Drupal Theming

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

Like everything in Drupal, there is a slight learning curve when you make the leap to using Panels for your Drupal sitebuilding. This article aims to give you a brief and broad introduction to theming practices used when using Panels and its popular helper modules as your main site-building tools.

There are a lot of methods available for testing a Drupal site's accessibility. I will go through the methods I use from a high level to give a basic introduction into testing for a Drupal web site's accessibility.

It is easy to be overwhelmed with all of the newest front-end tools out there. Below are nine tools and techniques that the themer crew at PreviousNext are using to make our lives easier.

The bread and butter work for a themer is printing output on pages. In Drupal 7 there are many ways to achieve this goal: tpl files, Display Suite, theme functions, render arrays, etc. Yet often the easiest way to get some data on a page is via a preprocess function printing a variable into a tpl file.

SASS stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets, and are a powerful way to streamline your Drupal theme's CSS. Based on CSS, the learning curve is not too steep for a seasoned front-end developer. In this post, you'll get an introduction to the basics of SASS and how to get your development environment up and running.

Using Zen 5.x as a base theme for DrupalCon Sydney's website introduced me to a new approach to theming that other Drupal themers may find useful. The theme makes responsive Drupal layouts easier by combining the old Zen sidebar magic with Sass and Compass by way of Zen Grids. You can further improve your theming process with new functionality in Sass 3.2.

Are you a designer or themer with limited understanding of jQuery, javascript programming and / or Drupal theming? This session is for you. 

You may have heard about Responsive Design and perhaps even implemented it. Take the next step with Drupal and The Omega theme...