Progressive Theming Techniques for Drupal
Too often people assume that theming Drupal is going to be really hard and skip right to the hardest technique to accomplish something that is "trivial." This list is a gentle reminder that sometimes theming Drupal can be as easy as clicking a few buttons.
In order of preference you should use the following techniques to theme Drupal:
- Adjust the UI settings for Drupal core and contributed modules.
- Customize CSS styles for existing IDs and classes.
- Use variables, functions, tpl.php files provided by Drupal and contributed modules.
- Modify variables, functions and tpl.php files from the file template.php with preprocess functions.
- Create new variables, functions, tpl.php files with preprocess functions and adding theme settings theme-settings.php.
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