Drupal 7 sub themes a very simple how to guide.
Why Drupal Answers Stack Exchange recommends it
Drupal Answers users link it when someone needs a quick, practical walkthrough of creating a Drupal 7 sub theme.
Recommended by 5 people across 5 different months, 2012 to 2015.
What it is
A 13-minute screencast by Philip Gledhill, from 2011, showing a simple way to set up a sub theme in Drupal 7 that works with any Drupal 7 base theme. It is a beginner walkthrough, and the author points to a companion Firebug video for editing the new sub theme.
What people said
Recommends therobyouknow · 2012-03 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “What top tips you have for designing drupal themes?”
+1 For your answer and +1 for the Accepted answer. Here's some supplementary material to consider - these would help answer your question as well. [LINK] (Official Guide 1, General) [LINK] (Official Guide 2, How to build your own sub-theme (7.x-3.x)) [LINK] (Creating an Omega 3.x Subtheme) [LINK] [LINK] [this video] (Drupal 7 sub themes a very simple how to guide.) I've favourited your question as I may consider creating an Omega subtheme and I am including my own research here too.
Recommends AjitS · 2012-06 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “How we design themes using drupal”
You can try creating sub-themes by following the procedure given here [LINK] . Modifying is easier then creating a new theme from scratch(my experience). For this you will need to select a base theme, which you can download from Drupal.org [LINK] . The most common theme which is used to create sub-themes is Zen [LINK] . Here is nice tutorial [this video] which will help you get started.
Recommends chrisl-921fb74d · 2013-02 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Theme and subtheme basics”
You haven't really asked a question. But i'll assume that you want to know what a base and sub-theme is in drupal. TLDR version A drupal subtheme inherits the template files (*.tpl.php) and assets (javascript, css, images) of the base theme. If you need to modify or change the template files. More on subthemes I think your best bet is to google it. I googled, "drupal subtheme" and found you drupal documentation regarding subthemes [LINK] : Sub-themes are just like any other theme, with one difference: They inherit the parent theme's resources. There are no limits on the chaining capabilities connecting sub-themes to their parents. A sub-theme can be a child of another sub-theme, and it can b
Recommends Vagelis Kostopoulos · 2013-05 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “How to render-print content type fields in an article?”
ok, here is what I would do: Create a subtheme as per this video [this video] , let's call it mytheme Go to sites/all/themes/mytheme and create a file there called node--comments.tpl.php Go to modules/node/node.tpl.php, open it and copy eveything inside Paste that inside the node--comments.tpl.php that was created in second bullet Inside the node--comments.tpl.php , substitute print render($content); with your code <div class="green-box-comment"> <?php print render($content['field_comment_1']);?> <?php print render($content['field_comment_2']);?> </div> <div class="green-box-images"> <?php print render($content['field_image_1']);?> <?php print render($content['field_image_2']);?> </div> The reaso
Recommends Sam Stamport · 2015-05 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Themes, blocks, and content ... Oh my!”
OK. I found an image labeled slider-img1.png in C:\Users\Sam\Sites\devdesktop\drupal-7.36\sites\all\themes\corkedscrewer\images\local. I replaced it with one of my images. It worked. I then found [LINK] that pointed me to page.tpl.php. I'll check into it tomorrow. I also found some videos that are helpful [this video] & [LINK] I've not yet watched the second one. Have to sign off until tomorrow.