Come join the Digett team as we present an all-day, hands-on Drupal theming workshop.
This workshop is aimed at a beginner to intermediate level, and will provide everything possible to bring you up to speed on the most fundamental element in leveraging Drupal to create a powerful, attractive solution for your clients. Planned sessions include theming basics, building a theme from the ground up, and theming Views and CCK. Bring your laptop and works-in-progress as we will be glad to help you hammer out any obstacles you are facing. We also plan on having a panel discussion including team members with expertise in development, design and business.
Details
We'll be meeting at the very hip Parish Room on 6th street. We are limiting seating to 35. Early bird rate is $199. We are in the process of building an online registration form, so until then you can simply inquire via email. Proceeds will benefit the Drupal Association.
About Digett
Digett is a web marketing firm based in Boerne, Texas. Drupal has become our CMS of choice and we are looking for ways to share our passion with others. Our recent projects include the Kentucky Derby and Crosby, Stills and Nash.
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What are Digett's contributions to the community?
Hello Digett team,
Thanks for the theming workshop as it sounds like a good opportunity for some folks to learn about this very important area. I know I could certainly use some hands-on instruction when it comes to theming! :)
Being that Drupal is open-source, could you please provide a list of Digett's contributions back to the Drupal community? For example, we all know how great Lullabots' podcasts are, and Four Kitchens here in Austin is not only hosting our June 5th Drupal meetup, but they are active members/contributors to various modules as well as helping out with Drupal database issues.
Also, are you saying that all participants will have, before they leave your workshop, built a theme from the ground up? I don't have a laptop and I don't have any works-in-progress so it would definitely be "from the ground up" for me. :) Will there be extra laptops available?
Your details state "Proceeds will benefit the Drupal Association." Will all proceeds benefit the Drupal Association, or only a portion?
Thanks in advance and good luck with the workshop! It sounds very helpful.
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
$50 Hosting Discount Helps Projects Needing Financing
Thanks for the follow-up
Thanks for the follow-up Walt.
As for a list of our contributions, I have helped with the sIFR module, and contributed the swfobject and nodeblock modules. I recently created the asset module which I am very excited about. I have submitted patches for gmap, nice_menus, and e-commerce. We try to offer any help that we can in the drupal.org forums. We were at drupalcon/oscms 2007 in sunnyvale this past march. I made it to the first Austin meetup at the Ginger Man and will be at the upcoming meetup at Four Kitchens.
Much of what we do is to promote drupal with our work. We recently finished the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks sites. We have previously built drupal sites for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (in many configurations... CN,CSN,GN).We are currently building two major sites for with Arizona State University. We specialize in taking top-notch designs and building them into Drupal themes. Digett has been using Drupal to develop custom solutions for our clients for almost a year now, and we believe can give a lot of guidance to up-and-coming drupal-ers.
The plan for the workshop is to take the attendees through the entire process of building a phptemplate based Drupal template. We are going to conceive a design and build out the template before the workshop, and then on the day of the workshop step through the process of creating that theme. It will cover not only the basics of drupal theming, but also theming specific node-types, views, and using different page templates. We plan to make time to help anyone that may be having some problems with the development of one of their own themes.