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. <br><br>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.
<br><br>Jean<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">sander-martijn</b> <<a href="mailto:sander@sander-martijn.com">sander@sander-martijn.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well I can give you an answer from someone who knows css html and php<br>quite well and has been doing all of them for a decade, give or take.<br>Theming in and of itself is not that difficult. However it will<br>certainly seem so from the online documentation. I beat my head on the
<br>wall yesterday for hours while reading through page after page of<br>documentation and not even understanding where to start - The html, css<br>and javascript being done and a solid knowledge of php, all i had to<br>know was what I needed to add to the code, how and where and I could
<br>handle the rest. The documentation seems to be bent on the idea that<br>everyone wants to modify an existing theme (and a browse through the<br>theme repository shows that that's exactly what many do) rather than
<br>implement a custom design delivered by a designer. Furthermore most of<br>it speaks in drupal. Lastly, a lot of things are simply not documented<br>or missing important details.<br><br>I finally gave up on the documentation and went to b&n and picked up a
<br>copy of Pro Drupal Development. Within an hour I had a theme working<br>that somewhat resembles the site and have a good idea of what I need to<br>do for the rest. I'm now hacking through the menu structure to get my
<br>css dropdown menus working.<br><br>In short, it's not theming that's difficult, it's finding good<br>information on it that is.<br><br>.sander<br><br>Jean Gazis wrote:<br>> How hard is it for a non-programmer to learn just enough PHP to do
<br>> theming, or is that in itself a stupid question? Compared to say,<br>> learning CSS. (I mean not learning PHP instead of CSS, but I have been<br>> learning CSS so it is a reasonable benchmark.)<br>><br>> Jean
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