How to chose best base theme for your design and work with it.

Track: 
Theming
Experience: 
Beginner

Where to find a theme. Looking at the statistics of the theme to see how it’s being maintained by the community. Writing .info files.
How to organize your files and folders for your themes. Sub-theming. Talking about advantages of 960 theme and design. Using Devel and Code Review module to help with coding standards. Talk about CSS and JQuery. How page.tpl works as your “skeleton” for all the pages on the site. Creating node.tpl to fit your designs. Incorporating your HTML into Drupal.

Intended audience: 

Web developers and designers that want to know how to implement existing Drupal themes using there designs.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
What are the hottest, cleanest existing themes to implement for your designs?
Question 2: 
How to structure your Drupal theme?
Question 3: 
What are the advantages of using 960 theme?
Question 4: 
How to create PHP templates from your HTML pages?
Question 5: 
How to Sub-theme existing Drupal theme?
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