Creating Custom Themes and Zen in Drupal 6

Themes are among the most powerful and flexible features available when it comes to the presentation of a website. The greatest strength of Drupal lies in its design which, when done correctly, allows developers and designers to customize and micromanage each and every aspect of the site.

In this article by Karthik Kumar, author of the book Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook, we will be covering the following recipes:

• Clearing the theme registry
• Creating a theme from scratch
• Creating myzen, a Zen-based theme
• Choosing a CSS layout for myzen
• Overriding Zen template files with myzen
• Adding a custom region to myzen
• Adding a background image to the theme
• Adding a conditional stylesheet in Zen
• Modifying myzen's theme settings

Creating Convincing Images with Blender Internal Renderer-part1

In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we will learn how to go about creating really convincing still images in Blender with the help of Blender Internal Renderer.

Creating Content in Drupal 7

Drupal is a popular Open Source content management system.

In this article by Mark Noble, author of the book Drupal 7 First Look, we will take a look at creating content in Drupal 7.

Creating Channel for Moving a Website to ExpressionEngine

The vast majority of a website is content, and ExpressionEngine makes it easy to create and maintain such content. In this two-part article series we will create an actual website and learn how to use channels and templates to display our content.

In this article by Leonard Murphy, author of Building Websites with Expression Engine 2.X, you will take an existing website that was written outside of ExpressionEngine and adapt it to ExpressionEngine. As part of this transition, you will be creating your own channel with fields customized to the content that you will be displaying.

Creating Bar Charts

This article by Peter Backx and Dominic Gélineau, authors of ActionScript Graphing Cookbook, will give us all the tools to create multiple bar charts. Be it vertical, horizontal, comparison, or histograms, this article will provide solid bases to improve those charts even more. We will use the same methodology for every chart.

In this article, we will cover:

• Drawing a bar chart with Flex

• Building vertical bar charts

• Creating comparison bar charts

• Drawing histograms

• Creating sparklines to enrich text content

• Making 3D bar charts

Creating and Using Templates with Cacti 0.8

Cacti stores all collected information via RRDTool into files called rra. The RRDTool requires some parameters in order to create these rra files. Whenever we want to add a new device or create a new graph, we have to input these parameters. Inputting these parameters manually is flexible, but not very user friendly, and there is always a chance of error. Using templates, we can easily overcome this problem.

In this article by Dinangkur Kundu and S. M. Ibrahim Lavlu, we will learn how to:

• Use/add templates
• Make our own custom templates
• Import templates
• Export templates

Creating and optimizing your first Retina image

This article by Kyle Larson, author of Website Optimization for Retina Display How-to, will help you create a high-density image and implement it using the HTML <img> tag. You will also learn the importance of consistent file names. It also explains techniques for optimizing images, what tools are available, and why it matters for speed. and using Photoshop and GIMP to edit images

Creating and Managing User Groups in Joomla! and VirtueMart

In the previous article you have seen how to allow customer registrations to your VirtueMart shop, how to manage the registered users, how to define extra fields for customer registration and account maintenance forms. In this article by Suhreed Sarkar, we learn how to create and manage user groups and assign permissions to user groups. You will also see how to create permission modules and functions that are used for implementing a permission system for special groups.

Creating and Consuming Web Services in CakePHP 1.3

Web services are essential when looking forward to expose application functionality to third-party applications, or when looking forward to integrate foreign services into our own applications. They offer a broad set of technologies and definitions so that systems written in different programming languages can communicate.

In this article by Mariano Iglesias, author of CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook, we will cover:

• Creating an RSS feed
• Consuming a JSON service