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Drupal 6 Themes

By : Ric Shreves
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Drupal 6 Themes

By: Ric Shreves

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System (CMS). Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.<br /><br />Drupal employs a specialized templating system and supports themes, which allow you to change the look and feel of the system's front and back-end interfaces. <br /><br />Drupal 6 Themes is an ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 6. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal 6 website, this book is for you. This book is a revised, updated and expanded edition of Drupal 5 Themes, written specifically for Drupal 6. The book will show you techniques and tools to help you improve the look and feel of any Drupal 6-powered website<br /><br />Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. You will find out about tools to make your theme development easier, and also find invaluable information about under-documented elements of the theming system.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Drupal 6 Themes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

About the Reviewers

Alan Doucette is a partner of KOI (koitech.net), a web development company based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA. He is passionate about PHP and open-source software. He is also very active in the web community as the Organizer of JaxPHP (jaxphp.org) and a contributor of Drupal.

Bret Johnson is a Network Analyst in his hometown of Austin, TX. About a year and a half ago, he developed a keen interest in web development and has been a diligent student ever since. After becoming involved with maintaining his team's intranet site, he decided to start developing websites in his spare time. While researching PHP scripts for a certain project, he stumbled across Drupal and has been working with it ever since.

Dave Myburgh started out in computers when entire operating systems ran on a single floppy disk and 640kb of RAM was a lot! He studied to become a molecular biologist, but never lost his passion for computers. Later, he ran a successful computer company for a couple of years in South Africa, before moving to Canada with his wife. He went back to science on his arrival in Canada, and since discovering Drupal two and a half years ago, he has once again started his own company, MybesInformatik. He loves working with Drupal, and is quite handy at theming. Since the birth of his son, his time is split between family and keeping his clients happy.