Drupal Themes for Beginners
Published by Mike Johnson on 2009-11-04 23:01:34
Creating a theme in drupal is all in all taking a plain website and giving it a certain look and feel.
Drupal uses what they call themes to manage the way your website is revealed to the end client. It does this by means of css and template files which are essentially standard html files with php placeholders. Most people get beleaguered by the entire theming thing but, it really isn't anything more that just understanding simple html and a little css. You will have a theme folder where all your changes should be made. By no means transform any primary files. This lets drupal to do its work and pass it to your theme folder where it will magically adjust the output to what you have incorporated in your theme.
For beginning themers its easiest to take a gaze at the standard drupal themes and reverse engineer them. Open up garland and check out the file arrangement, most have mainly the same files. Once you comprehend this then open up the files independently. Examine each of them, you will see its just html and a tiny bit of php.
With a little work you will begin being capable of doing thes themes on your own so leap right in, as long as you aren't altering the primary files you won't permanently hurt anything.
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