DapperDrupal

Garrett DawsonJohn Ferris

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Custom TailoredThemes

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Why are we here?

Why make your own starter theme?

Case studies.

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Front-end Developer.

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Front-end Developer.

HTML + CSS + JS

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Front-end Developer.

HTML + CSS + JS+ theme functions + template files + render arrays + preprocess functions + process functions + alter

functions + theme hook suggestions + views + display suite +panels + cray cray

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HTML + CSS + JS+ theme functions + template files + render arrays + preprocess functions + process functions + alter

functions + theme hook suggestions + views + display suite +panels + cray cray

Themer.

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Front-end Developer.

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HTML + CSS + JS

Front-end Developer.

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HTML + CSS + JS

This is what users touch.

Front-end Developer.

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A typical approach.

Contributed modules

Base themes

Starter themes

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What base themedo you use?

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Contrib is rad!

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Then, one day...

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This is important: Front-end tooling.

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Make your own tools.

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Wait. What about contrib?

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Measuring Up.

What markup problems?

Who maintains the project?

What’s in the toolkit?

What do I want to fiddle with?

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CaseStudies

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7Staff Members

900+Websites

Stanford Web Services

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Open Framework

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Open Framework

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Open Framework

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Open Framework

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Panopoly + Bootstrap

Kalatheme

drupal.org/project/kalatheme

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bit.ly/14VPriy

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Center

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Center

This is our scaffold

Overrides templates

Overrides theme functions

Predictable and static

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Prototype

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Prototype

This is what we fork

Project specific

Cornerstone of the front-end

SMACSS

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Prototype

─ inc

└─ hook based template called in template.php

─ sass

└─ base, components, layouts, etc

─ js

└─ main.js, modularized JavaScripts

─ layouts

└─ templates and template overrides

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What does this do for us?

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There is noone-size-fits-all

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Get your measurements.

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Start building your own!

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Continuos Improvement

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Continuos Continuous

Improvement

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Push your craft forward

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And this is the end.

Photo Credits:

Slide 1 - http://bit.ly/141n1US

Slide 4 - http://bit.ly/12ifyN0

Folks I talked with:

Stanford Web Services - http://stanford.io/16qmvQA

Kalamuna - http://bit.ly/19fE7E5

Code Enigma - http://bit.ly/14QwLSQ

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