The one thing you need to know about building CMS themes 

Does it support intelligent body classes? It will make your theming life so much easier, it’s absolutely ridiculous … Read about the WordPress version and the benefits of using this concept for theming purposes here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/body_class WordPress (2.8+): <body <?php body_class(); ?>> Drupal (originally from Zen Theme, since Drupal 6 in core): <body class="<?php print [...]

Create your first simple Drupal 7 module 

Create your first Drupal 7 module with the following steps. Create a folder called helloworld in sites/all/modules/custom Create a helloworld.info file Create a template file page-helloworld.tpl.php in your theme directory Enable your module at http://domain.com/admin/build/modules Visit http://domain.com/helloworld This belongs into your helloworld.info file ; $Id$   name = helloworld description = Reinholds Hello World module [...]

Drupal 7 Themes – Browser specific CSS 

In Drupal 6 you had to target IE specific CSS files by adding lines to your page.tpl.php or use an additional module which allows you to target browsers inside your theme.info file. In Drupal 7 however, the recommended way is by using the use drupal_add_css() function in your template.php file. function mytheme_preprocess_html(&$vars) { drupal_add_css(path_to_theme() . [...]