Drupal 5 Themes: Create a new theme for your Drupal website with a clean layout and powerful CSS styling

· Packt Publishing Ltd
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Create a new theme for your Drupal website with a clean layout and powerful CSS stylingKey Features
  • Learn to create new Drupal 5 Themes
  • No experience of Drupal 5 theming required
  • Set up and configure themes
  • Understand Drupal 5's themeable functions
Book DescriptionDrupal is an award winning open source Content Management System. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal?¢‚Ǩ‚Ѣs modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support.What you will learn
  • This book is the ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 5. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal website, this book is for you. Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. Included is a complete guide to the various style sheets and themeable functions in Drupal 5, making this book a valuable resource even to experienced theme developers. It covers:
  • Creating custom templates
  • Basics of theming in pure PHP
  • Modifying an existing PHPTemplate theme?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù a step-by-step guide
  • Creating a new PHPTemplate theme?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùa step-by-step guide
  • Working with forms
  • The main requirements to make use of this book are knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a touch of creativity! Although this book aims to make Drupal theming accessible to designers, theming in Drupal 5 involves writing some PHP code, and a basic knowledge of PHP will be helpful.
Who this book is for

This book is the ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 5. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal website, this book is for you. Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. Included is a complete guide to the various style sheets and themeable functions in Drupal 5, making this book a valuable resource even to experienced theme developers. It covers: Creating custom templates Basics of theming in pure PHP Modifying an existing PHPTemplate theme' a step-by-step guide Creating a new PHPTemplate theme' a step-by-step guide Working with forms The main requirements to make use of this book are knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a touch of creativity! Although this book aims to make Drupal theming accessible to designers, theming in Drupal 5 involves writing some PHP code, and a basic knowledge of PHP will be helpful.

Create a new theme for your Drupal website with a clean layout and powerful CSS stylingKey Features Learn to create new Drupal 5 Themes No experience of Drupal 5 theming required Set up and configure themes Understand Drupal 5's themeable functions Book DescriptionDrupal is an award winning open ...

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Ric Shreves is a web applications consultant and tech author. Hes been building websites since the mid-90s and writing about tech for almost as long. Ric specializes in open source content management systems and has written texts on each of the big three: WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. Ric is the founding partner of water&stone, a digital agency that focuses on new media and online marketing. He works with clients on digital marketing strategy and supervises the SEO implementation team. Ric lives in Bali and divides his time between the island and Singapore.

Ric Shreves is a web applications consultant and tech author. Hes been building websites since the mid-90s and writing about tech for almost as long. Ric specializes in open source content management systems and has written texts on each of the big three: WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. Ric is the...

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