I've recently started theming in Drupal. I've been custom theming in wordpress for clients since about November.
One of my client projects required switching a non phptemplate theme into one that uses the PHPTemplate Engine in wordpress. The PHPTemplate Engine allowed the user to switch the sidebars on and off at will and have the main content region expand and contract according to if there are sidebars or not.
Turning a theme it into a PHPTemplate engine just required transferring a template.php file into the theme. Enabling the features available in the PHPTemplate Engine does require a change to the XHTML structure of a page which includes inserting PHP functions. Not a time consuming task if one already knows where to place the functions in the XHTML structure of a page.
Looks like I can add Drupal theming to my skillsets now!
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While http://stevejbayer.com and http://stevebayer.net both have a google page rank of 4, I'm mothballing and pulling content from there over to http://stevejbayer.com since stevejbayer.com has a lot more visitors than stevebayer.net
Exercising my theming skills, I've transformed http://stevejbayer.com/resources into a replica of its stevebayer.net counterpart. That's right, I got the pushbutton theme to work on just one page of the site thanks to http://drupal.org/node/139766 while the remaining pages share a different theme. There was a bit of sidebar juggling involved as the theme in use right now (Barron) has the left sidebar as the default sidebar but displays it on the right. A bit of switching php calls and td (gasp a drupal core theme uses tables?)
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