Advanced Theming For Drupal 7
Learn to completely customize your Drupal theme by controlling all HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including forms.
What you'll learn
This Advanced Theming in Drupal 7 series picks up where the Theming Basics with Drupal 7 left off. This series will cover the new page rendering system, and shows you the process of iterating through the theming process with the use of various debugging statements and the theme developer tool. You'll get a crash course through PHP so that you can start using advanced theming concepts such as: how to theme forms, how to cleanly expose information to the theme system, and how to empower your site administrators by making certain parts of the theme available to them for customization. You'll also learn more about some of the new theming hooks in Drupal 7. By the end of the course, you'll have enough tools to be able to completely control the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that Drupal outputs. You can download the theme we're building, 960 Robots, from Drupal.org.
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About the authors
Joe Shindelar is a web developer, teacher, and snowboarding enthusiast who has been building Drupal sites and participating in Drupal core development since 2006. In addition to teaching Drupal, he is the lead developer for Drupalize.Me. Joe is a sought-after presenter who has spoken at numerous conferences, Drupal camps, and events about everything from code-level development to user interface, design, and community involvement. Joe is also very active in the Drupal 7 issue queue where he has h... more
Michelle Lauer started her Drupal adventures in 2006 and quickly became known for her incredible sense of detail while possessing the ability to see the big picture. These innate skills allowed Michelle to cultivate her specialty of site architecture and multi-phased deployments. In addition to custom module development and theming, she develops and implements the strategy for complex content architecture from the end-user experience to the manageability by website administrators.