Theming From the Ground Up

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megan_m's picture
Start: 
2012-05-17 19:00 - 21:00 America/Toronto
Event type: 
User group meeting

In this session we will explore the world of Drupal theming from the ground to the tree tops. Topics include:

  • Basic structure of a theme
  • What's new in Drupal 7
  • Where does that code come from?
  • Customizing Drupal's HTML output
  • Demo: Creating a custom theme
  • The road ahead: Initiatives and proposals for Drupal 8
AttachmentSize
theming-ground-up-final.pdf2.3 MB

Comments

Location

Bluenose37's picture

Is this being held at The Working Centre?

Allan Aylard
http://bluenosejr.com

May 17th

SReiblin's picture

See you May 17th at 7pm at the working centre! cheers.

I would also love some insight into sub-theming and working with them.

working centre

angus_muir's picture

Being new I don't know where the working centre is. Can you give more specifics?

Group details

SReiblin's picture

Hi,

I found this group a bit hard to navigate, but all the info. is on this page.
http://groups.drupal.org/waterloo-region

Yes, this event will be held

megan_m's picture

Yes, this event will be held at the Working Centre in Kitchener. Here's a link to a Google Map

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=The+Working+Centre,+Kitchener,+ON,+Canada&...

SReiblin - thanks for your suggestion! I will put something about sub-theming into the presentation.

If anyone else has any suggestions, please post and I will do my best to incorporate them into the presentation.

Slides are now posted. Thanks

megan_m's picture

Slides are now posted. Thanks to everyone who came out :)

Thanks to Megan

Miltonv@mac.com's picture

Hi Megan,

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on Thursday evening. Although I'll probably never build my own theme, your explanation helped me to understand the way a theme works.

Useful for someone just starting out -- and moving to a new server this week:
<palstratford.org>

Milton

Thank you!

SReiblin's picture

Thank you Megan for your presentation!

I especially appreciated the structure of how theme elements fit together.

Shawna

Just recently joined the group

hbalagtas's picture

I wish I could have been there, hope to join you guys on the next event.