Geting Started With Drupal Development

By mds2907 on 1 Dec 2014 at 14:52 UTC

Hi All,

I am new to this forum and visiting for the first time. Basically I am web developer with a good experience in HTML, CSS and working on developing websites. I am new to Drupal and I have been assigned to migrate an already developed html website that contains css, javascript developed in Visual Studio 2010 to Drupal. I have installed Drupal 7 on my system and MYSql after research and trying to understand how Drupal Works. I have no idea of PHP. I have also downloaded study materials to understand the basics. But I am finding it very difficult to understand how to create pages and add CSS that would bring the Look and feel that I am need. I have gone through creating Basic Page, but I am unablr to follow on how to edit css or write custom css for the page. When I edit the page, all I get to edt is Title, and put some code in the Body and Save it.

What I would like to know is how can is create theme and what the mandatory things that to be followed and create a page.

Please guide on this. Your Help and Support is Appreciated.

Comments

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WorldFallz commented 1 December 2014 at 14:59

CSS and most HTML is handled by the theme system and therefore the theme. Best Practice for customizing a theme is to create a subtheme and put your modifications there.

A couple of resources I found useful for learning theming:

Hi,

mds2907 commented 2 December 2014 at 07:58

Hi,

I have read few articles online and went through an tutorial where it was given how to creata a theme from scracth. I have followed the tutorial and created a theme under /sites/all/themes/mytheme. Under "mytheme", i have created a page.tpl.php, layout.css, mytheme.info files. I have no idea of how to inlcude this theme under drupal. I am not able to get the theme listed under "Appearance" tab in Administrator settings. Please guide on this on how to include the themes

Appreciate your help.

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WorldFallz commented 2 December 2014 at 14:36

I am not able to get the theme listed under "Appearance" tab in Administrator settings.

If you've created the theme correctly, it should just appear there. Double check the .info file-- that's what determines whether or not the theme shows up.