drupal theming

Websites being built today need to be accessible on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. I will outline a prototyping process that we are experimenting with to efficiently create designs for responsive websites.

I’m always on the hunt for a better base theme. I stuck with Zen for many a Drupal 6 project, and then switched to Fusion once I learned the ways of the grid. For a recent Drupal 7 project however, I decided to go a new direction and give the Omega base theme a try. I had heard some buzz about the theme at Drupalcon, and the theme’s feature set caught my attention. Amongst the selling points for me:

I recently had a task to create a new Drupal theme for one of our clients. The theme mainly consisted of HTML blocks which contained the header, content, and footer areas. However, the theme had many sub-elements and was generally complex, so it was critical to focus on leveraging the tools available (like jQuery) and not trying to use custom code for everything. When it came time to create the tabs for the site I set a goal to do this with adding as little JavaScript code as possible.