The Path to Theming Mastery

Rockstar in the Making

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1. Rockstar in the Making The Path to Theming Mastery
2. Shawn Gregg Web Production Group Sony Music Entertainment Computer - 1998 Web - 2000 Drupal - 2006
3. “Browsers are the most hostile software development environment imaginable” Douglas Crockford
4. Is everyone happy? Screen Resolutions Operating Systems Rendering Engines Browser Versions Usability / Accessibility Mobile
5. “We are the awesomesauce that makes it all work.” Morton DK
6. Pressure?
7. The Right Stuff Passionate Pay attention to detail Have a positive attitude Stay informed Curious Responsible
8. “It takes 10,000 hours to become proficient at any trade” Malcolm Gladwell
9. Rock Solid Fundamentals Structure Presentation Behavior Performance
10. Structure (HTML/XHTML) Write clean meaningful markup Inoculate against divitis RTFM (Read the W3C spec) Understand microdata and microformats
11. Rockstar Tips W3C (x)HTML Validators www.schema.org (microdata) DOM Monster (bookmarklet)
12. Presentation (CSS) Know thy declarations & selectors Understand Specificity RTFM (Read the W3C spec) Explore abstraction layers @font-face / responsive / frameworks
13. Rockstar Tips W3C CSS Validator @font-face generator (shalo.us/fsg) Quickly test fallback fonts (ffffallback.com) Firebug / Chrome dev tools LiveReload (livereload.com)
14. Behavior (JavaScript) Write unobtrusive code (rock jQuery) Use efficient selectors Learn to debug JavaScript Use JSLint (jslint.com)
15. Rock the Theme Layer Don’t forget the fundamentals Understand PHP Template Understand the admin interface Do logic in template.php Use tpl files Keep it simple
16. Rockstar Tips Awesome Theming Section (Jacine Luisi)
17. Rockstar Tips
18. Performance Code Quality (php/front-end) Image Optimization & Sprites External CSS/JS Combine and Minify Page Speed / Yslow
19. “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?” Brian Kernighan
20. Keep it simple.
21. Thank You Contact shawn@shalosophy.com Twitter @shalosophy Feedback shalo.us/f1 Questions?