Drupal Theming

Drupal theming can turn a boring and clunky site into a beautiful and intuitive user experience.

Drupal themeing is usually accomplished with a lot of CSS rules in a file called style.css and HTML modification of Drupal theme template files like page.tpl.php and node.tpl.php.

Firebugging Design 

All the usual design skills and tools for developing CSS and HTML apply. You will find the Firebug Firefox Extension to be the most essential tool for experimenting with different CSS possiblities.

PHP Elements

You can do a lot of Drupal theme design without modifying any PHP code, but to unlock Drupal's full customization potential it is helpful to learn to write and modify PHP code in the PHPTemplate.

Links

Extreme Drupal PHPTemplate Theming