Upcoming courses

Drupal Theming Course I. - Aarhus - Danmark

http://aa-drupal-course-theming-02.eventbrite.com/

Drupal Theming Course II. - Aarhus - Danmark

http://aa-drupal-course-theming-03.eventbrite.com/

This course goes deep into the drupal theme rendering process from the very begining. At the end of this course you should be able to create a theme from scratch, understand how drupal generates the page (nodes, regions, blocks, comments, etc...), work with stylesheets and scripts, theme forms and much more. You should become a theming rockstar.

If you think this might be too advanced for you, we are preparing a course focused on beginners and theming basics. Contact us for further info or subscribe to our events.

29th April Training has been moved to May (no dates specified yet)

Course language: English
Limit: 4 students
Duration: 8 hours + 1 hour lunch

Prerequisities:

• Basic knowledge of Drupal
• Good knowledge of HTML + CSS
• Basic knowledge - experience with scripting languages - PHP, etc...
• Own laptop

Course outline:

1. Quick Introduction to Drupal 6
2. Drupal theme layer
3. Theming engines, PHPTemplate
4. Anatomy of a theme
   1. .info file
   2. Working with stylesheets
   3. Working with scripts
   4. Theme overrides
      1. suggestions
      2. template (.tpl.php) files
      3. theme_ functions
      4. preprocess hook
      5. special cases
         1. theming undeclared
         2. hook_theme
   5. custom theme settings - theme-settings.php
5. Theming contrib modules
6. Theming Forms
7. Sub-theming
8. Useful Tips, Secure Theming , Best practices - Bonus
9. Tools
10. Resources

About the mentor:

Marek Sotak

the co-founder of atomic ant, is a web developer, designer, speaker and Drupal evangelist based currently in Aarhus-Denmark. He has more than 7 years of experience creating customised web applications for clients. His main focuses are usability, user experience, building a solid, flexible and extensible frameworks and sharing his knowledge.

Marek has been working with Drupal for over 4 years (Drupal.org profile) and has been speaking on several DrupalCamps (Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Bratislava) and DrupalCon in Szezged. He also organised DrupalCamp Prague in 2009 and Prague's monthly meet-up's. Recently he helped Aarhus Drupal community to host and organise another meet-up which was a success. He is also the creator of popular Drupal admin theme RootCandy and also committed several D6 + D7 core and contrib modules patches.