Theming handbook for 6

Posted by dvessel on February 25, 2008 at 6:10pm

Hello, I'm just posting here to let everyone know that the bulk of the new theming handbook is up. Most of it has been rewritten and reorganized. I hope it is accurate and clear enough to get everyone familiar with the theming system.

~~It's still missing sections on sub-theming (which can get really fancy BTW). I hope to get a few solid explanations and illustrations on the possibilities.~~ Engineless themes and theme engine sections are not there yet but I don't think it's too critical.

JavaScripting could use some help too. I hope someone can fill that in.

It's late, but it's better now than piling up on the old material in the old theming handbook.

http://drupal.org/node/171179

-joon

Comments

Awesome work!

Posted by michelle on February 25, 2008 at 6:19pm

I've been using your docs as you were writing them. It was funny refreshing the tabs I had open and seeing it change. Hehe.

The docs are really amazing. Great work!

Michelle

See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region

Wow Joon!

Posted by jacine on February 25, 2008 at 8:16pm

This is really beautiful stuff. It's so thorough, well organized and well put together. It's some of the best drupal documentation I've seen :)

Bless you.

Posted by Steven_NC on February 25, 2008 at 8:51pm

Thanks for the good work. Many of us come with an html/css background but rely on the kindness of strangers for the Drupal/php part. I firmly believe that well written handbooks are the thing that will bring Drupal to the masses. Thanks.

Agreed. This is fantastic.

Posted by moshe weitzman on February 25, 2008 at 8:51pm

Agreed. This is fantastic. Promoted to front page.

Great! I Appreciate it.

Posted by dvessel on February 25, 2008 at 8:52pm

Great! I Appreciate it.

I don't write much on any topic so I wasn't sure if it was totally clear or not. Glad it worked out. :) If I had the time, I'd illustrate every concept and behavior since I'm more visual in my thinking.

Cheers!

Great work

Posted by steinmb on February 25, 2008 at 9:56pm

Fantastic! Good structure and I specially liked the illustrations!

--
Stein Magne
http://smbjorklund.com

Brilliant mate

Posted by codevelopment on February 26, 2008 at 6:24am

Thanks for this great work Joon, I think I'm going to be referring back to this a lot. Really well structured and laid out. If you expanded on this and published it as part of a book on the subject I'd buy it!

Required reading for all Drupal designers and developers I reckon.

Heh, there was going to be a

Posted by dvessel on February 26, 2008 at 11:09pm

Heh, there was going to be a book but it never happened. I wouldn't want to go through writing a book after working with the handbooks. It's work that isn't too satisfying but bring in them designers. We need more of them.

Fantastic work

Posted by elv on February 27, 2008 at 2:11pm

And as a designer I want to thank you. This is very very useful!

Absolutely stunning

Posted by marcrobinsone on February 27, 2008 at 4:54pm

10/10 over-all overview. Perfect graphics and visualization. Awesome arrangement of ideas, well-thought references, very informative technical writing... dang I'm losing words to describe the greatness of your effort.

Keep the goodies coming! Will be here for moral support ;)

Marckee for Short

Wonderful!

Posted by rhache on March 2, 2008 at 7:17am

The new handbook is fantastic!! Congrats on a fabulous job and thank you for all the work you will save me!

Sincerely,
Rene

w00t! With a capital

Posted by Bevan on March 2, 2008 at 5:42pm

w00t! With a capital zero/naught!

Bevan/

Killer

Posted by johnvsc on March 6, 2008 at 7:11pm

I need to spend some time here....

oh, and FYI http://groups.drupal.org/node%252F9400

duh... i forgot

Posted by johnvsc on March 6, 2008 at 7:12pm

If you need assistance, I would love to be of help... in anyway i can

just improve it

Posted by dvessel on March 7, 2008 at 1:13am

If you or anyone else can improve it in anyway that would be great. Being clear and concise is important I think. Or just critique it. I appreciate the comments so far but I know it can be better.

Any suggestions on what should be in there and more importantly, what shouldn't be in there would also help. I really don't know what else to ask.

ok... thanks

Posted by johnvsc on March 7, 2008 at 6:17pm

I will take a deep look at it this weekend and then run through it on my DWAMP. If i can add anything, i will. Also, i love the visualizations .... did you create the icons from scratch or are they canned? ... If you can share them, can we download them so that all the graphics can look the same for continuity?

you know, if you understand what an icon means in the system, things become clearer

cheers

Doh! I'll put up all the

Posted by dvessel on March 12, 2008 at 9:48pm

Doh! I'll put up all the source files over this weekend. Most of it was done with OmniGraffel with the exception of the tree drawing which was done in Illustrator.

The Icon was canned. Came as part of a stencil pack so it should probably be changed.

excellent work, btw, man...

Posted by purrin (not verified) on March 13, 2008 at 2:30am

excellent work, btw, man...

FYI, I nudged Steven Peck a

Posted by moshe weitzman on March 12, 2008 at 6:09pm

FYI, I nudged Steven Peck a bit during the code sprint last week and he incorporated this book into http://drupal.org/handbook where everyone can now find it.

Thanks, I just noticed a few

Posted by dvessel on March 12, 2008 at 9:52pm

Thanks, I just noticed a few days ago. I know he's been busy.

I would like to add in my findings

Posted by dipen chaudhary on April 1, 2008 at 7:27pm

hi,
handbooks help me day in and day out and hence needless to say that I appreciate documentation as much as the code, Great work dvessel and the team :) .. What's the procedure to add into the handbooks or contributing to documentation in general .. I was gonna write on my website but I think If I put my findings here I will be benefitted more with the criticism and corollaries (as they call in geometry :) )

thanks

Dipen Chaudhary
http://dipenchaudhary.com
http://playdrupal.com (under construction)

Dipen Chaudhary
Founder, QED42 http://www.qed42.com Drupal development