By maurice2099 on

Hi Everybody,

It has been mandated that my company switch over from using DotNetNuke (an .asp based CMS) to Drupal.
I'm a front end developer and I have a solid understanding of CSS, Html, and Javascript. I've also worked with PHP some in the past.

On the old system I was responsible for the DotNetNuke equivalent of Drupal themes. I've been going over the themeing guide on the site and I think I'm getting it.

Any pointers or best practices I should be aware of as I embark on creating a theme for my company and building our drupal site?

Thanks in advance.
Maurice

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WorldFallz commented

That's really too wide open a question to answer concisely in a forum thread. The one thing I would recommend is to use a responsive base theme rather than create your own theme completely from scratch. Personally, I like the bootstrap framework so I use http://drupal.org/project/bootstrap. However there's also zurb_foundation if you're more familiar with that. Then there's a host of other drupal focused base themes: zen, omega, adaptivetheme, mothership to name a few.

I recommend trying one or more of those and see which feels the most comfortable.