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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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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
Hi, I would be interested in
Hi,
I would be interested in taking the course but have few questions. How it will be organized?
Will those be live lectures online at a particular time and we will have to be available at that moment or will you have them recorded so we can watch them when we can? Online discussions? Homework?
Thanks,
Liga
The last comment here is
The last comment here is about a month old. Is this course a no go?