North America

What’s new in Drupal 7 theming?

conference: Drupalcon San Francisco 2010

Drupal 6 introduced an enhanced templatIng system. For the past 2 years, the community has been striving to make our theming system really shine. But not only has the system been improved with easier to override defaults and more powerful functions, our designers have also given Drupal a make-over. Right from the installation screen, you can see that Drupal cares about the first impression it makes to the design community at large.

Drupal 7 here we come!

conference: Drupalcon San Francisco 2010

A panel of Palantiri come to you to discuss what they're thinking, planning, and anticipating in D7.

Default theme implementations: a guide for module developers who want sweet love from Morten and JohnAlbin

conference: Drupalcon San Francisco 2010

You only need to peak into the Views module's issue queue to see horror stories about trying to design sane default theme implementations that appeal to designers and themers. “Needs more classes!” “Too many divs!” “This CSS is awful!” “Earl, make me a pony!”

Architecting the theme layer

conference: Drupalcon San Francisco Core Developer Summit

Architect it! And then build it! We need a top-to-bottom design.

New Adventures in Drupal Theming

camp: Drupal Camp Chicago 2009

In this session I’ll present a roadmap to learning Drupal Theming. You won’t learn everything about Drupal theming, but you will learn that you don’t need to know everything in order to start building Drupal themes.

D7 Theming: so awesome you’ll need a change of pants

camp: Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2009

The changes to the Drupal 7 Theme layer aren’t revolutionary, but there are so many improvements, you may have trouble… ah… controlling yourself.

Making Drupal Dance: Techniques for Non-Obvious Theme Manipulations

conference: Design4Drupal Boston 2009

Quick tips for Drupal theming.

How to Kill Bluemarine: New Core Themes for Drupal 7

conference: Drupalcon DC 2009

Drupal 6 has a new theming layer that is wonderfully flexible and cool. And, yet, the themes that come bundled with Drupal 6 are the same old, boring ones we’ve had for a very long time.

But now we have a plan! We’ve outlined the steps we need to take in order to kill Blue Marine. During this session, we’ll present the current state of our plan, outline the quick steps we’ll need to make Drupal easier to theme, and discuss how to engage the larger CSS and Design community.

Designing with Drupal

conference: Do It With Drupal: New Orleans 2008

Drupal theming has long been seen as a dark art. There are many Drupalisms such as CSS class names, XHTML structure, and PHP knowledge which web designers should be aware of before embarking on a Drupal project. John Wilkins is a CSS ‣ master and the maintainer of Drupal’s respected Zen theme framework. This session will be a must for designers or anyone who has struggled with CSS.

Zen and the Art of Theming and the power of Base Themes

camp: Drupal Camp Colorado

The Zen theme is both a good learner’s theme for beginners and a powerful launch pad for advanced themers.

In this session we’re going to be discussing “The Power of Base Themes” and why even Theming-Fu Masters would be wise to use a base theme (even if they decide to roll their own.) We’ll also discuss some of the goodies that make Zen a flexible, pluggable, well-documented, feature-rich, minimally-styled, well-structured, CSS-powered über–theme.