Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

Hour 24. Customizing Themes and Their CSS

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Look Inside Theme .info Files

• Override Theme CSS Files

• Change Background Images

Introduction

One of Drupal’s greatest strengths is its robust and flexible architecture. With the exception of a very few critical aspects of core, you can override just about everything in Drupal. Its architecture provides a reliable way of doing so, as you have seen with the sites folder, which can contain folders for your own themes, modules, and libraries. By providing you with a place to put your customizations, many people find that they never need to touch Drupal’s code. If you do need to write code, you write what you want and place it in your sites folder ...