Welcome to the Designers and Information Architects group. The focus here is on aesthetics and Drupal, whether it be improving the look of your customized site or creating themes to giveaway. Design novices and "theme ninjas" alike are encouraged to contribute by asking questions and sharing their tips.
This group aims to cater to designers first and foremost by making Drupal easier through sharing knowledge. For developer discussion about improving Drupal's theme system please visit the Theme Development group.
How to do a magazine style layout short
What I wanted to do was be able to layout images on a page in such a way that I could control the placement and size. I couldn't reallly find anything on this for Drupal 7. This will only work for one image size and image per node, but that was all I needed. However in panels you will be able to combine images. You will need to know how to work with panels, views, and fields (core) for this.
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D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #23
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 6.
Tuesday, November 6:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #22
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 30.
Tuesday, October 30:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #21
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 23.
Tuesday, October 23:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #20
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 16.
Tuesday, October 16:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #19
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 9.
Tuesday, October 9:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #18
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 2.
Tuesday, October 2:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #17
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, September 25.
Tuesday, September 25:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #16
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, September 18.
Tuesday, September 18:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #15
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, September 11.
Tuesday, September 11:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
Designing Drupal's Mobile Navigation and Beyond
The short story
Come and help us perfect and implement the hot new mobile interface design in Drupal 8. Try the prototype on your phone. Also, go to the issue queue.
The long story
Over the past six months we've been working on designing the experience of getting to where you want within Drupal's admin interface.
Read moreD8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #3
Please join us for our third IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, February 16. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, February 16:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
D8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #2
Please join us for our second IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, February 2. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, February 2:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
D8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting
Please join us for our first IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, December 22. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, December 22:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
Design Initiative IRC Meetups
Please join us for our 1st bi-weekly meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal 8 Design initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-design in IRC.
PST: 11:00 AM
EST: 2:00 PM
UK: 7:00 PM
CET: 8:00 PM
Drupal UX – IRC open hours #7
Another edition coming up. Join us on IRC in #drupal-usability ( What's that? ) for:
- Discuss the last remaining topic for the usability gate documentation: choosing our design principles to guide Drupal UX work.
- Bring your contrib module user interface problems! If you know the UI sucks but are unsure how to improve it, bring screenshots and/or a demo site and we'll review it.
Do you have other topics you'd like to bring up? Let us know in the comments. See you there!
Read moreDesign Initiative - Design Brief Proposal
Last updated by silverwing on Sat, 2011-12-17 16:45
Over the past months we've had many discussions here in the d4d group, at various Drupal camps, IRC and in the issue queues. I have kept notes and references to most of these discussions and based on those prepared a proposed design brief for the design initiative. It would be good if someone can enable comments on this wiki page, so we can discuss this and make changes etc to the brief. This is my initial idea - what is missing is a link to a demo site (I am setting that up today, I have a pretty good boilerplate site thats a good starting point).
Read moreDatabase development prior to MySQL
I am seeking advice about what might be the best database program to use to create a large pre-MySQL database, from which I will select the content to export/import/enter into a Drupal MySQL database.
I am developing my first Drupal site -- a web portal where information will be organized by relevance to various generations. The site will launch with a Baby Boomer orientation, with information organized for various baby boomer niches, and then expand to serve more generational niches.
Read moredesign.drupal.org Prototype for Review
Over the past few months we've been working away behind the scenes on the Drupal Design site prototype. There are quite a number of technical considerations when building a new drupal.org sub-site so these needed to be ironed out before we could really show this off.
I've posted a number of screen grabs to Notable and we can use these to collect comments and feedback on the various screens throughout the site - you can leave general comments here but if you're wanting to leave comments about the actual screens please post those to Notable.
Read moredesign.drupal.org licences for design files
Drupal Design sub site will allow uploading of design files for sharing with other users. There are three main sections to the site:
- Challenges - where users contribute and collaborate on design problems for drupal.org, drupal projects, drupal core and so on.
- Assets - where users can upload and download high quality layered design files such as icons, templates, textures and so on.
- Discussion - where users can post comps for discussion, collaboration, feedback and so on.
