Let's Zen! (Stop Theming From Scratch)
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Let's Zen! (Stop Theming From Scratch)
- 1. Stop Theming From Scratch... Let's Zen! Chris Charlton www.chrischarlton.us
- 2. Who am I? What am I? Chris Charlton – I teach, I write, I code. LA Drupal Manager – groups.drupal.org/LA LA AIR Adobe Group Manager – laair.org Drupal Training – drupaltrainer.com and drupallearning.com for info and dates.
- 3. What Unicorns Planned For Us Today: General overview of Drupal Themes. Parts of a Drupal Theme. How time consuming “from scratch” really is. Zen Theme: Vanilla for your sprinkles!
- 4. Drupal 6 Themes General Overview Themes can be installed/uninstalled at will. Site users can pick any theme you install. There are free themes, commercial themes, and any can be tweaked or sub-themed. Themes are made up of CSS and PHP files. Themes override core and module rendering.
- 5. Parts of a Drupal Theme (Terms) Page = the “shell” markup <head> <body> <div id=”header”> <div id=”content”> <div id=”custom-regions”> Region = area where blocks/content live Header Content Sidebar Left Sidebar Right Footer Node = a piece of content
- 6. Parts of a Drupal Theme (Files) Folder & files: .infofile = theme description/manifest style.css = the common name for main stylesheet template.php = powerful file; custom theme logic TPL (PHP/XHTML files; PHP Template) page.tpl.php node.tpl.php block.tpl.php comment.tpl.php ... and many, many more.
- 7. Theme Cost Graph – fake, but real. A = a free/core theme B = a budget theme C = a contrib theme D = a budgetted theme Price D B Themes take more C A than one pass, and themes always evolve. Quality
- 8. Spend $$$ on your theme Good themes keep sites out of the passive “Oh, just another Drupal site” stigma. Good themes grow with a site & don't smell. Theme code overrides rendering logic from core and module defaults. Your theme has final “say” on how anything should look. Modules provide theme “hooks” to override.
- 9. Save $$$ on your theme Join a theme framework project, like Zen! Others out there: Blueprint, The 950 Theme, Basic, ... Reduce or eliminate “from scratch” foundation work. Zen contains pre-declared CSS selectors: Tags: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, a, a:hover, a:visited, ... Common Drupal regions (IDs): #header, #footer, #content, ... Common Drupal styles (Classes): .node, .form-field, .block, ...
- 10. Where to read more about Zen http://drupal.org/project/zen Drupal Planet & Drupal Talk (blogs/feeds) Themer Group – http://groups.drupal.org/theme-development *Dreamweaver fans visit http://xtnd.us