This full-day workshop introduces the fundamental concepts of theming a Drupal site. Starting with the anatomy of a Drupal theme before moving on to creating subthemes, working with template files, and writing CSS, this workshop is designed to get students oriented with Drupal theming.
- Discussion about separating content from presentation
- Examples of theme-switching in Drupal
- Intro to XHTML
- Intro to CSS
- Intro to PHP (print $content;)
- Breaking down a Drupal site (page, node, block, etc...)
- Anatomy of a theme
- page.tpl.php
- node.tpl.php
- template.php
Skill Level
Beginner
Intended Audience
Newbies
Themers
Graphic designers
Bloggers
Prerequisites
The ability to administer content, comments, and user on a Drupal site.