Master Drupal 8’s new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to completion.

Starting from the bottom up we will walk thru setting up and configuring a new Drupal 8 website. Navigate the Admin interface, learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Taking a look at a real world project, we will create a Twig theme that adopts best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding some of the common mistakes many front-end developers run into.

If you consider yourself a front-end developer you will be right at home, but since no PHP knowledge will be necessary, anyone who can create an HTML website with basic HTML and CSS skills will be able to leave knowing how to create a Drupal 8 theme.

All attendees will receive a digital copy of Chaz' book - "Drupal 8 Theming with Twig".

Course Outline:

• Understanding Content
• Working with Content types and view modes
• How to best utilize Custom Blocks
• Dissecting a theme
• Core themes versus Custom themes
• Creating a Drupal theme from scratch
• Using libraries to manage theme assets (CSS, JS)
• Twig fundamentals (syntax, conditional logic and filters)
• Creating custom templates
• Using Twig with Views to display content
• Best practices for Drupal 8 theming

This course is ideal for designers and developers who have an HTML/CSS background and want to get into Drupal theming. It will also be useful for Drupal 7 front-end developers who want to upgrade their skills.

• You should have the latest version of Drupal 8 installed locally prior to this training.
• Have a version of MySQL installed with ability to do a database restore.
• Understand how to work with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript libraries

Before the course, we’ll send instructions on how to set up Drupal 8 on your laptop using Acquia Dev Desktop or Drupal VM. This will allow for development on Windows, Mac or Linux based laptops.

Please make sure to install Drupal 8.1.0 as the exercise files provided contain database snapshots for this version.