A
new book that teaches users how to create themes for Drupal websites has been
announced today by Packt Publishing. Written by prominent open source and Content
Management expert Ric Shreves, ‘Drupal 5 Themes’ helps
readers create striking new looks for their Drupal websites.

Drupal is an award winning open source Content
Management System, finishing as the overall winner in the 2007
Open Source Content Management System Award. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power
and flexibility combined with exceptional design, means it is already on the
way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS websites. Drupal’s modular design
and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and
modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple
personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional
web presence.

Creating
eye-catching and professional themes for Drupal websites can be a daunting task
for developers and designers. However with prior knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a
dash of creativity, this book will simplify the process by explaining the
Drupal theming architecture, the PHPTemplate engine, and also how to modify
existing themes and build new themes from scratch.

As
an open source project, Drupal is free to download. This means that it survives
through volunteers and donations from an enthusiastic community. In a move
designed to demonstrate their support and to help provide a source of revenue
for the project, Packt is paying the Drupal Foundation a percentage of every
book sold

Published
in December, 2007, this book will be suitable for anyone who wants to learn
more about Drupal themes and for designers of all levels who are trying to get
their heads around working with Drupal.

For
more information, please visit Packt’s website: www.PacktPub.com/Drupal-5-Themes/Book