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I guess quite a few people are looking to integrate some voting mechanism into their sites these days, so here's a quick guide to theming Drupal's vote up/down module Digg style. Btw, thanks to Chad C for the suggestion, and if anyone else has ideas for posts/tutorials they'd like to see on My Drupal Blog feel free to just post them in the comments or drop me an email.

For this tutorial I'll be using the vote up/down module 5.x-1.x-dev on Drupal 5.2 and the default Garland theme.

This tutorial assumes that you have already installed and enabled the other necessary voting modules – in this case the voting API module 5.x-1.5. If not, refer to the install.txt and readme.txt files packaged with the vote up/down module for further help.

The Digg button

Well, Digg is the classic voting button after all, so lets look at how you'd theme Drupal's vote up/down package to look just like the Digg button. Basically, we'll take the default Drupal look (left) and turn it into the Digg look (right).