Austin Meetup on Tue, 6/26/07, 7-9 pm @ Four Kitchen Studios. Topic: Theming Your Drupal Site, Part 1
Who
Calling all Central Texas Drupalers!
Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.
What
Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup!
As agreed at our 6/5 meetup, we'll discuss "Theming Your Drupal Site".
When
Tuesday, June 26th. 7-9 pm.
Where
Four Kitchen Studios
8701 Shoal Creek Blvd Ste 303
Austin, TX 78757
Office: 512-454-6659
A very warm "Thank you!" goes out to David Strauss and Four Kitchen Studios for allowing us to meet at their new offices. David has provided us directions and mentioned you should "Feel free to bring food, drink, and laptops."
Why
The Austin DUG wants YOUR participation and your fellow Drupalers want to meet you, make new friends/professional contacts, and learn about how you're using Drupal.
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I will try to be there
Excellent-- thanks for setting this up. Too early to confirm with certainty, but I plan to be there.
You can check out my profile for some of my past work, none of which strongly resembles Drupal default themes.
Currently, I'm working my way through piecing together dev.thebrazoscenter.com (purposefully not href'd, pls keep it that way).
Although theming is a major part of any site I've worked on, I have stuck mainly to image, css, and only the most basic templating (based on Views Theme Wizard output).
(and thanks to David & 4Kitch for the space yesterday and again for the meeting space and good info)
We may have a projector but...
Jim has offered to lend us a projector for the presentation, but we would still need a screen. Anybody out there have a portable projection screen they could bring or know somebody we could borrow it from for the evening?
Otherwise, we're looking at spending about $25 to rent one. In that case, it would be cool if some Drupalers could pitch in for the modest cost.
We have a screen and . . .
PACT has a screen and I'll bring it.
Spend the $25 on something else.
Is there URL on themes you recommend for background to check out before Tuesday?
I'm no theming expert
I'm no theming expert, but I can tell you a couple of things that have helped me to begin understanding theming. First, there is a free sample chapter from the "Pro Drupal Development" book that just happens to be the chapter on theming. The chapter stands on its own; you don't need to have read the rest of the book to understand it. It starts off simple and progresses into the more technical aspects.
To practice, you can try adapting one of the free designs from somewhere like Open Source Web Design or Open Web Design into a Drupal theme. For a first try, you'll probably want to pick one of the simpler, more Drupal-like themes. At least a few of the free Drupal themes got there start this way.
Lots of themes and customized web sites to peruse at these links
You might want to check out http://drupal.org/project/Themes, http://drupal.org/node/509, and http://drupalsites.net to get a feel of what's possible in terms of theming.
You can check out themes there to your heart's content! ;)
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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Perfect!
Thanks Stefan, you rock!
Wow, great meeting!
Todd- thanks for the excellent live demo on basic concepts of theming in Drupal. You also generated some good css discussion in the group (great crowd, eh! Four Kitchens is going to have to expand soon! ;) ), and I wanted to ask you to elaborate just a little on your magical three-even-height columns (where they all hit the footer together, regardless of what's going on in each of them).
Specifically, I'd like for my left column to hit the footer here:
dev.thebrazoscenter.com
like it incidentally does here due to content:
dev.thebrazoscenter.com/weddings/photos
(note, again, these are intentionally not prefixed with http://)
Holy Grail
I believe the technique Todd referred to was from the In Search of the Holy Grail article on A List Apart.
+1. Great meeting!
Thanks to Todd, David, and Aaron for providing great knowledge and facilities for everyone to meet at.
And thanks to Jim for the projector and Stefan for the screen. And thanks to Walt for bringing chairs...oh wait, that's me...never mind. ;)
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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Where's Nirvana?
I really like the "sample" theme Todd used for the demo - lots of simple but clever techniques.
Now, where is this theme? I can't wait to get my hands on it.