Drupal themes

One of the greatest things about the Drupal CMS is that it can support *any* look and feel you want it to in a just click of a button. Or at least it can once you have the theme you want designed and "Drupalized".

Themes/designs are a very unique part of a web site, because they they simulataneously are "just" a wrapper for the content on your site - while at the same time being *the* main element which keeps your site from just being a bunch of text splattered on a page (screenshot of this page without an active theme).

So you've got an Xtemplate that you need to convert to the PHPTemplate format because you've found out that the Xtemplate has become a third rate citizen at Drupal.org? (many modules don't support Xtemplate themes anymore, Drupal.org doesn't consider it a "supported" format, and "theming" Xtemplates is much harder than with PHPTemplates)

Well, no problem.

With a little work it is relatively easy to convert your Xtemplate into a much more compatible, supported, and extensible PHPTemplate. In fact, there's a very good handbook page at Drupal.org about this issue which I came across and have used to convert several of my own Xtemplates.

This article is provided for do-it-yourself'ers who would like to customize their site's theme colors, (which will be a good warm-up for doing other things with your theme, btw). With this information and a some patience it's should not be too hard to change your template's colors around yourself, so take heart, and quit your shakin' already!