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Instant Premium Drupal Themes

By : Pankaj Sharma
Book Image

Instant Premium Drupal Themes

By: Pankaj Sharma

Overview of this book

Drupal’s theme layer, and the themes that use it, are responsible for the look and feel of a Drupal web site. Themes have the final say and ultimate control over almost every aspect of each page. Good themes consist of all the same elements that you would find on any reputable web site, including standards-compliant XHTML markup, CSS, and JavaScript. How it all comes together is what is so special and what makes Drupal themes so flexible and powerful. Premium Drupal Themes is a practical, hands-on guide filled with clear, step-by-step examples which shows you how to create Drupal themes using HTML. This book will show you the best practices and conventions that you should adopt and utilize so you can change the way Drupal looks using HTML without wasting energy digging through Drupal’s code. Starting with the essentials including Drupal terminology and Drupal theme structures, this book will show you how to configure raw HTML in a Drupal environment. You will learn about the Drupal template variables and also how to populate a Drupal theme with dynamic content. You will also discover how to customize the search result page and how to add regions to your home page. This book will help you familiarize yourself with the theme engines and will help you learn about the core of Drupal’s theme rendering system. Finally, you will learn how to create your very own Drupal theme that will take people’s breath away!
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Pradeep Saran is the founder of Devsaran (http://devsaran.com/), a Bangalore-based software development startup that specializes in developing modern web applications. His primary focus is frontend development and web application development.

He has been very active in the Drupal open source community. He has developed and maintains contributed modules and themes on drupal.org. His Drupal user account can be found at https://drupal.org/user/1031208.

Anton Sidashin is the CEO and, at the same time, the developer of a small Drupal agency, Pixeljets.com, which specializes in building beautiful Drupal projects and themes—both commercial and open source. The core of the agency is Anton and his brother Oleg, and there is also a team of Drupal and Symfony2 ninjas who help these brothers a lot.

He has been working with Drupal since the release of its 4.5 version in 2005, when he fell in love with the flexibility and power of this CMF.

He is a Zend-certified PHP5 engineer and he also worked as the senior architect of CS-Cart 2 e-commerce solutions back in 2007-2008.