On 8/15/07, sander-martijn <sander@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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