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.
Shortening HTML id's and classes automatically in order to reduce kb of document and improve loading speed
When viewing Drupal HTML, one notices that the id's and classes on a HTML element can be at times numerous and large. Some of the tags are quite long as well. While clear tags can make for excellent readibility, and ease of design; they are extra bytes which slow down the passing of data, and add kb to the bandwidth.
What about automatically renaming and storing HTML elements and equal CSS tags in letter and number combinations?
For example, for illustration purposes:
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div class="block block-block ">
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div class="block-inner clear-block">
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BrainStorming about how Drupal is able to "compete" with community product usable out of the box
Community products usable out of the box : How is Drupal able to "compete"?
BrainStorming session Monday 3:00 to 4:00 pm Copenhagen time, Register at http://groups.drupal.org/node/88459)
Drupal has now at least two community products usable out of the box. http://commons.acquia.com & http://openatrium.com
(Edit 20100822) http://drupal.org/project/voicebox targeting targets community media
+ facebook like feature http://sndemo.dev3.webenabled.net/node/1
There is a need to see how those projects compare and are able to "compete" with non-Drupal products.
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Soliciting feedback for graphical Drupal promo video
Sorry if someone thinks I'm cross-posting too much, but I just wanted to get opinions from everyone who might have a stake in this :)
Alright, so I'm trying to think how I can do my part for this little community, and since I've got some degree of proficiency with Adobe Premiere and After Effects, I thought I might be able to put together a little video to explain exactly what Drupal is. I'm envisioning something with a catchy beat, and graphic/text elements -- no voice-overs. I'm in the really early stages of thinking about this, but I'm considering this picture to be my biggest influence right now as to the feel of the presentation:
(I really like the tetris-like style of it, and think that's something to work with!)
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Need a +1 or twelve for a simple issue: Add an "Associations" field to our d.o profiles
Apologies in advance for this crossposting to 11 groups. I recently started an issue to help us get to know each other better: Add field for "Memberships in Associations, Societies, and Other Professional Organizations" to User Profile. The initial response was, "Don't see why not, but let's hear more support before we do." So this is an appeal to read the issue and consider giving it your support.
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Active trails between two different menus
What I have:
A primary menu (one level depth) at the top of the page.
Some secondary menus to the right, that changes depending on primary links (controlled via Visibility).
What I need:
Primary links to stay active when secondary links activated.
You can see the project I'm working on at nexos
I'm a graphic designer, trying to evolve to serious web design with Drupal, and think I accomplished the theme task very well, but this challenge of active trails...
Read moreFuture of Audio and Video modules in Drupal
Read more..."The future in D7 and beyond is file (field)
along with PHP stream wrappers and other niceties. Media module makes
use of these features already.We perhaps need a new discussion on groups.drupal.org, to analyze and
figure out what kind of functionality projects like Audio and Video
should provide, if any, starting from D7.posted by sun on http://drupal.org/node/47998#comment-3139718
Politika Theme: Help design a free GPL Drupal theme
Hello theme designers/developers/users.
I would like to ask if anyone is interested in contributing to discussions about a new free Drupal theme. It is similar to some projects for getting new themes in core but instead of a community-designed theme directly for core (like Bartik) I think it would be better to just have it in contrib.
If you are interested please check out this blog post: http://www.sooperthemes.com/drupal-blog/project-politika-help-design-fre...
Thanks!
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Boston Design for Drupal Camp - MIT - June 19-20, 2010
5/8: Hi all, registration and a call for sessions is now open and out!
http://boston2010.design4drupal.org/
4/29: Site and information is forthcoming; this will be updated. Yes, it will.
See post for now and consider volunteering; even two hours helps!
http://groups.drupal.org/node/65448
Registration will be done via the site.
Read moreGame mechanics design workshop, Monday, April 26, 7pm, Austin, TX
Hi, I'm an interaction designer for a large Drupal site, and I host regular design workshops in Austin, TX. The next one is this Monday, April 26, at 7pm, and we'll be exploring designing game mechanics: http://vi.to/workshop/
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D4D Drupalcon SF meetup
Come hang with the cool kids before Drupalcon san francisco
This is an informal meetup for the designers / frontend geeks, themers etc you know who you are ;)
The plan is just to meet eachother before the con, and try to put a quick plan into play of where and what we wanna do with beautiful Drupal. Last
The meetup will be somewhere in the conference center. more info will follow
It will be sunday before the con at 15:00
Read moreLocation from Computer to phone capability
I am trying to make it easier for customers to send directions to a phone off of a website. Is there any new technology out there that can help with this? I have been reading on drupal and I have found that you can send phone to computer but I have not heard of anything that does computer to phone technology.
Read moreBuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF
I have received tremendous respons on this subject until now.
50+ comments on the discussion on GDO http://groups.drupal.org/node/45468
100+ people attended the real life Event WordPress / Drupal http://jbingold.com/content/rencontre-des-deux-mondes-wordpress-et-drupal
And today a twiit from a WordPress strategist http://www.twitter.com/roprice
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blockquote>@JBingold That session proposal looks terrific.. there's no question of the need for a BuddyPress equivalent in Drupal. Thanks
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Regular London code sprints...?
To all London (and UK) folk,
Having just got back from a mind blowing DrupalCon Paris, we were discussing on the train back the possibility of starting a regular London based code sprint. Brightlemon would be happy to host and organise it - provide the logistics etc.
Videos Posted: Design for Drupal Camp Boston
The video we captured is posted and linked off the Session pages.
http://boston.design4drupal.org
Titles with "+ Slides + Video" for example on the end will have those resources.
We hope that those that could not attend will enjoy some of the goodness we shared at MIT on June 13 and 14, 2009.
A special thanks to Sheeri Cabral and her assistant Ed Carlevale for their brilliant production work.
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Free Website Style Guide Photoshop Template
If you are a website designer, you probably know that having a clear and well prepared style guide can save an enormous amount of time for developer and save the designer from having to explain the design details over and over. That’s why I have created a blank website style guide template. I hope it will enable designers to speed up their design process and bring more beautiful designs to our community.
read more: http://mogdesign.eu/blog/free-website-style-guide-photoshop-template-my-...
Read moreAccordion Blocks module released for Drupal
Folks, we're happy to roll out yet another module for Drupal. It's called “Accordion Blocks”. As the name says, this module provides an accordion effect to all your blocks. You can also apply jQuery UI themes through the configuration settings of the module.
This block is for those of you who deploy apps with a lot of blocks on either side bars, and are looking for newer usability enhancements with regards to visibility of the blocks. It not only minimizes all blocks on a Drupal page, but provides a cool accordion effect to help your user to concentrate on a single block at a time.
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LA Drupal videos galore (DrupalCampLA + Meetings)
For over a year LA Drupal has been recording our meetings and many of our events. View the videos online... http://ladrupal.blip.tv
Subscribe to our video podcast... http://ladrupal.blip.tv/rss (available directly on iTunes too)
We provide these videos for free for people to learn Drupal of course. Over the next handful of weeks you will see us release videos from our meetings and DrupalCampLA '08. Learn the basics of Drupal, theme design, module development, advanced views, Services module (Flash + Drupal), and many, many more topics all relating to Drupal.
Follow us on twitter... https://twitter.com/ladrupal
Read moreWebsite launched! Drupal Design Camp Boston
The Drupal Design Camp Boston website is launched and we are getting ready for the June 13-14 event at MIT.
The attendee list is growing, and the sponsors are almost as excited as we are!
If you plan to attend, jump in at http://boston.design4drupal.org and sign up before it fills up completely.
Attendees can submit sessions, post to forums, join live chat on IRC, make small financial donations, and check out the latest News.
You can also follow us on twitter at D4DBoston.
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Do you think it would be helpful to invite the g.d.o community to provide input during the development phase of public themes?
Organizing the madness
Please note: The following was originally posted at http://groups.drupal.org/node/20016 in relation to starting a theme design competition to get some new "Quality" themes at Drupal.
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Hey all,
In my opinion competitions tend to create more alienation than quality. If you really want to get professional themes for Drupal then here is what I would do.
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