Drupal Balkan Summit 2011: How Do We Theme Drupal

This was the first Drupal Balkan Summit ever made. It was held in Novi Sad on October 8th and 9th, in 2011.

While there is not too much value in slides, the presentation was about possible options Drupal starter may have when it comes to appearance.

Still it is very debatable when it comes to the question "How to start theming in Drupal?" and that question is about to never be answered. As absolute answer is simply not possible, that doesn't mean that there cannot be some suggestions on current state along with use case scenarios.

That is exactly what about this talk was. Most importantly, it included discussion on best routes to take according to needs, knowledge and current state of themes in Drupal. That field alone is changing at blazing pace.

Transcript

1. How Do We theme Drupal?
2. WTF? Mladen Đurić (a.k.a. MacMladen @ drupal.org, etc) Company? Blue Fish, Novi Sad Background? uh.. Interests? Technology Edge More human, less code More result, less tools
3. What is NOT to be seen here? • Code Snippets • PHP • Geek mumbo-jumbo (sorry ‘bro)
4. What is ABOUT to be seen here? • Drupal Theme system • Theme types • How "scary" is to write a theme? • What is there to theme? • Where to theme • Paid theme • What is in theme • Buzzwords • Eyecandy
5. Theme system • Modules (core) • Theme • Subtheme
6. Theme types • Ready to use theme (used as given) • Ready themes with user modifications (Options, Colorable) • Rich End User theme (Omega) • Base theme • Starter theme • Framework teme • Blank canvas
7. How "scary" is to write a theme? • Not at all!
8. What is there to theme? • Page • Region • Block
9. Where to theme • HTML • CSS • .tpl • template hook • module
10. Paid theme • Template Monster • Symphony Themes • Top Notch Drupal Themes • ThemeShark
11. Buzzwords • HTML 5 • CSS 3 • UX • Accessability
12. Eyecandy • jQuery • Javascript • Transitions • Flash
13. Questions?
14. Thank you! Mladen Đurić mladen@bluefish.rs