This 29-page PDF guides new-to-Drupal designers and site builders through the process of creating a Drupal theme.
Step-by-step instructions are provided for:
- Creating your first Drupal theme.
- Adding variables to your template files.
- Using conditional statements to hide (and show!) custom regions in your page template.
- Creating custom pages in Drupal
- Customizing Drupal blocks
Theming Drupal: A first timer’s guide also includes tips on creating custom node templates, working with base themes and selling your own Drupal themes.
Whether you want to build and sell your own designs, or you’re a newly hired designer at a Drupal Web development shop, this ebook is for designers who know how to make a basic Web site using HTML and CSS and now want to expand their skills to include theming.
Praise for Theming Drupal: A first timer’s guide
“Theming Drupal: A first timer’s guide makes me dance. Every Drupaler should keep it around.” Amye Scavarda, Portland, OR
“[Theming Drupal: A first timer’s guide is] … essential for an industry designer to quickly get up to speed as a Drupal themer, a role for which there is a huge and growing demand.” Victor Kane, author of Leveraging Drupal
”… a fantastic starting place for someone new to PHP and creating Drupal themes. Theming Drupal: A first timer’s guide covers many of the very subjects that drove me up a wall trying to figure out as I started with Drupal theming …” Jared Stoneberg, Seattle, WA
“In the section Displaying Content with More Precision, is reference material you’ll come back to time and again; how to pluck out the labels and field values from node variables. Flatter portions of my forehead could have been saved by bookmarking this type of reference material.” Peter McMillan
“The chapter on theming blocks is guaranteed to be useful for almost anyone just starting out with Drupal theming.” Wayne Atkinson
“This ebook is a very efficient and easy to follow guide…” Rain Breaw, Los Angeles
“I don’t think I have seen another document that explains so many topics on theming in such a clear manner (and in so few words).” Steve Hanson, Wisconsin