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It seems Grid systems, or CSS frameworks, are being picked up by the Drupal themer community. I think this is a good thing. Some think it is a bad thing. So let us have a look at the downsides and upsides of grid systems in Drupal.

Grid Systems force you to change your HTML, that is bad.

This is wrong, for three reasons.

1. It might be bad, if it were true. But not all grid systems, or their implementations require changes to the HTML, in theory. I love SASS and its tool-kit Compass.

The fabulous basetheme Genesis is now mirrored on Git.

This has several advantages. A basetheme is used as scaffolding for your own theme. During upgrades and bugfixes, however, your altered version will be hard to keep in sync. Usually this costs a lot of manual labour; eliminating one of the advantages of a basetheme: continuous re-use of existing work.

Luc van Braekel recorded the Drupal Devroom on FOSDEM 2008. De presentation by Morten (aka King of Denmark) and me is uploaded to google video. De presentations are uploaded tp slideshare and can be downloaded below.

Together with Morten, one of the best Drupal themers, I will give an introduction in Theming for Drupal-6.

So, if you aer interested in theming for Drupal in general, or Drupal6 in specifics, make sure you pop in at the Drupal-developers room.

Probably everyone here know the Firebug plugin and the Web developer toobar for firefox and the one for Internet Explorer.
But for those running Mac, or Linux (using, e.g. wines ie4linux) the Internet explorer toolbar will not be usefull, if it works at all.

At the first Dutch DrupalJam, I gave my workshop theming
Below, you can find the slideshow and the resources for the live demo, The presentation is Dutch though. You can also find the presentation (and more) on slideshare, so you can re-use, or embed it on your own site.

During the workshop a lot of sites about CSS passed by. Below you find a shortlist of the most important CSS resources.
For a more comprehencive overview, you can see my CSS tag on Simpy.