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Building themes the traditional way

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Building themes the traditional way

Now we're going to dip our toes into a topic that everyone's eager to learn, but that's incredibly complicated. That is Drupal theme design. At its fullest, it involves PHP and JavaScript programming, CSS code, and knowledge of Drupal's API or Application Programming Interface. This video can only barely scratch the surface. I'll get you started by showing you how to get set up to create a new theme and then I'll show you some resources to learn the rest. We'll start with something called a base theme and I'll demonstrate what that is by going to Appearance. Drupal 7 includes a base theme called Stark. You see that down at the bottom in the Disabled Themes. I'll Enable it and set it as the default, just so that you can see what it is and you can see the changes that we make. However, it's going to be very different from the themes that you're used to. it has no styling information whatsoever. It's only a very basic theme that you then add your own styling to. So I click Enable and set…

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