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"Intro to theme development" Hands-On Training - Lullabot

Class Description

Drupal Theming focuses on the look and feel of a Drupal site. We look at all of the tools available to override the default output and make Drupal beautiful. (Yes! It can be beautiful.) In several cases there can be more than one way to accomplish a task and we will provide guidelines and tools for making themes that stand up over time. Attendees of this course should be familiar with HTML and CSS (some PHP knowledge is also recommended for advanced topics).

Topics covered include:

  • Anatomy of a theme
  • CSS only theming
  • Template files
  • Template variables and preprocessing
  • Theme function overrides
  • Tools and tricks for themers