Drupal 7 Layout and Theming - Washington D.C. & Online

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About this course

In this two day course you'll learn a variety of approaches to making dynamic layouts in Drupal, and how to choose the right approach for your site. You will learn techniques and best practices for configuring a flexible and extendable layout for your site, then you'll learn how to get more control over the look and feel by creating a custom theme in Drupal.

By the end of the course, you'll know how to save yourself time in making easy to configure, responsive and smart layouts. You will also understand best practices in making your site secure and fast, and easy to maintain.

Event details

During this in-depth introduction to front end development with Drupal 7, you'll learn how to develop custom themes that format content for both desktop and mobile devices (responsive design). You'll learn how to deploy popular modules to configure the output on your site with Context, saving you hours in theming time. You will also learn how to add interactivity to your site by using jQuery widgets.

Course Prerequisites

  • Prior experience in site building with Drupal.
  • A combination of Acquia's Drupal 7 in a Day, and Drupal 7 Site Building two day course would be ideal preparation.
  • Drupal related site configuration.
  • Content creation and maintenance.
  • Site building.
  • HTML and CSS skills are essential.
  • Familiarity with both JavaScript and PHP would be helpful but not necessary.

Course Objectives

  • Articulate theming concepts and terms.
  • Make a basic custom theme from scratch.
  • Make a sub-themes of from two popular base theme systems.
  • Understand inheritance and overriding templates.
  • Manipulate mark-up at the theme layer.
  • Employ best practices for creating sustainable and secure themes.
  • Tune your site for the best front end performance.
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