Calling all designers!

Packt Publishing, who recently donated $5,000 to the Drupal Association after Drupal won the 2007 Overall Open Source CMS Award, announces a new book, Drupal 5 Themes by Ric Shreves. A description from the publisher:

This book is the ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 5. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal website, this book is for you. Starting from the basics of theme setup and configuration, you will learn about the Drupal theming architecture and the PHPTemplate engine, and then move on to modifying existing themes and building new themes from scratch. Included is a complete guide to the various style sheets and themeable functions in Drupal 5, making this book a valuable resource even to experienced theme developers. It covers:

• Creating custom templates
• Basics of theming in pure PHP
• Modifying an existing PHPTemplate theme— a step-by-step guide
• Creating a new PHPTemplate theme—a step-by-step guide
• Working with forms

The main requirements to make use of this book are knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a touch of creativity! Although this book aims to make Drupal theming accessible to designers, theming in Drupal 5 involves writing some PHP code, and a basic knowledge of PHP will be helpful.

Packt Publishing will donate 5% of the proceeds of this book to the Drupal Association during the first 6 months, and 3% thereafter. The book will be released in December 2007.

Drupal version: Drupal 5.x