What exactly was accomplished?
- Gone thru chapters 8 to 10 of "Drupal 7" by David Mercer
- Views
- Drupal Theming
- Multimedia
- Panels
- Theming Nodes
- Theming Pages
- Theming Views
- Video podcasts videos from Drupal School, Drupal Video, Lullabot, and Lynda.com
- Drupal Video: Drupal 7 Alpha Preview
- Drupal Video: A Second Look at Drupal 7 Alpha
- Lullabot: Drupal 7
- Drupal Videos: Drupal 6 Theme Basics
- Drupal School: Theming with Zen
- Drupal School: Getting Started with Zen
- Drupal Videos: Custom Drupal Homepages
- Lynda.com: Drupal Essential Training
- Install/activated the following modules:
- Field UI
- CCK
- Node Reference
- Advanced Help
- Footermap
- Views, Views Exporter, and Views UI
- Install / enabled the following themes:
- o Point
- Austin
- Basic
- Danland
- Fusion
- Sky
- Created a "Meet the Team" data block using custom fields and Views
- Created a custom content type (Article Review) with a field that is a Node Reference
- Created a sub-theme under the Zen theme
Rounded corners tab style menu (active tab is white) - Started working on a new theme based on the Danland theme
Changed site name font and floated the site slogan to the right
Issues
No real issues. The only thing I found is that some of the contributed modules and themes (especially the themes) are not compatible with Drupal 7 yet it is showing up in the search result when asked to filter only Drupal 7 items.
Experience So Far
From what I have seen so far, Drupal is flexible and complex at the same time. It's flexible because you can do pretty much anything you need to either with the help of modules or custom coding or theming. It is complex because there are so many pieces to the system and many ways to do achieve the same objectives. For example, to remove the RSS feed icon of the header, I could set display to none in the CSS or I could comment the code out of the page template (page.tpl.php). Now, commenting out of the page template is more efficient because the server doesn't have to process that piece of code. Hence, the final HTML going to the browser is smaller.
For a newbie, a browser based HTML / CSS / JavaScript developer tool like Firebug (a Firefox add-on) is super helpful when it comes to theming. Tools like this let you see exactly which CSS classes or ids or elements need to be manipulated.
For a newbie, a browser based HTML / CSS / JavaScript developer tool like Firebug (a Firefox add-on) is super helpful when it comes to theming. Tools like this let you see exactly which CSS classes or ids or elements need to be manipulated.
