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I have created several Drupal themes and would like to start contributing them to the community. I would like to start with my most recent them which you can see on a production site here: modernbirdstudios.com. The contributed theme will be called "modernbird." I created it because I did not find anything similar in previous themes.

My theme is lightweight, ie6+, FF2+, and Safari3+ compatible and passes the w3c check for HTML 5. It is a two column theme optimized for 1024x768 with simple navigation and a nice wide right sidebar with a featured block. My theme is complete and ready for contribution.

I have seen theme availability as a little bit of a weak spot for Drupal when compared to some other CMSes. I have loved the Drupal project for a long time and think it could only benefit from more clean, valid, and modern themes. I plan to continue contributing future themes as I make them.

I also have selfish motivations for contributing themes to Drupal. By showing my work, I look forward to getting feedback from others who are no doubt better than I am at this sort of thing. By contributing my themes I believe I can become a better designer/coder. I am also interested in "getting my name out there" in hopes of getting more freelance design work.