Using Drupal Themes

Drupal core consists of Drupal themes and theyXHTML, CSS, and PHP; and collectively build up a
contribute toward the aesthetic look and feel of theDrupal page. Each Drupal theme consists of regions
site. The administrator has the option of choosing aand they define certain areas of a Drupal page
theme to suit his purpose via a special menu. You canstructure. Drupal populates these regions with site
even change the color schemes of certain themescontent. Each content page will have nodes and
through a web browser interface. This unique featureblocks. Nodes are pages of content, which might be
of theme customization adds a higher level for aarticles or blogs and blocks are secondary content
non-coder. Dozens of Drupal 6 themes have alreadythat appear in the left or right bar columns.
been released. Also, you can use these professionalWeb designers can produce custom templates pages,
Drupal themes for free.nodes, and blocks. By default, Dreamweaver can edit
Drupal is a mix of PHP and web standards such asDrupal theme templates that end with dot tpl dot
XHTML and CSS. PHP experts can theme Drupalphp. The default Drupal installation comes with several
without even taking the help of templates by justthemes and these themes can be changed from the
using Drupal API. Web designers, who have expertiseadministration area. Drupal usually keeps its skin in the
with markup, can theme Drupal better and fastertheme subfolder. The archived themes in the
than developers. There is no need for any customSiteGround Drupal themes gallery are compatible with
code and that makes the life of web designers muchDrupal 5.x. To install additional themes, you need to
simpler. The theme layer simply picks up templateextract the files under the themes subfolder.
within a theme folder. The templates are known asThe active Drupal community of developers ensures
TPI files and the template file name ends with dot tplthat there is a steady flow of wide variety of
or dot tpl dot php file extensions.themes for Drupal CMS. You can choose from both
Drupal allows simultaneous installation and running ofdesign ideas and complete themes. You also need to
multiple themes for administrators and for siteidentify the source of themes and designs and decide
members. Drupal themes are collection of styles,if you would like to work with an existing theme or
graphics, and templates. These templates useconvert a design into a theme.