Create new themes for your Drupal 6 site with clean layout and powerful CSS styling

* Learn to create new Drupal 6 themes
* No experience of Drupal theming required
* Techniques and tools for creating and modifying themes
* A complete guide to the system's themable elements
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In Detail

Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System (CMS). Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

Drupal employs a specialized templating system and supports themes, which allow you to change the look and feel of the system's front and back-end interfaces.

Drupal 6 Themes is an ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 6. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal 6 website, this book is for you. This book is a revised, updated and expanded edition of Drupal 5 Themes, written specifically for Drupal 6. The book will show you techniques and tools to help you improve the look and feel of any Drupal 6-powered website

Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. You will find out about tools to make your theme development easier, and also find invaluable information about under-documented elements of the theming system.

What you will learn from this book

* Learn about the Drupal 6 Theming Architecture
* Find and install new themes
* Get the most from Drupal's theme configuration system
* Create a new theme from scratch
* Master PHPTemplate
* Modify the default templates and styles
* Override the default templates with your own
* Create dynamic styling which responds to the content or the user
* Discover tools that make theming easier and more efficient