All Your Base Are Belong to Us

Who is Chaz Chumley?

+Technical Director - Saforian

+Author - Lynda.com

+Govt. to Non-profit to Corporate

+Over 7 years of Drupal experience

+HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Design

Topics

+Why another base theme?

+Creating a Base Theme

+Integrating Bootstrap

+Preprocess, Process and Hook

Alter

+Fusion Apply

+Best Practices

+Extending base theme

+Next Steps

Why another base theme?

Because I want a best practices approach that encompasses

Twitter Bootstrap, provides for dynamic regions, avoids having to

use Drupal's an-equated use of JQuery and allows for me to

focus more on theming and less on coding...

Creating a base theme.info, folder structures and templates

Integrating Bootstrapwhy reinvent when we can implement

Preprocess, Process and Hook AlterDrupal output - Avoiding JQuery issues - Providing theming flexibility

Fusion Applycreating dynamic regions

Best Practicesrinse, repeat and reuse

Extending our Base Themesettings and overrides

Next Stepspractice, refine, experiment

Questions?

Thank You.