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Drupal 5 Themes

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Drupal 5 Themes

Overview of this book

Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 5 Themes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Appendix A

Summary


We started this chapter looking at how to find and install themes and we ended by trying to extract as much as we could from the default system. Given the flexibility of the system it is perhaps not surprising that a number of people work exclusively from the default themes. The Fluid Carbon example in this chapter shows that you can extract quite a bit from the basic set up.

As you will see in the chapters ahead, the techniques we covered in this chapter are just the beginning of what you can do with Drupal themes. Nonetheless, the configuration principles in this chapter, particularly as they relate to the use of Modules and Blocks and the control of visibility settings, are important for all theme work. We will come back to some of these points when we get more into heavy customization and building custom themes, in the chapters that follow.