Capital Camp ~ Level Up your Themer training

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2013-07-24 09:30 - 17:00 America/New_York
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Training (free or commercial)

What level themer are you? Ever wanted to upgrade your skill set and take your theming beyond your comfort zone?

In this course Chapter Three will start you off at the ground floor of Drupal 7 Theming and work our way towards becoming theming super heroes. We will walk you through the basic concepts necessary to start on your custom theme adventure. We'll then teach you the tools you need including basic php to implement your vision. Throughout the day we will demonstrate common pitfalls and how to work your way through them. You'll leave day 1 feeling empowered with new found abilities to control layout and add custom functionality via the theme. You'll walk away with a theme built from scratch and learn how to use a foundation provided by thousands of other of Drupal themers.

What you will learn:

Lvl0: Contrib Themes: What can you do without code?
Lvl1: Getting Started: Introduction, theme anatomy, .info files, common tools
Lvl2: Base Themes: How to sub-theme, picking a base theme, common tricks
Lvl3: Layouts without code: Mastering Display Suite and Panels
Lvl4: Tipple fips (.tpl.php): Drupal's cascading templates, introduction to simple PHP
Lvl5: Preprocess functions: Introduction to template.php, adding variables to templates

If you have any questions please contact kateATchapterthree.com!

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