New Video Class: Drupal 7 Layout and Theming

This week’s new video class is “Drupal 7 Layout and Theming“.

This massive new class is 56 videos long and covers everything you need to know when starting to design Drupal sites.

This class was created in partnership with Acquia, and you’ll learn all the best practices from Drupal’s top company. You’ll learn a variety of approaches to make dynamic layouts in Drupal, and how to choose the right approach for your site. You’ll also learn how to get more control over the look and feel by creating a custom theme in Drupal.

By the end of the class, you’ll know how to create and configure Drupal sites that are responsive and beautiful.

Outline of the Drupal 7 Layout and Theming Class

Introduction

Welcome
What You Need
Your Learning Environment
Your Site for This Class

Fundamentals

Drupal Theming Fundamentals
Types of Themes
Finding and Evaluating Themes
Installing New Themes
Making a Simple Theme
Adding Screenshots
Declaring Regions
Adding Features to Your Theme
Adding CSS
Adding Javascript
Adding CSS and Images
Anatomy of a Drupal Page

Customizing

Customizing Your Theme
Coding Standards
Template File Overrides
Overriding the Core node.tpl.php
Theme Developer Module
Overrides by ID and Content Type
Adding Custom Regions
Overriding the Maintenance Page
Basic Structures in PHP
Conditional Statements
Overriding Theme Functions
Adding a Variable Introduction to Arrays

Subthemes

Base Themes and Subtheming
Best Practices for Subtheming
Using a Zen Subtheme
Project Pages on Drupal.org
Importing a Distribution
Creating a Zen Subtheme
Theme Settings
Generating Test Content
Creating Custom CSS Files
Markup and Styles
Custom Homepage Layout
Challenging Designs
Adapting CSS for a Design

Responsive

Introduction to Responsive Drupal
Responsive Menus Module
Responsive Views
Responsive Slideshows
Responsive Images
Responsive Videos

Configuration

Layout via Configuration
Site Building Tips
Contributed Modules for Layout
Display Suite
Panels and Custom Layouts
Context
Final Exercise

How to Take the Drupal 7 Layout and Theming Class

If you’re an OSTraining member, you can click here to take the Drupal 7 Layout and Theming Class.

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Steve Burge

Steve is the founder of OSTraining. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve's work straddles the line between teaching and web development.
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Hey Jason, that is a very old class (2013) for Drupal 7. Here's the link: https://ostraining.com/courses/how-to-use-the-rules-module-in-drupal/ sorry about that.

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Anthony

8 years ago

We need this class for Drupal 8. I need to know how to create a custom theme for Drupal 8 but all the videos out there are garbage compared to how you guys teach. Please tell me this is down the pipeline and very close to completion?

steve

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Thanks for the kind words, Anthony.
This is definitely on our radar. The main obstacle is that Panels and most of the main theme frameworks are not ready for D8 yet. But they, and our training, should be available shortly.