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.