Kelly Tanguay wrote:

First of all, I'd like to mention how helpful this support list has been. I don't know how I could have gotten started with Drupal without it!

I'm just getting started with creating my own themes. I feel like I understand the structure of creating a Drupal 6 theme using CSS and template files, and I am also pretty familiar with Photoshop though I haven't worked much cutting up PSDs to use on a website. I was wondering if there were any good tutorials, resources, or books that show how to convert a PSD file into a Drupal 6 theme from beginning to end. Any help at all would be appreciated!

-Kelly

My advice (as someone else who is just starting with drupal), is have a look at the Zen theme. It looks completely plain out of the box, but is designed to make it as easy as possible to create your own themes based on it. All the relevant files are well commented so you can see where to make changes. I have done 2 site themes based on this; one is at www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality ; the other is still on a test server at http://base.tikvanet.org:8001/potatopark .

Both have involved some small changes to the php template file (mainly just moving code from one place to another on the page), but you don't even need to do this if you are happy with zen's basic layout.

Also, firebug (a firefox extension) is your friend. If there is something on the page you are not happy with, just click on it using firebug and you will be able to work out what css rules to use to change that page element based on the class definitions in the html source.

andy