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Drupal 6 Themes by Ric Shreeves on Packt Publishing is a great resource for newbie Drupal themers. Themers who are not from a programming background will find it especially useful since it starts with the basics and builds up to more complex yet powerful techniques such as hook_form_alter(). read more

I recently searched on Themebot for a great contributed Drupal flexible-width theme for DrupalSouth.net.nz and found Light Fantastic. Joshua Brauer created the awesome Light Fantastic theme as part of the Google Summer of Code 2007. Screenshot of Light Fantastic on DrupalSouth.net.nz: See a larger image.

A short, quick and easy tip for views theming and customization. To customize the text or the destination path/url of a 'view more' link in Views. Add this to template.php in your phptemplate theme and add cases. <?php/** * Override theme_views_more() to set custom link texts and destinations. * @param $path String *   The destination of the more link. */function _phptemplate_views_more($path) {  $text = 'more';  switch ($path) {    case 'foo/bar':      $text = 'doh';      break;  }  return "<div class='more-link'>" . l(t($text), $path) . "</div>";}?>

Drupalcon Boston sessions were all recorded on video and have been made available on archive.org, thanks to numerous drupal community members and other Drupal resources. (This is quite out of date now, but better late than never.) Here are the videos from my talk on Scalable Theming: Theming for 100s of node types, CCK fields, and views:

Have you ever wondered what a "themer" actually does? How are they different to a designer and a developer? In it's simplest sense a themere takes a flat static image, the design, provided by the designer, and a mostly-functional but ugly site, provided by a developer, and makes the ugly site look pretty like the designer wants it. This timelapse by Matthew Buchanan of the theming of nzmusicmonth.co.nz sums up that process: read more

ThemesWiki.org is a new website designed
to provide users with comprehensive, free guides for designing Web Themes and
Templates. This site intends to ease the web design process by providing tutorials
for a large number of systems at a common location.

It
is often difficult to find a resource that is focused on providing quality,
relevant and free information for designing themes and templates; specifically
one that covers a wide range of applications. This is where ThemesWiki.org
intends to step in. Launched initially with tutorials covering over 20 Content
Management Systems, ThemesWiki.org is expected to grow into an exhaustive
resource for the theming community, with users generating most of the content.

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