Posted by damian-gdo on May 29, 2009 at 7:02pm
Hi all,
I've been trying to design my own theme. Can anybody recommend a basic guide to theming on Drupal 6 - the more basic the better. Idiot proof is best. Any suggestions welcome.
Cheers,
Damian
Categories: theming, theming book
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Zen theme
Hi Damian,
Have you played around with the Zen theme? It has a great 'starter kit' and set of instructions to follow in order to create a fixed or flexible width theme:
http://drupal.org/project/zen
There are a couple of other similar kits around.
Let us know how it goes...
Genesis
I remembered the name of the other one to try:
http://drupal.org/project/genesis
Thanks for the help, Steve.
Thanks for the help, Steve. I started with the Zen theme, then I got caught up with the Advanced Theme Construction Kit, which I hoped would be a fast track to a brilliant theme but found it rather confusing, so I'm going back to Zen. Not heard of Genesis so will try that too. What do you think about the idea of doing a workshop on theming? Cheers.
Theming cheat sheet
Hi Damian,
Just seen http://twitter.com/hashdrupal tweet this Drupal theming cheat sheet, thought it might be of use:
http://ow.ly/aowp
If you are proficient with
If you are proficient with HTML and CSS. I just create the page.tpl.php file and create the whole layout without any PHP, adding in some lipsum for the drupal content. Then once I am happy with the page I slowly start taking out the lipsum and adding in the PHP adding in theme overrides in template.php where needed to get the required result.
I have a book called Drupal 5 Themes, written by Ric Sheeves which is fairly basic and gives you all the different varaibles available in node.tpl.php and page.tpl.php etc, I assume there will be one for Drupal 6...Yes there is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drupal-Themes-Create-Powerful-Styling/dp/1847195...
James Tombs
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Another new book worth exploring is Front End Drupal...
As long as you have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, this book explains the Drupal 6 theme concept pretty well. It also has some suggestions for using starter themes like Zen.