Drupal 7 Ninja Theming

Presentation about Drupal's Omega 2 base theme and Delta module given for the Italian Alpine Drupalcamp 2011

Transcript

1. Drupal 7 Ninja Theming
   How Context + Delta + Omega will blow your old
   themes up
   

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2. Claudio Beatrice
   Developer
   @omissis twitter
   http://silent-voice.org blog
   http://agavee.com team
   Co-founder of the ‘Drupal Italia’ Association
   A quick introduction
   Skylogic S.P.A. - Turin (IT)
   Satellite telecommunications
   C, PHP, Drupal, Java, Javascript, MySQL, LDAP
   Go On Media - Paris (FR)
   Internet Media
   PHP, Zend, Javascript, HTML, CSS
   Agavee - Somewhere in Northern Italy :)
   Web Development
   PHP, Drupal, Symfony, Javascript, jQuery
   

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3. and some credits
   Jake Strawn
   Developer, Themer, Designer
   twitter @himerus
   email jake.strawn@himerus.com
   blog http://himerus.com
   Sebastian Siemssen
   Developer
   twitter @thefubhy
   

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4. Alright then, what makes
   Omega so special?
   

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5. It sits on the
   shoulders of giants
   It’s an evolved implementation
   of the ninesixty Drupal
   theme which, in turn, is based
   upon the 960 grid system
   by Nathan Smith
   It gets inspiration (and features)
   from the most appreciated Drupal
   themes such as Acquia Marina,
   Zen, Fusion and Studio
   

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6. Down with the gridness
   960gs helps you to save time and to reduce
   frustration by streamlining your front-end
   development and insuring (what Yahoo
   determines as) A-grade browsers compatibility
   http://sonspring.com/journal/960-grid-system
   

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7. Drupal (well, the guy who developed
   ninesixty) brought 960gs even further by
   adding some more functionalities to the
   framework such as:
   • push & pull classes (backported to 960gs)
   • ns() function for contextual widths of grid
   elements
   • grid overlay and debugging tools
   • RTL language support
   All these features are available in Omega
   Down with the gridness
   

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8. 960gs features
   • 12, 16, 24, 32 column options
   • Each zone has its own container options, which allows
   for mixed layouts
   • no need to use ns() function in most situations
   • template_preprocess_page() handles this based on theme
   settings
   • theme-settings.php gives extensive theme settings to base
   theme & all sub themes based on Omega
   • content first (.push & .pull) options
   A Saucerful of inspirations
   

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9. A Saucerful of inspirations
   Non-960gs features
   • Custom page titles
   • Alternate settings for and other pages
   • Custom separator
   • Custom breadcrumbs
   • On/off toggle for breadcrumbs
   • Custom separator
   • Toggle “home” link in breadcrumb
   • Append current page to end of breadcrumb
   • Mission statements
   • Choose to display on only or all pages
   

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10. Hey! But there’s moar!
    • Highly customizable theme settings that let
    you configure your layout in a few clicks
    • XHTML and HTML5 subthemes
    • Delta and Context modules give you the
    ability to create separated theme
    configurations and use them depending on
    the conditions of your choice with no LOC
    • Drush integration lets you spawn new
    subthemes and export/revert their
    configuration in a matter of seconds
    

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11. Let’s take a quick tour
    

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18. Don’t call him baby
    • Easily extendable: cleanly integrate custom
    grids is a matter of a few LOC
    • Well documented: it has a dedicated website
    with plenty of resources and videos
    • Fast development pace
    • Growing community
    

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19. Ok ok, you got me. Ain’t it a
    little bit too fat tho?
    ‘Course not! :) But let’s pretend it
    is so I am allowed to introduce
    the upcoming version...
    

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20. Omega 3
    it’s good for your heart
    • Segmentation of Alpha & Omega
    • this will allow users to enable core functionalities without
    the added weight of some advanced features
    • Zone/Region Flexibility
    • ability to freely reassign zones and regions through the
    interface (Omega UI)
    • branding zone configurable through UI, less region--
    branding-tpl.php tweaking
    • Region Ordering improvements
    • static & dynamic zones will be both allowed to be ordered
    • finer control on how zones appear and are rendered
    (with all the consequences on SEO)
    • Performance Enhancements
    • Preprocess/process, Css, Theme settings
    • Optional CSS Loading
    

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21. • Responsive Grids
    • Adaptive layouts through customizable
    @media queries or javascript as fallback (IE—)
    • Good number of tweaks available such as
    optional grid styles and viewport/scale settings
    • Default layouts: mobile (region stacked),
    narrow (720px), normal (960px), wide
    (1200px)
    Omega 3
    it’s good for your heart
    

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22. You oughta watch the entire video: http://bit.ly/e4zAt0
    Omega 3
    it’s good for your heart
    

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23. References
    http://960.gs
    http://himerus.com
    http://developmentgeeks.com
    http://omega.developmentgeeks.com
    http://drupal.org/project/omega
    http://groups.drupal.org/omega-framework
    http://silent-voice.org
    

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24. Thank you for watching!
    

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25. One last thing...™
    

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26. The DrupalCon London
    • 22 - 25 August
    • Fairfield Halls,
    Croydon
    • 1500+ expected
    attendees
    • Loads of awesome
    sessions, Jack
    Strawn’s included!
    • Fish and chips! :)))
    

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