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[Jean Gazis]

Maybe I will get that book, then. Everyone recommends it, but I had the
impression that it was only for people who want to really develop stuff,
like actual modules.

And I have to say, having read just a couple of tech how-to books, I don't
know how people can stand it - good writers seem to be in very short supply
in the tech handbook genre.

Jean

On 8/15/07, sander-martijn <sander at sander-martijn.com> wrote:
>
> Well I can give you an answer from someone who knows css html and php
> quite well and has been doing all of them for a decade, give or take.
> Theming in and of itself is not that difficult.  However it will
> certainly seem so from the online documentation.  I beat my head on the
> wall yesterday for hours while reading through page after page of
> documentation and not even understanding where to start - The html, css
> and javascript being done and a solid knowledge of php, all i had to
> know was what I needed to add to the code, how and where and I could
> handle the rest.  The documentation seems to be bent on the idea that
> everyone wants to modify an existing theme (and a browse through the
> theme repository shows that that's exactly what many do) rather than
> implement a custom design delivered by a designer.  Furthermore most of
> it speaks in drupal.  Lastly, a lot of things are simply not documented
> or missing important details.
>
> I finally gave up on the documentation and went to b&n and picked up a
> copy of Pro Drupal Development.  Within an hour I had a theme working
> that somewhat resembles the site and have a good idea of what I need to
> do for the rest.  I'm now hacking through the menu structure to get my
> css dropdown menus working.
>
> In short, it's not theming that's difficult, it's finding good
> information on it that is.
>
> .sander
>
> Jean Gazis wrote:
> > How hard is it for a non-programmer to learn just enough PHP to do
> > theming, or is that in itself a stupid question? Compared to say,
> > learning CSS. (I mean not learning PHP instead of CSS, but I have been
> > learning CSS so it is a reasonable benchmark.)
> >
> > Jean
>
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Jean Gazis
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