By DanielMD on

Hi does anyone have good links for drupal theme development and or customization?

I have read the manual but it is hard to read, and "impossible" to understand, drupal sound great, but why is theming so hard on drupal and so easy on toehr system?

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kzeng’s picture

kzeng commented

I wrote a simple and pragmatic theme tutorial in Chinese. I will translate it into English soon.

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DanielMD’s picture

DanielMD commented

I would appreciate you send me email with link wend you are done (danielmd3000 [at\] yahoo [dot\] com ) Thanks

clarknova’s picture

clarknova commented

Why don't you publish it in Chinese? I'm sure it will be more easy to understand even for people who don't know Chinese, than the current manual. :)

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DanielMD commented

Could not agree more :-) ... this should be a priority for drupal ppl, if they want to have good themes.

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soupp commented

Guys,

The simplies way is to take any ready theme and tweak it. IT IS SIMPLE. Just choose layout is already in repository and make your work around.

It will take 10 munutes to ... unlimited :) to make your own.

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Marc Bijl’s picture

Marc Bijl commented

Basic information can be found here:
- http://drupal.org/node/257

There has been a discussion going on not too long ago about themeing:
- http://drupal.org/node/61570
- http://drupal.org/node/61570#comment-117194

Another interesting topic (may be - I haven't read all of it), might be this one:
- http://drupal.org/node/34324

And then there's always the option to search:
- http://drupal.org/search/node/create+theme
- http://www.google.com/search?q=create+drupal+theme

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styro commented

what is difficult to understand about it?

Do you have any specific ideas about how to improve it?

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clarknova commented

I'll tell ya what I think.

After struggling for a couple of weeks with phptemplate and being finally able to tweak my site's looks and feel that I acutally have some control over it, I think the manual should be something less abstract. It must be, I assume, very easy to understand for someone who has php knowledge right now. But for someone who has been working with mere html and css, it's kind of confusing to say the least.

I know, it maybe is our problem for not having learnt any real programming languages, but like I said, this is my opinion and I think there are a couple of people on the same boat. You see, for us designers, we need something that looks familair to what we have been doing for some time. "Use this code for putting your header where you want it". That wouldn't be bad. "Use this for printing the content of your articles or blog posts". Maybe I'm a bit slow, but it took me quite some time to figure out what a "node" is. And yes, when I feel more comfortable with this I will try to contribute something for helping other newcomers like me.

But first, can you tell me how do I separate the elements(day, month, etc.) of $date?

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Stefanos Karagos commented

i totaly agree!
listen to clarknova...

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sepeck commented

ignore references to the theme editor.
understand that it is written for 4.6 and not 4.7
but it should hopefully get you closer to understanding some stuff.
http://support.bryght.com/articles/converting-css-html-design-phptemplat...

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