A guide to surviving as a progressive Themer in the world of Drupal. Where backend and nested arrays is King and frontend is treated as something about colors, fontsize & Bold, .clearfix’es & the almighty div

Nobody told us what to do!
A short history of Theming and how Drupal came to claime record breaking 38% of the worlds usage of Div’s, and also Revealing why the Theming community is to blame for this (Wait what - wtf!)

Don't get mad - Get even!
The toolset’s of massive Markup Destruction.
A quick look at modules and themes that will make the themer feel empowered as if the god of Thunder had passed on the hammer. Preprocessing & Ice cold manipulation.

Hug it out!
Theming is the art of making Design & Code work together, theres secrets & pitfalls, that we could avoid, by thinking “the system(™)” right why we are doing it wrong & how to do it right again.

markup is more !important than everything else
Besides of beeing the language that can translate every browser & its cousins to look beatifull (even during Browserwars) Its also a tool for those that cant see the colors, forms & functionality of the website.

full disclosure: This session is battle tested!