A little foreword on Drupal theming

Most of you reading now aware of that it’s said: Drupal is a great CMS. It is a completely flexible platform and serves as a great foundation to build nearly any kind of website. It has a well structured system which nearly completely separates code, content and style. Perhaps this flexibility causes most issues when dealing with theming. Creating templates for Drupal is wonderfully simple when it comes to the basics. Vast documentation and a helpful community stands there for the template developer but there are so many possibilities and so many available options that it’s often not enough.

It's been quite a few months since the book came out and I could hardly sacrifice the time to read through, but finally I did it. While I was reading I came to realize that it's simply far more easier to understand that many of the dev books around. I bet many of you think that Drupal is a really powerful and flexible content management system, but also many of you think that it can really be a pain in the back, a time waster what makes you an endless reader of the support forums.

In fact, if you're not too familiar with the techniques, you can ridiculously soon become frustrated if you want something beyond installing and posting content to your fresh site.

This book, the Pro Drupal Development written by John K. VanDyk and Matt Westgate is really easy to understand. Both of the main authors are core contributors of Drupal so you really get the insights of this project.