theming

"Themers toolbox today im gonna look at a ton of Modules some starter theme"

"playing around, trying to pretty up Drupal forms."

This Views plugin makes unformatted styles, field row styles and other output more readily configurable without needing to override template files. Instead of overriding row style templates for views where you want to specify different HTML elements (tags) and class attributes, you can specify these inside the Views UI and avoid overriding templates for each view.

To use this module, select the Semantic Views style and row style for your view. HTML elements and class attributes are revealed in the settings for those two plugins.

semanticviews

A "sustainable" theme is one that can grow seemingly effortlessly as the site grows. It saves time reducing theme work in the long term, and allows developers to change and add new sections that just "look right" right away.
Agenda

Using the custom theme of a large website as an example, I will go over:

Mastering version control is what enables developers to create more robust projects. It helps to preserve not only your code base, but each incremental step to get there, allowing you to recover old code and revert code you no longer want.

Agenda

This session will be an introduction to the concept of version control, and how to put your custom Drupal theme in version control.

An API for browsing next/previous nodes without overloading your database server.
Description

This module allows you to know the previous or next nodes for any given node. This is very useful for providing navigational links to the user without the expensive queries required to dynamically deduce such information on the fly.

The use case is two fold:
Usability/Navigation

Nice Menus enables drop-down/right/left expandable menus. It uses only CSS for most browsers, with minimal Javascript for IE6. (Version 2 uses the Superfish jQuery plugin for all browsers, with an option to disable JS, and falls back to CSS-only for browsers that can handle it.)

Three styles/types of menus are currently possible: horizontal, menus drop down; vertical, menus fly to the left; vertical, menus fly to the right. There is a handbook page that provides a list of sites that use Nice menus.

BlockTheme allows an admin to define tpl files for standard block templates and provides a select box on the block configure form so the user can select a tpl file to use as opposed to having to override the templates by block ID.