Kickstart your Drupal theming with an HTML template

Web design is hard. I am not at all a designer or graphic magician, but would like to see great themes on my Drupal sites, so I am continuously on the lookout for great templates to adapt to Drupal. Whoever professional you ask will tell you that building a website on an existing template is a bad idea and of course you should architect the look and feel and interaction of the website for the specific need at hand. Unfortunately lots of people just lack the professional and financial resources. And starting from an existing template still allows you to tweak it further (if the license grants you to do so).

Therefore, in this session, we will start from an existing HTML template and convert it to a fully functional Drupal 6 theme with blocks, menus, a screenshot for the theme selector and all live from the ground up in 45 minutes, instructions included. Some of the basic concepts of themes will be mentioned, but most of the intricate details will be missed, and the theme will obviously not work perfectly with all contributed modules, but what would you expect in 45 minutes anyway?