By starting with the bare bones of Drupal theming to completing a custom theme, you will understand the concepts of overriding, intercepting and altering markup in Drupal. You will do a step-by-step walk through creating a new theme based on a well tested theme development framework using development best practices. You will go in more depth to coding a custom theme, using pre-process functions and theme functions to get fine-grained control. Then learn how to ensure your themes are secure, and stable. Learn how to control the output of CCK and Views.

Duration: 2 Days, 9:00am-4:00pm

Prerequisites: Site building experience with Drupal or completion of Drupal in a Day and Site builder training. Experience with HTML and CSS and some understanding or experience with PHP is preferred.

By the end of the training you will be able to:
Understand the anatomy of the Drupal theming system
Know how to create a theme for your website
Know where to alter the look of Views output
Be able to locate and override markup produced by Drupal through theme functions
Be able to change contents of variables in templates