New to Drupal and Seeking Clarification and or help on Drupal Theming

Posted by Mr-Fabulous on June 10, 2009 at 4:46pm

I've been trying to get my head around exactly how I can prepare my own web page design using an external style sheet and adapt it for or fit it to, say for example, a zen sub theme. I get the impression that the main concern is that one builds one's page to suit a 1. 2. 3 or even 4 column design with header and footer and then depending on one's basic theme one can add blocks for content within those column areas and designate which content goes in which block? Perhaps I just haven't messed around enough yet with the other themes. I'm aiming to put together a social networking site to begin with.

Cheers

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Zen

Posted by Tschet on June 10, 2009 at 8:57pm

Zen is the place to start in my opinion. There other good base themes, but I think Zen is currently the best of them. I've been playing with the zenophile module for creating subthemes. Works nice, though I did have to add a patch.

Zen's base theme uses absolute positioning, but don't feel you have to use that yourself. I've done a variety of layouts and there really doesn't seem to be many limitations.