Convert a Site Template to a Drupal Theme using ZURB Foundation or Twitter Bootstrap

Speakers: 

Beginners and small Drupal web shops are always faced with budget constraints, this leads to the lack of resources to acquire a decent web design for their projects. When you search around there is the option of getting Drupal Themes from sites like themeforest for $45 Dollars, while this is a good option to obtain fast, affordable and good looking web design new comers will be faced with the problems as was clearly stated b\y Brent Bice in his post http://getlevelten.com/blog/brent-bice/why-cheap-drupal-themes-suck.

This session looks forward to give another option to this, by acquiring a cheap $10-$15 dollar site template using the frameworks mentioned and make the conversion to Drupal using the proper tools and modules provided by Drupal.

In this talk we are going to show how you can setup both Themes, Drupal Zurb Foundation and Drupal Bootstrap.
Then we will proceed to discuss and show the different tools that will help and allow a beginner to intermediate user to recreate the template as a Drupal Sub-theme.
The talk will address the use of views, responsive grid, block class and other modules to accomplish this transformation in the easiest way possible and with minimum changes to template files.

This talk will be friendly to both, English and Spanish speakers, we did it at Drupal Picchu 2014, think we can do it again!

Schedule info
Track: 
Experience level: 
Intermediate
Drupal Version: 
Drupal 7.x

Comments

develCuy’s picture

I have experience with Twitter Bootstrap, and got to know about Zurb Foundation recently, what is your approach on it? also, does learning this new CSS framework will serve as a complement or should I think on replacing Bootstrap with Foundation completely?

camoa’s picture

Thanks for the comment, In reality, both frameworks are pretty strong, It is a matter of taste. SASS Vs. LESS will be an example. But the session while oriented on Foundation Mostly (Cause I like it better only) applies to any CSS Framework. We are not limite to those two, but as clear examples of one in SASS and the other in LESS, I named them both.

You can also think on Omega 4, Zen Grids, etc.

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