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All your html are belong to us #2 - Revenge of the markup

Day: 
Wednesday
Time: 
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: 
306 Trellon

Presented by

mortendk (mortendk)
geek Röyale
Design, Theme, and UsabilityDesign, Theme, and Usability
Style & substance: Learn about trends, techniques, and tools.

Drupal comes with a lot(!) of predefined markup & css.
Modules are adding styles and markup to the themes and so themers have limited control over whats going on inside the theme - that works well for some themers - others not so much.. or to put in other words:

"WTF does all this bib markup do in my bib site - aaargh for >>--bib--<< sake, Gimme lean mean mother >>--bib--<< 'ing markup"

This session is all about controlling and cleaning up the markup.
So the theme dont have to be build upan a markup that modules have defined - and when to understand that it makes sense to use the markup that drupal provides.

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prelude
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1. Why even bother about the markup?
its just html (!) ... cause we dont need to do ie6 anymore (and santa is real)

* Why design and markup and css is a hot threesome, but getting to choose whos gonna be there is crusial
* Why Developers are spawns of evil - and themers are heros that will safe the day + get the prince / princess (of your own chooosing)
* woudnt it be wonderfull if theming were just like writing html

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You put the X in sex
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2. Understanding why drupal theming is like it is. and not like you think it is
* How to kiss your developer on the first date.
* understanding what it is drupal is really doing, and why its messing with the markup ...and why you should stop crying!

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Among the Theming
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3. CCK
* no more divitis
* when to cut the crap and when not to.

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Views were made for loving you
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4. Views 2
* Win & losses. when you should be accepting the drupal way (and when take your own)
* How to be a views rockstar rocking the tiplphips, without getting hurt

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Can I play with panels
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5. Panels 3
* Uuuuuh mamma! control panels by 2 lines of code
* doing almost whatever you wanna do

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Master of templates
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6. Subtheming and öwesome tools
* Inheritance - subtheming ftw!
* why you shold stop crying over spilled html (and css)
* * Take out the crap! - Dude I didnt ask for that class so get it outta my markup RFN!
* Why the mothership the is pretty goddamn awesome, but dosnt really do anything!

Disclaimer: there will be no half naked danes in this session...

Experience: Intermediate, Advanced, Expert
Industry: media
Tags: awesome, cck, panels, rock n roll, templates, theming, views

I am REALLY looking forward to this session! The abundance of html and classes in the html is (what I consider to be anyway) one of the drawbacks to Drupal.

Good to know it can be done - can't wait... :~)
Thank you!!
~ Jim