Tutorial : Learning How To Theme In Drupal, Starting At Square One

Note: I'm going to start regularly answering questions I get via email by blog. The reason being that email is a blackhole; and I am getting too many good questions everyday. When I have a few moments to answer, I figure I should make them available to everyone.

A reader by the name of Fouad writes:

Hi, I went through your tutorial on drupal themes, but it required a lot of programming experience. Isn't there an easier way to put together a drupal theme? For example, what if one wanted to start with an empty page, and build their theme from the groundup?

...is their a straight forward process to make 2 column/row, 3 column/row, 4 column/row themes?

Drupal themes are very straight forward... ...provided that you understand why they are straight forward, and why a more straight forward way is difficult (actually, impossible at present... that may change in Drupal 4.8 or 4.9).

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