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Drupal Theming & Tweaking
Drupal Theming & Tweaking
I'm a software engineer from Barcelona, Spain.
I've been working for almost 10 years on private companies related to Urgent Transportation and Logistics as IT Manager, programmer, consultant and board member.
During that time I was doing some freelance jobs and personal projects until 2007, when I joined a friend and co-founded Strabinarius, a programmer's studio that allows me to work on my own.
I've been building websites these last years and I've learned some about web standards, client&server-side programming, PHP, web development methodologies, php, css and javascript frameworks, Wordpress theming and programming, Drupal theming and programming, Community studies, Semantic web, microformats, web services programming, SEO theory and techniques,...
And a long etcetera including a lots of worthless knowledge that at least allows me to gather a little and during a few seconds my b i g p i c t u r e of the internet phenomena.
The p2pu is a bright spot to learn: a chance to give back some to the Community and to be part of a very satisfying experience.
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Danie
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Summary
Drupal Theming and Tweking is an introduction to Drupal advanced theming and module development.
Course photo Water Drop by Naked_Eyes
On this course we will give an overview of a few key concepts that will help us to understand how to fit Drupal output to fit your design. Some techy ethimology may give confidence to those with a less technical background or with little Drupal experience.
Learning objectives
Tweaking
- Understand the drupal hook system
- Create your own modules and start to hook into
- Use the Drupal form API to create and alter any form on your website
Theming
- Understand the drupal theming and template system
- An introduction to css frameworks
- Create your own advanced theme by using a base theme
- Template and function theming
Schedule/Syllabus
Prerequisites
This course is intended for web programmers or web designers willing to control the output of Drupal core and contrib modules of a website.
A good knowledge on HTML & CSS is assumed and some previous experience on PHP programming will be welcome for those more interested on the tweaking part.
Attendants to the course should be able to do a drupal fresh install on a computer on their own.
Some understanding about templating systems like phptemplate or smarty will be helpful.
Sign-Up Task
Please note: The sign-up task is listed here as background information. Please only submit your answers via the sign-up form (not as comments or direct messages to the course organizer).
Still to be defined. The course will be open very soon. :)
In the meantime, some proposed readings...
If you want to get started and want a quick introduction to drupal insights, have a look at this next article.
Some of the concepts on this article are not considered on further versions of Drupal, (meaning Drupal 7 ). Though the global concepts definitions are still valid.
I'll be happy if at the end of the course you completely understand a document like that and use this knowledge to safe you some headaches on controlling the looks of your drupal website.
Authors: Alister Lewis-Bowen (alister.lewisbowen@gmail.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM, Software Group Stephen Evanchik (evanchsa@gmail.com), Software Engineer, IBM, Software Group Louis Weitzman (louis.weitzman@gmail.com ), Senior Software Engineer, IBM, Software Group
Summary: (...) This article introduces the Drupal programming model used in developing Web sites and includes a description of different types of content, developing new features using modules, implementing hooks to enable those modules, and site URL design.
CMS theming becomes easier if you know some about grid systems and understand css frameworks like Blueprint or 960gs.
Author: Mark Boulton, for Five Simple Steps.
Summary:A grid is an instrument for ordering graphical elements of text and images, css framework Blueprint and Drupal.org redesign case
Comments
Hey Daniel - The course looks
Hey Daniel - The course looks great. If you want, feel free to use the p2pu.org site itself for project work. There are lots of things that could be improved in the theme we are using, and we'd love to get some help and input. Post on the community or dev list (http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-dev) if you want me to introduce you to the developer.
Hola, Phillipp. Thanks for
Hola, Phillipp.
Thanks for the comment.
I've just joined the group and have a look to what's going on.
Hi Daniel - make sure to add
Hi Daniel - make sure to add a strong sign-up task. This will help select the right group of motivated participants if you get hundreds of applications.
Hi Daniel, this course would
Hi Daniel, this course would be perfect for me. I've created several websites with Wordpress but never with Drupal. I'm currently involved in a start-up where I will be developing a drupal site. What is the sign-up task so that I can apply?
Thanks for the comment. I
Thanks for the comment.
I used wordpress too and liked it a lot, too.
I hope I'll finish the course definition on a two or three weeks, so if there's any specific subject of your interest, let me know.
D.
Yeah, i'm interested too,
Yeah, i'm interested too, what is the sign-up task? I see that we have to look on an article but which one? Thanks!
Since I've been working a
Since I've been working a short period of time on Drupal, I am very interested in it. I've been working only with contributed modules and themes. Thus this course is absolutely fantastic to me since I always want to have my own themes on my websites. Thus I can't wait to get started!
I am really looking forward
I am really looking forward to this course. I've been developing with CMS systems for years and set up a couple of basic Drupal projects last year. However, I would love to actually get to know the innards of skinning and tweaking that thing, especially in the new version.
I want to join this link I
I want to join this link I think a good signup task would be to install drupal 6 on a domain and install modules and themes we will be working on. I really want to learn the theming aspect of it such as moving around modules and such Definitely Info on the hooks and also maybe with editing the actual tpl template file for styling and such
interested in this to round
interested in this to round out my themeing knowledge. have been building drupal sites for +5 years now, our worker-coop hosts drupal sites, and my themeing has always relied on css + .tpl hacking.
would be good for me to go through a structured way of how one is supposed to do this (using hooks especially and overrides)
also I was only just shown this website today, so I'm not quite sure the process here. Looks to me like maybe this course isn't quite ready to go yet? or?
I've developed a lot of
I've developed a lot of Wordpress sites and in general theme from scratch. I've tinkered with Drupal over several years but would love the opportunity for more structured learning.
Can we sign up now or do we need to wait for the task?
Hi Daniel. Great idea for a
Hi Daniel.
Great idea for a course. I have been developing websites using basic CMS solutions(Wordpress, Wolf, Frog CMS etc.) and I become more interested in Drupal just couple weeks ago. It would be a great advantage for me to learn it from a professional back-end programmer.
Take care.
I am very interested in this
I am very interested in this class! I have some experience creating sites with Drupal, but am an intermediate user. A few sites I am working on now use Drupal, but most of the hard parts were done by other team members and it's about time I learn it as well!
Thanks.
Hi there, I'm also really
Hi there, I'm also really interesting in this course. I look forward to seeing what the sign-up task will be!
Eleonore
Hi all.I am also interested
Hi all.
I am also interested in this course.
When will the sign-up task be defined?
Hi Daniel, I have so far
Hi Daniel,
I have so far worked on 4 Drupal sites. My work has been mainly limited to theming. This course should help me start creating modules and tweak forms, something I struggle with currently.
I'm very interested and went
I'm very interested and went ahead and pre-registered for this class. I've taught myself how to use Drupal over the past 5 years. I manage several Drupal sites including the very complicated hastac.org. I have a very good understanding of how to administer Drupal, and have done lots of theme modding, but would love to take this course to formalize and fill-in the gaps in my knowledge.
I recently started using Drush to do site updates and would strongly encourage others to check it out. Perhaps it could be covered in this class or a future one?
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I have a background in both
I have a background in both Joomla and WP, but the new release of Drupal 7 has me interested again. I have been building, tweaking and modifying on my test server, trying everything out, and keen to increase my knowledge. I look forward to the course.
Hi, I'm interested in this
Hi,
I'm interested in this course ,i have a previous experience with Joomla , and also i worked for some time with Drupal .I really want to discover drupal's features and learn to customize themes properly .
Thanks,
Nada
Hola! My apologies to those I
Hola!
My apologies to those I didn't answer, and thanks for the comments and your interest on the Drupal T&T course.
I'm behind with the course contents and structure, and it will delay scheduled date for this course.
It's been a very exciting january month with the official Drupal 7 release and it may be a good idea to gather some of this new features on the course.
I'll Keep you posted.
Cheers,
Daniel
Really looking forward to
Really looking forward to being in this class. I need to learn!
I'm really looking forward to
I'm really looking forward to this course! Anybody know when we will know whether or not our application for the course has been accepted?
Hi Daniel, I've tried to
Hi Daniel,
I've tried to signup a few times, but I don't think I am on any list anywhere. Can I only apply once you have actually put the sign-up task up? Or can I sign up now?
Hi, I've been looking forward
Hi, I've been looking forward eagerly for a course like this. Really I need to learn this.
hi Daniel, Just wondering if
hi Daniel,
Just wondering if there was an update on possible start date, I imagine all the Drupal 7 goodness has kept you busy.
Hola, everybody First of all,
Hola, everybody
First of all, I must apologize to you all.
I've been busier than I expected and I'm afraid I have to move the Course start date to 23th of March.
On the next days I'll be contacting all the applicants and sign up will close on the second week of february.
Thanks for your understanding and keep tuned.
Hello, very nice Drupal
Hello,
very nice Drupal lessons.
Should be more @ P2P.
I work with Drupal the last 2 years.
nice post,Thanks for your
nice post,Thanks for your understanding and keep tuned.
Hola Daniel, I just wonder
Hola Daniel,
I just wonder what will be the sign up task?
or i just can sign up 4 the course?
thanks you!
Hi Daniel -- Need any help
Hi Daniel -- Need any help getting the course going? I'm looking forward to attending, and notice the syllabus is not filled in yet, for example. Has the course been delayed due to your busy schedule? dan[A]danbashaw[D]com