckerfish Menus Does the theme support SuckerFish menus
http://drupal.org/project/tapestry
http://drupal.org/project/artistsC02
Icons Support Icons should be included in the node links etc.
http://drupal.org/project/tapestry
http://drupal.org/project/evening


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