Installing a Drupal theme
After you have decided the best theme to go along with your online store, you should follow these steps to install it. This is a rather straightforward procedure, very similar to the one performed in Chapter 2, Installation of Drupal and Ubercart, during module installations:
1. We will go through installing the second most popular Drupal theme according to Drupal.org statistics. Go to http: / /drupal. org/proj ect/ acquia_marina and click on the download link next to the 6.X-1.9 version.
Acquia Marina
By jwolf on the 1st of October, 2008
Acquia Marina is an advanced theme developed by TopNotchThemes in partnership with Acquia for their commercially-supported Drupal distribution. It contains the same kinds of features you'll find in our other Drupal themes.
• 15 collapsible block regions
• Drop-down primary links menu [optional)
• Advanced theme settings to customize without coding!
• Includes icons for core and Views blocks
• High attention to detail on things like forms, lists, comments, quotes, and Drupal maintenance page
• RTL theming now added to development snapshot release
• Cross-browser tested in IE6/7, Opera, Safari, and Firefox ■ Layered Photoshop PSD files now available!
#D7CX: I pledge that Acquia Marina will have a full Drupal 7 release on the day that Drupal 7 is released.
Date
2009-May-13
Download ■ Release notes
Recommended for 6.x
Find out more Bugs and feature requests
2. Secondly, you have to upload the theme to your local site theme directory using FTP. Theme should be unzipped and placed in the [drupal root]/ sites/all/themes path of your Drupal site installation. See Chapter 2, for more details.
3. After you extract the zipped file in the themes directory, navigate to the themes administration screen (Home | Administer | Site Building | Themes), or hit a page refresh if you are already there. Select the theme that you want to install and press Save configuration.
After you apply the theme, your online shop will look like the following:
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For those of you coming from another CMS such as Joomla!, where you are more familiar with a separate administration interface, you may also simulate this behavior in Drupal. Another good reason for doing so is that, this way you will be able to perform administrative tasks without any distraction that eye-catching e-shop features will pose. To do that, go to Home | Administration | Site configuration | Administration Theme and choose a light-weighted theme, such as Garland. This theme will be activated only when you authenticate using a user with administration privileges.
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