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Drupal Theming Course II. - Aarhus - Danmark

Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (GMT+0100)

Aarhus, Denmark

Drupal Theming Course II. - Aarhus - Danmark

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This more advanced course is the second from the series for designers and becoming themers. We will go deep into the Drupal theming layer. At the end of this course you should be able to create a theme from scratch, get complete understanding how drupal generates a page (nodes, regions, blocks, comments, forms, etc...), work with stylesheets and scripts, how to discover themable functions, theme forms, theme contributed modules and learn about the best practices.


If you can't fulfil prerequisitories for this course, you might be interested in the first introductory course.

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


Get 50% off the second course.
After you book this course, you will receive a discount code which will reduce the price by 50%
of your next course (Second course final cost: 1600 Kr -> You pay 4800 Kr for both courses instead of 6400 Kr).


Contact us for further info or if you want us to come to your location.



Course language: English
Capacity: 6 students
Duration: 4 hours
Course style: Lecture
During course you will receive: Lecture notes printed and pdf


Prerequisities:

  • Basic knowledge of Drupal
  • Good knowledge of HTML + CSS
  • Good knowledge of PHP (working with arrays and objects, commands like implode, foreach,...) - you can get this knowledge in our first course
  • Basic knowledge of Drupal theming (you should understand what .info file is and have basic knowledge of theme hooks - you can get this knowledge in our first course)
  • Own laptop

Course outline:

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

When & Where



LYNfabrikken
Vestergade 49B
8000 Aarhus
Denmark

Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (GMT+0100)


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Atomic Ant limited



Atomic Ant limited is a creative outfit based in London and Prague specializing in building web experiences the way they should be built.

We are working with Drupal for over 5 years now and provide training and other Drupal services.