Dawn - Responsive Drupal Theme
Dawn is a clean, sleek, and modern Drupal 7 theme built using the Twitter Bootstrap framework. Intended for use by creative professionals; this theme is fully responsive, mobile/touchscreen ready, and features a custom Revolution Slider module for Drupal that can’t be found anywhere else! Dawn’s powerful theme options panel enhances Drupal’s core functionality to make the theme customization process a quick, seamless experience.
Features
- Clean, modern, and fully responsive design
- Built with Twitter Bootstrap 4
- Touchscreen ready
- Multilanguage / Translation / RTL Support
- Advanced Theme Settings
- Unlimited highlight colors
- Unlimited header, footer colors
- Lightbox gallery with customizable hover states
- Intuitive view plugin for grid / filter management with Spotlite module
- HiDPI / Retina Icons
- Background image upload tool
- Revolution Slider plugin included—A $12 Value!
- Custom Revolution Slider module with Drag and Drop editor (Video)
- Full Drupal Installation (demo content included)
- Built-in Google Maps / Google Analytics widgets
- Custom view templates for blog, portfolio, and service pages
- Comprehensive Theme Documentation
- Dedicated Customer Support
- And much more!
Module Dependencies
At Theme Boutique, we take pride in developing lightweight and minimally constructed products focused on simplicity and ease of use. The Dawn theme is no exception, relying on very few modules to reach its full potential:
- Views
- jQuery Update
Spotlite ($20 value)
Dawn Tools (administrative toolkit used to manage display settings)
Demo Assets
Special thanks to the following for allowing the free use of their work in the Dawn theme demo:
Dan Fowler and tommerton2010 on Flickr for demo images- Zimoun: Sculpting Sound – https://vimeo.com/34711846 (video in homepage slider)
Changelog
1.7.1 (June 6th, 2017)
- Updated demo content
- Updated module dependencies
- Fixed user warning when running update module
- Added theme setting for Google Maps API key
1.7.0 (September 30th, 2015)
- Upgraded to Bootstrap 3
- Modernized design elements
- Increased grid with to 1140px
- Added Spotlite lightbox module
- Added custom view plugin to ease grid management
- Added custom maintenance page
- Added "Ionicons" HiDPI icon set
- Added "sticky header" and "return to top" theme settings
- Added 5 column grid view, removed 2 column grid view
- Rewrote theme's javascript, template files to make code more readable/editable
- Improved mobile, touchscreen behaviors for menus and hover states
- Improved grid sorting/filter management on grid views
- Improved theme settings, redesigned settings panel
- Upgraded Revolution Slider library to most recent version
- Updated documentation, demo content
- Updated RTL stylesheets to accommodate Bootstrap 3, updated styles
- Updated forum functionality, styles
- Removed unnecessary template files to make theme less dependent on hardcoded files
- Removed Honeypot, Simplenews, Views Isotope modules from theme package
- Removed Twitter Widget
- Dropped IE7/IE8 support with upgrade to Bootstrap 3
1.6.0 (September 20th, 2014)
- Removed Context, CAPTCHA modules
- Added jQuery Update, Honeypot modules
- Fixed issue with broken Isotope portfolios
- Fixed "flickering" animation issue on dropdown menus
- Fixed rendering issue with icons in IMCE window
- Fixed issue with image styles
- Updated documentation, demo content
- Updated Dawn Tools module
1.5.0 (January 6th, 2014)
- Added IE7/8 fallbacks for Revolution Slider captions
- Removed dependency on "Flippy" module for portfolio node pagination
1.4.0 (September 12th, 2013)
- Updated Revolution Slider module for use with Drupal 7.23
- Updated isotope.css and dawn.css to fix minor styling issues
1.3.0 (June 12th, 2013)
- Upgraded Twitter Widget to Twitter API v1.1
- Fixed masthead issue with "Basic page" content type
1.2.0 (May 31st, 2013)
- Added IE7 Support
1.1.0 (May 18th, 2013)
- Added Newsletter Support
- Added Multilingual / RTL Support
- Upgraded Theme Settings Layout
- Updated Documentation
1.0.0 (May 14th, 2013)
- Initial Release
For a complete version of the changelog and more information on updates, please refer to our support forums.
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Hi, I am interested in this theme. May i know do you have updated version with Bootstrap 3.x?
ReplyDeleteHi kcsimcity1,
ReplyDeleteA Bootstrap 3 version is in development, but at the time of writing this response Dawn only supports version 2.x of Bootstrap. I estimate the updated version is 1-2 weeks away. Sorry for any inconvenience!
Hi, Thanks for the reply. Please keep us updated here. I believe a lot of people interested on this theme that supporting Bootstrap 3.
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ReplyDeleteThe update is finally in the review queue, should be online within the next 24 hours.
I am considering purchasing your theme. I’ve read somewhere in here that it does support left sidebar, right sidebar and both sidebar content. Is there any way you can add pages to your demo that show how pages look with each of these page layouts? I’d really like to see an example showing both left and right sidebars together on a page to see how it looks before committing to the purchase. That’s the only concern for what looks to be an excellent theme. I’ll probably be purchasing this twice for two different clients. If you are unable to quickly add these pages to the demo, a screen capture image posted in reply to this would work just as well. Thanks a bunch.
ReplyDeleteHi wildlife77,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your interest in the Dawn theme. You can find an example of both sidebars by clicking here, the sidebar width can be modified in the theme settings if needed—the left and right sidebars don’t need to be the same width on the grid.
Within the next 1-2 weeks, we’ll be releasing version 2 of Dawn which will expand the grid from 940px to 1140px. While the current version will still be available for download, the updated version of the theme will have much more screen space if clutter is something you’re concerned about.
I hope this info helps, let me know if you have any questions!
Definitely helps. Thanks for putting that up.
ReplyDeleteIf we purchase this 940px version now, how difficult will it be to upgrade to the 1140px version later? For one of the sites, we need to have the site redesign completed and launched, preferably within this 1-2 week time period, so waiting isn’t a good option for us there. Also, will the update to version 2 be free for us if we purchase version 1 now?
If it will just be a matter of downloading and installing the new version once it is ready and all will look good, then we can do it that way and not wait. But if there will be more to it than that, waiting might be the better option. We have to have this launched before the end of the month at the absolute latest. Waiting 1-2 weeks only makes sense if it is the lesser of two evils for us because it will really put me up against the wall to complete all the needed customization in time.
We will be modifying the CSS of the look of the side columns using background colors and borders to make them stand out more from the main page content, but we will not be modifying the widths in any way.
So please let me know if changing to the 1140px version after having the 940px version installed will have any difficulties to it and we’ll decide whether to purchase now or to wait from that feedback.
We can definitely wait the 1-2 weeks for the other client as work on that project isn’t likely to begin until the beginning of September. I’m still awaiting 100% confirmation from them to go ahead with the purchase of your theme, but they’ve already chosen it as the one they want among the best options I showed them. It’s going to happen, it’s just a matter of when they give the green light.
Overall, it will be easier to start from version 2 (instead of upgrading from v1 to v2)—however an upgrade is still possible. The update process will consist of:
ReplyDelete- Updating template, CSS, JS files
- Overwriting old views with updated Views
Assuming you make no customizations to the theme, and use the default templates and views, upgrading from v1 to v2 would literally take 5 minutes.
If you make your own customizations to Dawn’s template files or views, on the other hand, you would need to manually implement your changes into v2 as well (obviously taking a bit longer).
The upgrade process really depends on how much you plan on changing the original structure of the theme. If you can afford to wait an extra 1-2 weeks it’s probably worth the wait, v2 will be much nicer.
Based on your reply here, I’m inclined to wait because of the customizations that will be done. However if there is any chance that the 1-2 weeks will end up being 3-4 weeks, for example, then we’d have to go ahead with v1 now. I’d say the latest we could wait would be until probably August 24. Can you let me know the chances of it extending beyond that date? I know that’s difficult to pinpoint if you’re in the middle of working on it.
ReplyDeleteAlso can you confirm that if we purchase v1 now, we’ll get v2 for no additional charge when it is done?
It will be 2 weeks, at a maximum, I actually wanted v2 online earlier this summer but the timing didn’t work out.
ReplyDeleteTraditionally all upgrades have been free here at ThemeForest. However, starting September 2015, Envato will start charging for support and upgrades 6 months after your initial purchase.
If you were to buy v1 this month, you would have access to free upgrades and support until February 2016.
So instead of $48 one time, the theme is going to be $48 every six-months? If so, that’s a game changer. I will have to let the clients know this.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think support/upgrades will cost as much as the theme, everything Envato has told us so far can be found on the Envato blog.
ReplyDeleteThe $48 license will be a one time fee, like it always has been. Free support and upgrades, however, will expire after 6 months.
If you refer to the screenshots in the blog post I linked to above, it looks like you will be able to buy a 12-month “support pack” for a fraction of the item cost. Here’s another post from Envato related to pricing for support extensions.
Regardless, this isn’t something exclusive to the Dawn theme, every item on both ThemeForest and CodeCanyon will be affected by these new policies.
It looks to me like the cost to purchase and have ongoing upgrades and support will be $62.40 for the first year and $48 per year after that. The $48 price gets 6-months of support and upgrades. Then $14.40 will get another 6-month extension. Then after that it will be $24 per 6-month extension, needing to be purchased twice a year. So it’s not as costly as I feared, but is definitely significantly more than it is now. I’ll have to discuss this with the clients from this point. Thanks a bunch for the heads up on this.
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