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.
What level sessions would you attend at DrupalCamp LA 2009?
Design and Usability: A Drupal Learning Track
Last updated by gusaus on Sat, 2010-10-09 18:48
[This is a wiki - please don't hesitate to update, revise, and contribute your ideas!]
Overview: focus on the site builders, themers and those interested in delivering a killer user experience both for Drupal itself and for their own sites.
Goals
- Attract more designers to Drupal
- Improve Drupal’s visual design
Drupal Design Camp Boston on June 13-14, 2009
Drupal Design Camp Boston is a free, two-day Drupal conference on June 13-14, 2009, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is being organized by members of the Boston Drupal group as part of the growing Design 4 Drupal initiative that launched when designers and themers took DrupalCon DC by storm this past March.
This camp also coincides with the drupal.org redesign sprint at the MIT Media Lab on Friday, June 12. The sprint picks up where the San Francisco redesign sprint left off and participants at the Boston sprint will be learning how to contribute to theming drupal.org as well as implement the redesign.
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Displaying fields in tpl files
Displaying fields in tpl files, like the node.tpl.php files, is a common desire to designers/themers. After conversations in IRC, at drupalcon, and in the parking lots of the Internet the common thought is that you need to make calls to something like $node->content['field_FOO']['#XXX']; to get to the information.
I've recently learned that there is an easier way to get to it. According to yched, on of the gurus of CCK and fields, you can use $FIELD_NAME_rendered in your .tpl files where fields are attached. This is true in Drupal 6 CCK and Drupal 7 fields.
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Drupal7 UX Project is Go! - Now's the time to get involved
You may have heard the excellent and very exciting news that following on from our work on Drupal.org, Mark Boulton Design has been contracted to take a look at the User Experience for the upcoming Drupal 7, and I'm very happy to be working with him on this project as well.
Read moreProposal: New theme file structure to Drupal
Note: This proposal envolved for discussion over http://groups.drupal.org/node/19817. Go there to get the background and continue the discussion.
This proposal is designed with following goals in mind:
- Minimal amount of code changed, most of implementation is just reorganization of existing files
- Better visibility for Drupal core templates and CSS
- Clearer separation of functional and aesthetic parts of the theme layer
- Offering several flexible and clear starting points for themers to build their work on
Wishlist for Theme/Design Contest
This is a proposal for a contest to promote Drupal theming and design.
Goals
- Get more beautiful themes into Drupal
- Get the designer and theming community involved
- Showcase Drupal theming done right
- Increase awareness of Drupal
What to call it:
The Drupal 2009...
- Theming and Design Contributions
- Theming and Design Initiative
- Design Contest
- Theming Contest
- Design Challenge
- Theming Challenge
Phases
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Was the Design Issue Queue a pipe dream?
At Drupalcon 2009 in Washington, the Drupal design community were asked to become active participants in contributing feedback to the Drupal project.
mfer was kind enough to give members of the Design for Drupal (D4D) Group a tour of how we could provide feedback through the Issue Queue. As a matter of fact, we were shown a version of the issue queue in which any project could be flagged as "needs design review".
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Theming Contest
We need a theme contest. It's been talked about many times over the past few years. I give you the previous attempts...
http://drupal.org/node/17876, http://drupal.org/node/25312, http://drupal.org/node/55460, http://drupal.org/node/6247#comment-9358
I think these attempts have failed due to lack of funding, support and clear organization. I want to get the ball rolling on this. Please reply with your ideas and comments. Here are my ideas I'm tossing around.
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Drupal Media Camp 2009 (English Version)
The Swiss Drupal User Group is organizing the Drupal Media Camp with a special focus on the media and Drupal in Aarau, Switzerland. It will be covering:
- how Drupal can be used to develop complex web based media solutions and
- what is happening in the Drupal community in the media area.
We are interpreting the term media to mean all web media including video, audio, pictures, publishing, communities etc.
The conference is targeted towards:
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DrupalCamp Copenhagen may 2009
DrupalCamp copenhagen in may is gonna be a blast!
Planned Higlights for the weekend:
* Friday night install party - so come by and get you laptop tuned up, and party with the geeks nerds & designers
* Code Development
* Nerdy presentations
* geeky presentations
* Frontend presentations
* Documentation & Drupal Understanding
* Noobs & übergeeks united!
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* Theming & design in drupal - will carry on the d4d momentum from DC/DC
* Why do front end html lovin geeks hate drupal?
* carry on the d7 discussion - how should drupal work
CSS subystem design (was: CSS reset in core?)
I posted a preliminary patch over issue queue http://drupal.org/node/395116 to stir a discussion whenever we need CSS reset in core and how core CSS setup -- file structure, rulesets etc -- should look like in D7. reset.css proposal is could be the first step in having decent CSS framework in core -- or if that is not gonna happen, just enforce some sensible CSS practices.
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D7: Future of color.module [Important]
We need your input here!
Do you think color.module should be apart of core? If so, should it be upgraded from its current state?
Do you find the color.module is tedious or complex? Do you find it beneficial to simple themes? To advanced ones?
Also, for D7, I'm proposing the idea of an open styling system in addition or replacement to color.module. This styling system would allow themers to create prerendered skins and also accept skins from the files layer (meaning it can use color.module schemes).
Read moreLooking for venue for Designer Meetup at Drupalcon
The Design Outreach Group is looking for a fun, safe venue near the DC Convention Center to host a Designer Happy Hour on Thursday, March 5. Does anyone have any good suggestions that are within walking distance?
Although the event is linked to DrupalCon it's officially open to anyone with an interest in Drupal and design. We look forward to seeing some of you there.
Read moreDrupal.org Redesign Prototype: Iteration 11
Hi,
This week sees the release of iteration 11.
http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11
This week we have made lots of some smaller changes throughout the whole prototype, items that were delayed from iteration 10. For this release, we've paid particular attention to several pages:
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Marketplace
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Download and Extend
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Modules landing page
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Themes landing page
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Search_by theme
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Home page
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Dashboard
There has been a lot of great feedback on the iteration 10 post, thank you all for your valuable input.
Read moreDrupal.org Redesign Prototype: Iteration 10
Hi,
This week sees the release of iteration 10 in the Drupal redesign prototype.
http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration10
We're currently working with the Drupal Association to further define an advertising strategy for the redesigned d.o. Therefore, we've included a few more ads, but it probably isn't indicative of the final strategy.
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Theme (PHP Template): Display author userpic from Page template
I need help with the logic to:
- Detect whether page.tpl.php is displaying a full node (one only, not listed)
- Detect if the author has uploaded a userpic, and if yes, display the userpic. If no, display the default userpic
Drupal.org re-design prototype iteration 8
Hi,
Iteration 8 is now available for you to browse and comment on. Last week the redesign took a pretty drastic change in direction so this week's release isn't as massive as we have worked to consolidate changes to the IA, reacting to feedback from the testing and to trends we have established in the community feedback.
Last week Leisa posted her thoughts on why we have moved in this direction and you can read her thoughts here:
http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-redesign-iteration-7-for-your-review
Leisa will also be posting again shortly to further discuss our thoughts and reasons for recent changes as well as talking specifically about the modules section.
The link to the latest iteration is below:
http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration8
Read moreTheme candidate for 7 core : 960 Grid System
This post is related to the project plan to get in a few new themes into Drupal 7 core. It will list some of the pros and cons of using the 960 Grid System. If you didn't know, it's what most might define as a "CSS framework". This specific framework was created by Nathan Smith. He states that it was started before Blueprint. I have mistaken it myself as a Blueprint derivative since it is a very similar system. But they both were inspired I believe by the same sources.
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Theme maintenance page
Is there a how-to/guide/mod to apply a custom theme to the maintenance page? Any help would be appreciated.
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