Themes

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Themes
Presented by David King Date August 1, 2008
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Table of Contents

• What is a Theme?
• How to set the available themes
• What is configurable under themes?
• How to change themes
• How to add and remove themes
• How is the theme information organized in the
  database?

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What is a Theme?

• A Theme is a way to set what the style of every
  page will look like. This includes, but not
  exclusive to, the size of text and blocks, the
  color of text and background colors for each
  block, and fonts.

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Setting the available themes

• Administrators are able to set the available
  themes in the administrator section under Themes.

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Setting the available themes

• Check the box to enable a theme.
• Can select default theme
• Can configure themes

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Configuring your themes

• There are Global settings and theme specific
  settings.
• Global settings are things like logo and site
  name being displayed

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Configuring your themes

• There are Global settings and theme specific
  settings.
• Theme specific settings are things such as colors.

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Changing Themes

• Changing themes is easy.
• On the My Account page click edit

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Changing Themes

• Once in edit, select the theme you would like to
  use.

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Adding and deleting themes

• To add or delete a theme from your site, all you
  need to do is go to sites and then in sites go to
  all and in all create a folder titled themes. Add
  your custom themes here or delete them.

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Adding and deleting themes

• Once you added the them, dont forget to enable
  it!

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Themes database

• Well do to themes being so cool, they do not have
  any database tables. This makes them easy to add
  and delete themes from the site. All you have to
  do is add the files.
• Well in a way, I am lying. Under the users table
  it stores the name of the theme you are currently
  using. But that is all.

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Themes

• To get more drupal themes go to
• http//drupal.org/project/Themes

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Conclusion

• To sum up. Themes are styles for your site that
  each user can select to customize the site to
  their liking.
• You can add and remove themes
• Enable and disable them
• And customize them even further.