You will learn techniques and best practices for configuring a flexible and extendable layout for your site, then you'll learn how to get more control over the look and feel by creating a custom theme in Drupal.
What You Will Learn
By the end of the training you will be able to:
Create custom layouts for landing pages on your site.
Make content appear dynamically based on where you are in the site structure.
Change the look of sections on your site.
Create a custom theme in Drupal.
Best practices for sustainable theming.
Audience
Web designers using Drupal.
Pre-Requisites
Required: Drupal Administration
Familiarity with HTML and CSS is required. PHP is not required.
Course Outline / Curriculum
Important Drupal Theming Concepts
Preparing a site for theming
Enabling themes and theme settings
Translating a design into a Drupal theme
Helpful browser extensions for Drupal theming
Creating the .info file and adding CSS
Customizing the page template file
Adding regions to the page template
Customizing the node template
Creating dynamic templates for specific node types