A Drupal Theming Primer

Making a drupal theme is fundamentally taking a plain website and giving it a certain look and feel.
Drupal uses what they call themes to regulate the way your site is revealed to the end user. It does this through css and template files which are fundamentally traditional html files with php placeholders. Most people get beleaguered by the entire theming thing but, it actually isn't anything more that just understanding simple html and a little css. You will have a theme folder where all your changes should be made. Never change any central files. This allows drupal to do its job and pass it to your theme folder where it will magically adjust the output to what you have incorporated in your theme.
For new themers its easiest to take a glimpse at the customary drupal themes and reverse engineer them. Open up zen and garland and check out the file structure, most have fundamentally the same files. Once you understand this then open up the files independently. Study each one, you will notice its just html and a little php.
With a little work you will begin being capable of doing thes themes on your own so jump right in, as long as you aren't messing with the primary files you won't lastingly hurt anything.

By: Jason Mcdonald

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