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Do you make Drupal Web sites? Thank you for being awesome. The open source world needs you like peanut butter needs jam. Our clients are asking for better designs, and we really need your help. Design to Theme helps you make the transition from design to theme.

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Featured Ebooks

Practical guides to get you going.

Building the Beckon Web Site

Multimedia and Drupal 7

Earlier this year two of my good friends asked me to build them a web site for their band, Beckon. This workbook outlines (in great detail...over 70 pages) how I built the features you see on the site, features that are still in the works.

$11.95
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Multilingual Content in Drupal 7: An introduction

I won't lie: multilingual content can be enough to make your head spin if you don't understand the basics. Fortunately a lot of programmers have spent a lot of time developing the multilingual capabilities of Drupal--so it is possible to create a multilingual Web site...if you know how. This guide walks you through the basics of content translation models and creating your own multilingual sites with Drupal. Perfect for site builders with experience creating Drupal sites, but with no experience working in multiple languages. This guide will help you to choose the right content strategy for your translated content--saving you valuable development time.

$11.95
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Theming the Contact Form

Theming Forms in Drupal 7

Matt Haughey (MetaFilter) once said, “Forms are tedious, confusing, often poorly designed, and most people equate their use with things like paying taxes.” In this workbook, you will learn how to alter Drupal’s forms so that their purpose is obvious and they are easy to use. Most Drupal themes focus their styles and manipulations on the customization of content, not input forms. As a themer, you may have created a page template and perhaps individual node templates for each of your content types.

$11.95
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Microsite

Drupal Site Building Introduction Kit

If you've been struggling to learn Drupal, this kit is the perfect one for you. It includes complete instructions for four sample Drupal sites and introduces you to some of the most common hurdles in the Drupal learning curve.

By completing all of the sample sites in this kit you will be able to:

  • Build galleries and business directories with the powerful module Views. With a little creativity you can convert the samples on views into any type of content listing.
$97.00
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PSD to Drupal Theme workbook

PSD to Drupal Theme

Ever wondered how you take a flat design file and make it into a gorgeous, interactive Drupal theme? You aren't alone. This was the most requested topic in a recent Design to Theme survey. Caving to public pressure, Emma Jane has written her longest-ever Drupal theming workbook covering one of the most in-demand topics: how the tofurkey do I made a frigging Drupal theme out of this Photoshop file?

Key concepts covered in the workbook include:

  • The who, what, why, where and how of template files (tpl.php).
$11.95
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Available for immediate download in PDF format.
License: CC BY-NC-ND, 2.5 Canada

View the complete list of ebooks for theming Drupal 6 and Drupal 7

Accolades

I just wanted to tell you that I have had a true "Ah-HA" moment, on page 33 of SBE Guide: Community Site. After reading and typing and writing notes and going back again and again, all of a sudden I am looking at the code and I SEE it.

I just couldn't put all the pieces together before. I could see what was what (html, php, conditional statements) but I couldn't get my head around how it related to the site name banner up above. Like, I could see all the moving parts, but not the whole.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Thought I'd share my happiness :)

- Rachel, student in the SBE program

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Ebooks

  • Microsite
    Drupal Site Building Introduction Kit
  • Multilingual Content in Drupal 7: An introduction
  • Building the Beckon Web Site
    Multimedia and Drupal 7
  • PSD to Drupal Theme workbook
    PSD to Drupal Theme
  • Theming the Contact Form
    Theming Forms in Drupal 7

View a complete list of ebooks on theming Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.

CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 Canada Unless otherwise noted, all content on this site is (including workbooks published by Design to Theme) is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 Canada.