drupal 6

With Drupal5 and Views, theming was very straight forward: just add a specifically named function and there you go. Views2 changes all of that, and that is frustrating at first.

Any reasonably complex Drupal website involves using Views for listing items and CCK for the creation of custom content types. Since each website has a unique look, a large part of creating a Drupal website is theming Views and nodes.

Drupal theming has changed with Drupal 6 and so has the Views theming. Here is a quick introduction to the new theming approach in Drupal 6 and Views 2.