Abstract:
One of the core jobs of any Drupal themer is to make nodes look sweet. In this session we'll look at the Drupal node, the $node variable (and all it contains) and show you how to do fully custom node layouts. (Hint...step 1 is to forget about that silly $content variable)
This is going to be a demo walkthrough session (ie. live demo, no keynote/powerpoint stuff) on how to theme a drupal node.tpl.php file along with any other node-custom.tpl.php templates that Drupal makes available. We'll look at how to find the contents of the $node variable, how to print those contents where and how you want, thereby creating a fully custom node layout with minimal PHP skills.