Drupal Theming Course

Drupal Theming Course

By starting with the bare bones of Drupal theming to completing a custom theme, you will understand the concepts of overriding, intercepting and altering markup in Drupal. You will do a step-by-step walk through creating a new theme based on a well tested theme development framework using development best practices. You will go in more depth to coding a custom theme, using pre-process functions and theme functions to get fine-grained control. Then learn how to ensure your themes are secure, and stable. Learn how to control the output of CCK and Views.

Duration: 2 days
Date: March 26-27, 9am-4:30pm

Location: Vancouver, UBC (room tbd)

Prerequisites:
Site building experience with Drupal or completion of Drupal in a Day and Site builder training. Experience with HTML and CSS and some understanding or experience with PHP is preferred.

By the end of the training you will be able to:

* Understand the anatomy of the Drupal theming system
* Know how to create a theme for your website
* Know where to alter the look of Views output
* Be able to locate and override markup produced by Drupal through theme functions
* Be able to change contents of variables in templates
* Be familiar with secure and safe best practices for accessing and displaying data

What is provided:
Refreshments and snacks
Participants will receive printed manual that outlines step-by-step activities.
Depending on venue, participants will either be provided with a sandbox environment in a computer lab, or they will use their own computers.

For more information please check out: http://www.schoolvictoria.com/courses/drupal-theming

Feel free to also call: 1-800-215-6702 or 604-630-9725
Course material provided by www.Acquia.com
Training delivered by www.schoolvictoria.com and www.northStudio.com