Building Advanced Drupal Themes from a Web Designer/Developer Perspective

Track: 
Design and UX
Experience: 
Intermediate

Learn how to take the Drupal theme building to the next level. Drupal is a robust, full-featured web content management system that powers more than 10,000 of the top one million sites on the web today. See how you can go beyond basic theme files, altering the Drupal front end using PHP. Learning "Theme Hooks" as they are called in Drupal is the path to deeper theme customization. In this session, you'll grasp what it means to be a Web Designer in today's world and how to design beyond theme templates.

Come see how the new Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 helps provide a better work flow when building simple or advanced themes for Drupal.

Intended audience: 

Web designers/Developers

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How do I integrate my CMS into my web workflow?
Question 2: 
Give specific examples of robust Drupal websites running today, and examples of recent work
Question 3: 
How does Dreamweaver CS5 work with Drupal?
Question 4: 
Discussion around the % of web design work done in Drupal today.
Question 5: 
How do you see the theming work you do in Drupal evolving in the next 1-2 years?
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Some points about this session

This will be a mashup of two talks I presented at SxSW & Adobe MAX 2010.

- Learn what skills, languages, and duties define a Web Designer today (in a Web CMS world like Drupal or Wordpress).

- Be that shiny gear in the system; be that resource that keeps getting called back.

- Go beyond basic Drupal theme templates.

- Extra: How Adobe Dreamweaver has not abandoned you.

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