Chaz Chumley, a technical director at Saforian and author for Lynda.com, discusses his extensive experience with Drupal and the creation of a new base theme that integrates Bootstrap. The focus is on following best practices to enhance theming flexibility while reducing coding challenges associated with jQuery. The document outlines steps for creating and extending a base theme, emphasizing practices such as preprocessing and dynamic region creation.

1. All Your Base Are Belong to Us

2. Who is Chaz Chumley?
+ Technical Director - Saforian
+ Author - Lynda.com
+ Govt. to Non-profit to Corporate
+ Over 7 years of Drupal experience
+ HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Design

3. Topics
+ Why another base theme?
+ Creating a Base Theme
+ Integrating Bootstrap
+ Preprocess, Process and Hook Alter
+ Fusion Apply
+ Best Practices
+ Extending base theme
+ Next Steps

4. Why another base theme?
Because I want a best practices approach that encompasses
Twitter Bootstrap, provides for dynamic regions, avoids having to
use Drupal's an-equated use of JQuery and allows for me to
focus more on theming and less on coding...

5. Creating a base theme
.info, folder structures and templates

6. Integrating Bootstrap
why reinvent when we can implement

7. Preprocess, Process and Hook Alter
Drupal output - Avoiding JQuery issues - Providing theming flexibility

8. Fusion Apply
creating dynamic regions

9. Best Practices
rinse, repeat and reuse

10. Extending our Base Theme
settings and overrides

11. Next Steps
practice, refine, experiment

12. Questions?

13. Thank You.