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Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook

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Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook

Overview of this book

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a website to fit your needs. The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design, which, when done right, allows developers to customize every aspect of the site. Although it might sound easy to customize the look of your site, it's not a cakewalk to build custom themes that are easy to administer and maintain.Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes that enable Drupal template designers to make full use of Drupal's extensibility and style their site just the way they want it. It is a well-rounded guide, which will allow users looking to theme their Drupal sites to do so by taking full advantage of Drupal's theming system. It covers numerous aspects from creating custom themes to using the powerful CCK, Views, and Panels modules to create rich designs that are easy to administer and maintain.Structured as a collection of recipes to perform a wide variety of tasks, this book will guide readers through most important aspects of Drupal theming. It starts off with recipes dealing with the basics of Drupal's theme system: you will find recipes for solving all your problems with 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 the content that is output on a page. A substantial number of recipes are dedicated to Drupal's template system, which will provide you with a solid foundation in order to override the output of Drupal and contributed modules. Furthermore, as the combination of modules such as CCK, Views, and Panels is so widely prevalent, chapters have been dedicated for each of these modules. With this book, you'll learn to get the most out of Drupal's templating system and its modules to create rich designs for your site.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Creating custom styles with the Panel 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 Panel stylizer module to easily create and apply our own custom styles. We will create a style using the Panel stylizer module and apply it to the mission pane which is part of the frontpage_dashboard we have been working on through this chapter.

Getting ready

Panel stylizer comes with the Panels module and is assumed to have been enabled along with its dependencies. The module exposes a permission named administer panels styles 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 Panel stylizer module enables us to create styles particular to panel regions and panes...