Posted by Kate Miller on May 7, 2012 at 5:48pm
Start:
2012-06-20 09:30 - 2012-06-21 05:30 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
Training (free or commercial)
This two-day workshop teaches you to create your first custom theme from scratch. You’ll learn how well-built themes integrate seamlessly with the rest of Drupal. You’ll customize the basic look for your site by creating a basic layout, defining block regions and adding a custom style sheet. You’ll see how to override template files from Drupal core and contributed modules. As we explain how to work with PHP, we’ll also show you how to use Drupal’s internal functions to make your data safe for display.
Here are the details: http://chapterthree.com/training/workshops/2012-jun-20
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Hello, I'm David
Theming is the most important part of making your website. It's what your visitors will see and what they will interact with and what they will remember. A good theme makes visitors feel comfortable, helps drastically improve SEO and makes your site accessible.
And I have a secret for you - it's also one of the easiest parts for drupal beginners to learn! If you already know html and css, those same skills can be applied to your Drupal site. If you're scared of PHP, you'll be happy to discover just how intuitive Drupal theming can be. I didn't know PHP when I first started theming, but it's something that becomes part of your skill set naturally as you go.
I'll be one of the trainers leading this workshop and I'm very excited for the opportunity to help you get to the next level of Drupal. Everyone has some bumps in the road starting out. Everyone tries Drupal and gets stuck at some point. We're here to help.
Please feel free to reply here with questions or comments or contact us directly.
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David Needham
Team Lead of Training at Datadog