walkah: phug

Earlier this week I gave a free workshop for PHUG here in Toronto. We had a lot of fun and our scheduled one hour turned into 3 or 4 (oops!). I had a lot of fun with the group and the night received good reviews.

During the evening, we took a pure HTML and CSS design and converted it into a Drupal theme. The design is called VectorLover - freely available from styleshout.com.

I took some time this week to clean up our work, and am making "VectorLover" available for download here. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments. Enjoy!

(Note: Due to the license, this theme will not appear in the Drupal repository. Sorry!)

October is a busy speaking month - but I'm excited to say I've been asked back to present another (free) PHUG Workshop on Drupal.

Back in April, I did an Intro Workshop. This time, I'll be showing off theming in Drupal 6:

In this workshop, we will show the process of taking an HTML & CSS design and converting it into a fully working Drupal theme. Along the way, we’ll look at the 3 main aspects of Drupal theming, some best practices and a few tricks. Drupal 6 makes the whole process easier than ever, so get started making your Drupal site look not like a Drupal site!

The workshop is Tuesday Oct 28 2008 @ 630pm at Seneca @ York Campus in room 2112. See the workshop announcement for full details.

I know it's late notice, but I'll be hosting a free workshop tomorrow night, April 2nd at 7pm as part of the PHUG + RMI free workshops.

For those of you here in Toronto that are unaware, PHUG is the new local PHP User Group. They have a lot of momentum and are an exciting group - I look forward to more collaboration in the future betweeh PHUG and DUG-TO.

The workshop will be Drupal Basics - a crash course in everyone's favourite CMS. We'll look at the core Drupal concepts, how building sites in Drupal works, and some basic theming tricks.

It's a free event, but space is limited so please register. Looking forward to meeting some new faces!

UPDATE: P.S. this isn't an April Fool's joke ;)