Cellular is a base theme for managing the front-end assets of Drupal 7 from a single code base. It provides the ability to easily manage assets using theme preprocess functions and the flexibility to use blocks or panels or display suite for laying out content.
Issues with Drupal UI development:
- Core templates (and others) use a ton of markup that can make styling difficult.
- Mo modules, mo problems.
- Features are nice, but I like code better.
- Modules inject unnecessary css & js.
- More modules, more database calls, less performance.
- CDN + local fallback sources should be used when possible- can't do so through theme.info
Cellular addresses these issues:
- Preprocess functions & templates strip unnecessary markup.
- Add/Update/Delete css & js with theme functions.
- fewer modules, fewer database calls, more performance.
- CDN + local fallback sources can be used.
- Manage code, not database.