Making Drupal Dance: Techniques for Non-obvious Theme Manipulations + Slides + Video
Too often, we see sites that “look like a Drupal website”. To me, that’s an obvious design FAIL. If you’ve ever felt restricted by Drupal’s default rendering of its content and HTML, this is a must-attend session.
We’ll discuss techniques for Themers and Designers to break out of Drupal’s default markup by using the tools already available to us. No kittens will be harmed.
Video
Slides
Slides are now available! I’ve posted them to SlideShare.net along with the code I used during the presentation.
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Agenda
- Breaking up the monolithic menu block to allow any IA navigation style.
- The CCK Display tab: what the heck does this “exclude” checkbox do?
- Tricksy PHP to move pieces of content from the main column to a sidebar (or anywhere on the page)
Drupal forms! They’re accessible, but they're not very attractive. Just like that last person sitting at the bar during “last call”.Stupid Views tricks: the field config button
Goals
Drupal’s limits are only perceptual. With some good tips, you’ll realize there is no spoon; You can do anything within Drupal.
Pre-requisites
This isn’t a beginner’s theming section. You should know about:
- THEME_preprocess_HOOK() functions
- theme override functions
- basic CCK field configuration
- basic Views 2 configuration
FYI, I’ll be presenting this session remotely from Taiwan.