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Details
You will learn techniques and best practices for configuring a flexible and extendable layout for your site, then you'll learn how to get more control over the look and feel by creating a custom theme in Drupal.
By the end of the training you will be able to:- Create custom layouts for landing pages on your site.
- Make content appear dynamically based on where you are in the site structure.
- Change the look of sections on your site.
- Create a custom theme in Drupal. Best practices for sustainable theming.
Delivery Methods
Leading Training is focusing on providing virtual training courses for the foreseeable future and will only consider in-person and classroom training on request, with a required minimum group size of six delegates. We remain committed to offering training that is fast, focused and effective.
Audience
Web designers using Drupal.Pre-Requisites
Required: Drupal Administration Familiarity with HTML and CSS is required. PHP is not required.Course Outline / Curriculum
- Important Drupal Theming Concepts
- Preparing a site for theming
- Enabling themes and theme settings
- Translating a design into a Drupal theme
- Helpful browser extensions for Drupal theming
- Creating the .info file and adding CSS
- Customizing the page template file
- Adding regions to the page template
- Customizing the node template
- Creating dynamic templates for specific node types
- Using the theme developer module
- Adding JavaScript to a theme
- Tour of popular page template variables
- Adding a screenshot to your theme
- Conclusion to Theming Basics