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Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook

By : Karthik Kumar
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Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook

By: Karthik Kumar

Overview of this book

<p>The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design which, when employed correctly, allows developers to literally handcraft every aspect of a site, so that it looks and performs exactly how they want it to. While it is reasonably straightforward to download a Drupal theme and install it, doing anything beyond that is not. Using custom themes requires familiarity and experience with Drupal's theming system, especially if you want to easily administer and maintain your themes.</p> <p>Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes that enable Drupal template designers to make full use of its extensibility and style their site just the way they want it. It is a well-rounded guide which will allow users to take full advantage of Drupal's theming system.</p> <p>This cookbook starts with recipes which address the basics of Drupal's theme system, including regions and blocks. It then moves on to advanced topics such as creating a custom theme and using it to modify the layout and style of content. With the introduction of the Field API and the growing importance of Views and Panels in Drupal 7, chapters have been dedicated to each feature. You will also learn many techniques for dealing with Drupal&rsquo;s templating system, which will allow you create themes which surpass even the existing Drupal and contributed modules.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7 Theming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating custom styles with the Stylizer module


While we learned how to apply styles to panel regions and panes earlier in this chapter, this recipe will outline how we can utilize the Stylizer module to easily create and apply our own custom styles. We will create a style using Stylizer and apply it to the Slogan pane which is part of the Frontpage dashboard panel we have been working on thus far in this chapter.

Getting ready

Stylizer comes with the Chaos tools group of modules and is assumed to have been enabled along with its dependencies, chief among which is the Color module. The module exposes a permission named Use the Stylizer UI which is required to add and manage our custom styles.

While we will be using the Frontpage dashboard panel created earlier in this chapter as an example panel to implement our styles, it is not a prerequisite. This recipe can be easily adapted to work with any available pane.

How to do it...

The Stylizer module enables us to create styles particular to panel...