Drupal 6 Themer Toolkit

If you've been doing Web development work for a while you probably have a toolkit of some kind. Whether you're new to theming Drupal, or you've been around for a while, check out my toolkit to see if you're working as efficiently as you could be. This list is adapted from Chapter 2 of Front End Drupal and my Themer Toolkit talk from DrupalCon DC.

Drupal modules

• Views
• CCK
• Devel and Themer
• imagefield and imagecache
• Panels for advanced layout techniques

Admin Tools and Themes

• Admin Menu
• RootCandy Theme
• Admin Module

Browser extensions

• Firebug www.getfirebug.com
• Zotero (save whole web pages to create a design library) www.zotero.com

CSS Grid Framework

There are lots. Here are a few.

• 960 CSS Grid System
• Blueprint CSS Grid Framework

Starter theme

There are more. These are my favourites.

• Zen: http://www.drupal.org/project/zen
• 960gs: http://drupal.org/project/ninesixty
• Fusion: http://www.drupal.org/project/fusion
• Beginning: http://www.drupal.org/project/beginning and http://drupal.org/project/beginningW2
• Blueprint: http://www.drupal.org/project/Blueprint

Browser testing

Free: www.browsershots.org
Worth every penny you pay: www.browsercam.com

Version control

Bazaar http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/
Git http://git-scm.com/
Subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/
CVS http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/