Making Drupal Dance: Techniques for Non-obvious Theme Manipulations

Too often, we see sites that "look like a Drupal website". To me, that's an obvious design FAIL. If you've ever felt restricted by Drupal's default rendering of its content and HTML, this is a must-attend session.

We'll discuss techniques for Themers and Designers to break out of Drupal's default markup by using the tools already available to us. No kittens will be harmed.

Agenda:
- Breaking up the monolithic menu block to allow any IA navigation style.
- The CCK Display tab: what the heck does this “exclude” checkbox do?
- Tricksy PHP to move pieces of content from the main column to a sidebar (or anywhere on the page)

Pre-requisites:
This isn't a beginner's theming section. You should know about:
- THEME_preprocess_HOOK() functions
- theme override functions
- basic CCK field configuration
- basic Views 2 configuration

Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/JohnAlbin/making-drupal-dance-techniques-for-n...