Drupal Themeing

TRAINING COURSE

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Details Audience and Pre-Requisites Course Outline / Curriculum

Details

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.

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

  1. Important Drupal Theming Concepts
  2. Preparing a site for theming
  3. Enabling themes and theme settings
  4. Translating a design into a Drupal theme
  5. Helpful browser extensions for Drupal theming
  6. Creating the .info file and adding CSS
  7. Customizing the page template file
  8. Adding regions to the page template
  9. Customizing the node template
  10. Creating dynamic templates for specific node types
  11. Using the theme developer module
  12. Adding JavaScript to a theme
  13. Tour of popular page template variables
  14. Adding a screenshot to your theme
  15. Conclusion to Theming Basics