Making Drupal theming a little easier.

Creating themes for Drupal 6 can be an involved process, not least because you have to declare a number of important aspects of the theme in an [theme_name].info file. Not complicated (when you have done it a couple of times) just a little tedious.

I was therefore overjoyed to find that Chris Charlton has created an Adobe AIR application to do the 'heavy lifting' for .info file creation. The Theme Starter application allows you to create custom regions within your theme, add additional css and JavaScript files and generally stops you from making a mess of the syntax. Being an AIR application, it's cross platform with modest system requirements. There is also a well produced and comprehensive introductory video. Thanks Chris, now if you can just come up with an app to do the rest of the theme conversion...