Drupal Theming training

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2014-06-23 09:00 - 2014-06-24 17:00 Europe/Brussels
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Training (free or commercial)

Audience

Front-ender: You know your basics (HML, CSS, jQuery), but don’t know how to get your design on a drupal site? Get to this training and you’ll learn everything about theming in drupal.

Site builder: You know how to set up a drupal site and how to extend it with modules? Now comes the time to learn how to change the theme of your site or how to apply your own theme. 

Developer: You know how to manipulate code, how to extend drupal with your own modules? This training can give you an insight in the theming layer of drupal. 

Hobbyist: Drupal is your system of choice. You regularly try to build a small website. This course will help you to change the layout of your drupal site by applying a theme.

Professional (non-technical): As a non-technical professional, that tries to build a small website in drupal, this training will help you to get rid of the default theme on your website.

Value

Knowing how to manipulate the display of your site, will give you extra control over your site. 

You will be able to turn any static design into a Drupal theme.

Any developer getting this training will better understand the job of a Drupal front-ender.

Front-enders will learn the power of base themes and how they can accelerate their build-time for a theme by using them.

Deliver powerful user experiences to your customers by learning how to implement Drupal its theming layer.

Example and cases

Stop being stuck with default templates

Using existing templates can be great, it just isn’t always easy to get what you want. After this Drupal training course you will be able to write your own templates and modify them.

Step up to responsive

At Dropsolid we only create websites that are responsive. These days you just need to be optimized for mobile. This course is needed to follow the advanced course. This will unlock an even greater potential.

Contents

  • Themes

    What are themes in Drupal? Anatomy of a theme.

  • Base themes

    Extending existing themes.

  • CSS

    Use your own CSS in a theme.

  • Preprocess

    Explanation of Drupal preprocess functions.

  • Template files (tpl.php)

    Learn what template files are and how to use them.

  • Hook_theme

    A powerful hook that you need to use while teaming. 

  • Slicing

    Slice a design and convert it to a Drupal theme.

  • Panels

    How to use panels to layout pages in Drupal.

  • Omega

    This is a responsive Drupal base theme. Learn how to build your theme on top of it. 

  • Display suite

    This toolkit eliminates node templates. Learn how to theme like a pro.

ROI

How to calculate ROI?

Image you have 5 front enders in the team and they are working without Drupal themes every time they are creating html from scratch, slicing their designs. This takes time. Easily it takes up to two days to slice a design. Imagine now that your front enders can develop Drupal themes at the same time. Always reusing stuff and just changing custom pieces? This could drastically lower your time to deliver designs.

Let us say you have to create 5 designs a month and you can double this making smart use of Drupal theming? Not only do you create designs you also tie it in your functionality. Eliminating these steps makes you front end designers so much faster.

In just the course of one month this training course has a ROI.