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Latest revision as of 18:06, 24 March 2017
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Styling a Page using Themes. |
| 00:06 | In this tutorial, we will learn about:
Introduction to themes Finding themes and Installing a basic theme. |
| 00:16 | To record this tutorial, I am using:
Ubuntu Linux Operating System Drupal 8 and Firefox Web browser. You can use any web browser as per your choice. |
| 00:30 | As mentioned earlier, a Drupal website can look like anything we want. |
| 00:36 | In fact, here are some of the different looks and feels from several Drupal sites. |
| 00:42 | Notice that they are completely different. |
| 00:45 | This is based on the Theme. |
| 00:48 | Themes can make your Drupal site look like anything you want. |
| 00:51 | Here are a few things to remember about Themes. |
| 00:55 | We can get Themes from a few different places.
We have free Themes at drupal.org which are called Contributed Themes. Or, we can purchase a Theme from a number of different vendors also. |
| 01:11 | Or, we can create our own Theme like Artisteer from Artisteer.com i.e. build it from scratch |
| 01:19 | Contributed Themes can be found at drupal.org/project/themes. |
| 01:26 | Block Regions are all determined by the Theme. |
| 01:29 | So, where we can place Blocks on our website, is a part of the theming process. |
| 01:36 | If we don't have the right region then its a Theme issue, not a Block issue. |
| 01:42 | Let's now understand Themes a little bit more. |
| 01:46 | We can get some fantastic free Themes at drupal.org. |
| 01:51 | Go to drupal.org/project/themes. |
| 01:56 | Let's take a look at some of the Themes that are available for Drupal. |
| 02:01 | Recall from our Modules tutorial, we have to filter by the Core compatibility of the Drupal version we're using. |
| 02:10 | There are 2205 Themes here. When we click on Drupal 8, this comes down to a smaller number. |
| 02:18 | With new theme additions, after this tutorial was recorded, you may see a higher number now. |
| 02:25 | Let’s talk about how to find and evaluate Themes. |
| 02:30 | This is very similar to Modules. |
| 02:33 | We will start here at drupal.org. |
| 02:36 | Now, when we filter by Core compatibility, they get automatically sorted by Most Installed. |
| 02:43 | Adaptive Theme is number one at this point |
| 02:46 | and Bootstrap is number two. |
| 02:50 | Let's click on Bootstrap. |
| 02:53 | Recall our DMV illustration from the Module tutorial? It’s the same thing here. |
| 02:59 | You have to read the documentation first. |
| 03:02 | Then check out the Maintainers. |
| 03:05 | And look at versions and project informations. |
| 03:08 | At the time of recording, this particular Theme is in Drupal 8 x 3.0 alpha 1 version. |
| 03:16 | And, there is a development version also. |
| 03:20 | Later on, there's going to be a Drupal 8 version of this Theme, up here in the green. |
| 03:27 | A Contributed Theme can have several flavors as well. There are 3 different kinds of Themes. |
| 03:34 | We can have a very simple Contributed Theme that you can configure to a point. |
| 03:40 | We can have Starter Themes like Bootstrap or Zen. |
| 03:46 | It will literally give you a blank screen and minor framework, in order to put your own CSS in. |
| 03:52 | Or, we can have a Base Theme that is designed to have other Sub-Themes placed on top of it, something like Adaptive Theme.. |
| 04:02 | But the rules are all the same here. |
| 04:05 | Look at the documentation; look at the Maintainers and look at the versions. |
| 04:11 | We will install a Contributed Theme now. |
| 04:13 | Let’s go to drupal.org/project/zircon. |
| 04:20 | Scroll down. This is a nice Theme, that's been developed specifically for Drupal 7 and 8. |
| 04:28 | It's not used on many sites. |
| 04:31 | We will be using this theme because it is ready for Drupal 8, as of today. |
| 04:37 | Let us right-click on tar.gz and copy that link. This is similar to installing Modules. Let’s go back to our site. |
| 04:47 | This time click on Appearance and Install new theme. |
| 04:52 | Again, same process as with Modules. |
| 04:56 | Let us paste that URL and then click Install. |
| 05:00 | The Theme is downloaded to our web server, and we are able to now turn it ON. |
| 05:06 | Click Install newly added themes. |
| 05:09 | Scroll down to the bottom. |
| 05:12 | And you'll see Zircon.
"A flexible, recolorable theme with many regions and a responsive mobile first layout". |
| 05:21 | Click Install and set as default. |
| 05:25 | Now, as we learnt in the intro video-
Number one : Installing new Themes doesn't change the content and Number two : We may need to re-position our Blocks. |
| 05:38 | Now, let's take a quick look at the settings. |
| 05:42 | Click on the word Settings. |
| 05:45 | We have the normal TOGGLE DISPLAY in Zircon |
| 05:49 | and the shortcut icon. |
| 05:51 | Once again, if you want to update the logo- that's under Global settings |
| 05:56 | And LOGO IMAGE SETTINGS, |
| 05:59 | Click Save |
| 06:02 | And then go to our site. |
| 06:04 | This is Zircon - a completely flexible, robust, and global friendly Theme for Drupal. |
| 06:11 | Let's head over to Structure and Blocks. |
| 06:15 | And click on Demonstrate block regions for Zircon. |
| 06:19 | We'll see a number of Block regions here. |
| 06:22 | A Header region. The Main menu needs to go in the Main menu Block Region because then it gets proper formatting. |
| 06:32 | There's a Slideshow region, in case you are using something like View Slideshow. |
| 06:37 | A Featured block region, |
| 06:39 | Help,
Sidebar First, Sidebar Second, Content, |
| 06:44 | Panel First, Panel Second col 1, 2, 3 and 4. And then a Footer region. |
| 06:53 | Notice that some of the regions from our default Theme are no longer available. |
| 07:00 | Let's take a quick look and see what we need to do here. |
| 07:03 | There are a lot of stuff in the Header region. The Footer region to which we had assigned the "Powered by Drupal" block, no longer exists. |
| 07:14 | We will put that back into Footer. |
| 07:17 | It immediately disappears from the Header. |
| 07:20 | Let's take the Status message out of the Header and put it into messages. |
| 07:26 | Let's put the Footer menu again, down into Footer. |
| 07:30 | We'll leave Search, Site branding and User account menu where they are for now. |
| 07:36 | Primary menu is in the wrong spot but let's just take a quick look at that. |
| 07:42 | Click Save blocks. |
| 07:44 | Go back to our site. |
| 07:47 | And we'll see that the Main menu is nowhere to be found. That's because Primary menu doesn't exist in this Theme. |
| 07:55 | So, we will take our Main navigation and change that to Main menu. |
| 08:01 | Scrolling down.. let's take a quick look. |
| 08:05 | In our Content area, we've got the Help block. |
| 08:09 | Let us put that in Help. |
| 08:12 | Page title, Primary admin actions and Page Tabs are fine. |
| 08:18 | Sidebar first, Welcome to Drupalville, Book navigation, Recent Events Added and Tools. |
| 08:26 | Let's take the Tools menu and put that inside Sidebar second.
We haven't done this before. |
| 08:34 | There are four Panel regions here in which we can place anything we want. |
| 08:39 | Now, click Save. |
| 08:41 | And let's take a look at what we did. |
| 08:44 | This is a lot better now. |
| 08:47 | Our menu is properly placed in the Main menu block region.
The CSS is picked up, making it a nice in-line menu, with some shading and some colouring. |
| 08:58 | BOOK NAVIGATION, RECENTLY ADDED EVENTS on the left. |
| 09:03 | And the TOOLS are on the right, again Sidebar first and Sidebar second. |
| 09:10 | And all the content is in the middle. |
| 09:12 | A couple of things to point out here. |
| 09:15 | We've changed our themes. Everything has changed, except our content. |
| 09:20 | We've got new fonts, new font styles, new H3 tags, new Block regions, layouts and a new Footer area. |
| 09:31 | But what's not changed is our content and the actual layout of our content. |
| 09:37 | To change those, we will need to use Panels or Display fields.Those are the add-on Modules that we can get from drupal.org. |
| 09:48 | Themes are fantastic. Now this is a really simple theme.There are also some very complex themes that we can get for Drupal. |
| 09:58 | You can come back to drupal.org/project/themes. Take a look at some of the Drupal 8 themes that are available. |
| 10:08 | Find some themes that you like, install them and play with them. |
| 10:13 | This is a great way to learn about how themes impact your site. You may find just the design that you want. |
| 10:21 | With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. |
| 10:24 | Let us summarize. In this tutorial we have learnt about:
Introduction to themes Finding themes and Installing a basic theme. |
| 10:45 | This video is adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by the Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay. |
| 10:54 | The video at this link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it. |
| 11:00 | The Spoken Tutorial Project team conducts workshops and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us. |
| 11:08 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and NVLI, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. |
| 11: 19 | This is Vanessa Varkey, signing off. Thanks for joining. |
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