New training to help you learn how to build Drupal themes is available online from Lynda.com. Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes shows how a Drupal theme can alter the look and feel of a web site. Drupal evangelist and author Chris Charlton introduces the core themes that ship with Drupal, how to install and administer new themes, change color schemes, and add sub-themes. Also demonstrated is how to build a custom theme from scratch, what templates are possible in Drupal themes; integrate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; and how to theme specific nodes, pages, and blocks by building a theme step-by-step for a fictitious online flower shop.

Videos include:

• How to build new Drupal themes
• Setting themes and theme permissions
• Using the Color Module to change color schemes
• Building sub-themes
• Adding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to themes
• Understanding templates
• Applying themes to pages, nodes, and blocks

View the trailer, free samples, or the entire course online now at Lynda.com

About the author

Chris Charlton is the manager of the Los Angeles Drupal User Group and co-author of the first book to cover Drupal with Adobe Flex. Chris is also responsible for the software provided by XTND.US, which has released (free) Drupal related software (Adobe Dreamweaver extension, and the Drupal Theme Starter desktop application).

Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes is an Online Training Library® exclusive from Lynda.com; this title is not available on disc.

Videos are available in both Quicktime and Flash formats. Closed captioning is available.

There are now a few Drupal video training titles on Lynda.com - check them all out.

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