design

Client:
Goss Fencing Owner - Michael Goss

Task:
new website - first website

Planning Summary:
simple design, honest look, photo heavy, text minimal, easy to use.

Design & Direction:
boxs, lines, large type, photo gallery, complete it fast, non-corporate style, no “web 2.0”, keep costs to a minimum.

Launched:
April 2008

Site Link:
http://www.gossfencing.com

Outcome:

We have a network of Drupal based blogs and a social networking site. We are looking for a Drupal expert to oversee these sites. Requirements include the following:

• Help with design suggestions and implementations for social networking and blog style sites.
• Implemention of new features (modules)
• Daily management to make sure sites are running smoothly
• Ability to theme a big plus
• Actively interested in green/eco topics a big plus

Hi folk. This is a CROSS-POST from My Drupal showcase story (Yay, Front page, Drupal.org thanks Webchick!) that I thought I'd share with the Kiwis specifically.

I'm officially going crazy, which is what I hoped to avoid with Zen.

We have built a web 3.0 online music property and are hoping to launch once we integrate a few critical improvements to our current site. Startups tend to get a bad rap, I understand this. Logging long hours and being paid with promises is never an easy thing to do. Ironically, this is exactly what we're asking you to do. Our company is in a position to offer equity plus pay you a reduced fee for your contract work that will bring our site to a place we feel comfortable launching with.

I've posted both slides and tutorial links from my session: Designers Guide to jQuery. You can find them all here:

http://www.stevekrueger.com/braingarden/2008/05/10/designers-guide-jquer...

Thanks to all that attended! If you have any feedback from the tutorials and slides, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Stumbled on this yesterday...
http://www.drupalmuseum.com/

Nice to see a design-oriented showcase of Drupal sites!

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There have been a few rounds of discussions on Drupal UX goals/principles this past year, so I thought this announcement would be of interest to the community:

"Late in 2007, our User Experience (UX) group—which does user interface design, visual design, user research, web development, and user interface writing—set out to articulate the principles that ought to guide Google designs worldwide. What are the fundamentals that all Google designers and researchers accept? Which approaches to design are particularly "Googley"? How can we encourage teams throughout Google to dream big and make smart design decisions?"

I've got two ideas of Seattle DrupalCamp logos in need of a designer.

One is for a button, and the other possibly for a shirt. If you've got the skillz, drop a note here or send me an email directly (through the contact tab) and we'll talk.

I've taken advantage of the new Panels integration with Groups, http://groups.drupal.org/node/10445, to create what I hope will be a more useful site for the NYC Drupal community. The site now has the a welcome panel and a featured post in the top row. The next two rows list the latest Discussions, Polls, Events, and Wiki posts. Finally, the good old river of news lists all posts to the site in chronological order.