April Brevard County Meeting Notes

First I wanted to thank everyone for coming and special thanks to Mike on the theming presentation you gave. We had 9 people show to our 2nd meeting. Here are the notes I took:

Using Domain Module vs Multisite

Domain Module - http://drupal.org/project/domain

Themes Discussed

Blueprint - http://drupal.org/project/blueprint
Link to using Blueprint http://drupaleasy.com/blueprint
Ninesixty - http://drupal.org/project/ninesixty
Fusion - http://drupal.org/project/fusion
Zen - http://drupal.org/project/zen

Theme Modules

BlockTheme - http://drupal.org/project/blocktheme
BlockTheme allows an admin to define tpl files for standard block templates and provides a select box on the block configure form so the user can select a tpl file to use as opposed to having to override the templates by block ID.

Skinr - http://drupal.org/project/skinr
Skinr's main purpose is to allow the theme to define a set of reusable and modular CSS styles, and to make those styles available in Drupal's UI.

Drupal.org template naming suggestions

http://drupal.org/node/190815

template.php

Where to hook into theme functions including the Dark Magic of adding variables/forms to theme settings

Subtheming/INFO file Reference

http://drupal.org/node/171205

Tools for Theming

Devel Module - http://drupal.org/project/devel
Theme Developer Module - http://drupal.org/project/devel_themer
Firebug - http://getfirebug.com/

Personal Fav's

Web Developer Toolbar (similar to Firebug) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
View Source Chart (DOM Inspector) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/655

Open Source Web Design

http://oswd.org