By rastarr on

Hi There,

I've been looking through the templating stuff but am still very confused on where to start. Maybe because I'm a visual type of person.

anyway, I was wondering wether anyone had put together a step by step screen shot presentation of how a template is constructed for Drupal, from the concept stage of the PSD design to displaying it inside a working Drupal installation?

Coming from Joomla, there's a number of these available and they've probably advanced the development of that platform. I've seen many wonderful template's in Drupal sites. I'm sure this would be of great benefit to other's that are struggling, as I am.

Cheers
Martin

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Check this: http://www.drupaldojo.com/topic/themes

There is this screencast:
http://www.drupaldojo.com/lesson/lightning-lesson-dmitrig01-turns-psd-in...

although I don't see a part 2.

no_more’s picture

no_more commented

I'm completely new to this drupal stuff. I am not like those who sits infront of computer and codes something. I like the idea of templates since it really helps my kinda people to use the templates in order to achive better user interface for our websites. it would be so kind of you if you can help me I could not find the exact link where i can download the "so-called" lovely templates. What after downloads? how do i use it? I also downloaded some themes but dunno how to use it?
Thank you for having me.

Cheers
@n!$

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

To use a Drupal theme, upload it to the /sites/all/themes directory of your Drupal site and then enable it and make it your default theme in your site's /admin/build/themes page.

itzme’s picture

itzme commented

well explained. awesome :)

rastarr’s picture

rastarr commented

Thanks for the links, cog.rusty.

I must say the 'lightning lesson' was an absolute terrible watch unfortunately. I wouldn't recommend anyone watch it if they're a newbie to Drupal theming due to poor color, blocky/chunky screencast updates making it very difficult to understand what the guy was trying to achieve, no sound as everything was trying to be explained via a chunky-scrolling IRC chat session.

I certainly think the author meant well in recording the session for others however I personally found it unwatchable and impossible to understand. I'll have a look at the others. Still seems like any example I find only covers a fraction of the topic.

kulfi’s picture

kulfi commented

I found it useful to use an existing theme as a starting point (zen, bare bones) and then build the theme out. This chapter from the pro drupal book may be of interest too: http://www.apress.com/book/supplementDownload.html?bID=10258&sID=4237

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

While not a complete from PSD, it does give you an intermediate view of converting an html page layout to Drupal template.

http://www.blkmtn.org/Quick-and-dirty-OSWD-theme-to-Drupal

-Steven Peck
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