For those who weren't in attendance at Drupalcamp Vancouver last month, Mark, Hubert, and myself prepared and presented a production version of our internal base theme that we use for client development called "Base5".

Since then, Hubert has fine-tuned the theme in preparation to contribute back to the community. We've also changed the name to "Basic".

Hi Folks,
thanks for coming out to DrupalCamp Vancouver this past Friday and Saturday. It was great to see such a big turnout. I should give big thanks to Ariane, Dale, and Raincity's own DaveO for organizing this event.

Steve, Hubert and I spent a number of hours on top of our regularly full schedule to prepare a slightly extended version of the theming talk we gave a few months ago to the Vancouver user group.

If you're in the Vancouver area on January 31st (that's one week from today!), come down to the Raincity Studios office in Gastown for a quick overview of Drupal Theming from the ground up.

This talk, organized by the Vancouver League of Drupalers, will be free to all comers (space permitting). It's starts at 6:30pm, January 31st. Full details can be found at the groups.drupal.org page for Vancouver.

Hubert Florin, Steve Krueger and I will take you from the basics to the real details. We may not complete the whole theme in the short time allotted, but the plan is to give you the best tips and resources you can use to propel yourself to Drupal Theming fluency.

Here are the bullet points:

• Creating a theme from scratch / the theme folder
• An intro to creating your own "base" theme
• Some of our favourite Themeable Functions, and how to apply others
• Theming best practices

We'll post the notes on the blog and http://groups.drupal.org/vancouver if you can't make. Hope to see you there!