Designers and Information Architects

Because of Drupal's special nature, there are alot of us hybrids in the community: designers with an interest in developing and developers with an interest in designing. I would like to create a place/discussions that dealt with this crossover.

I am speaking from the design pov because, well, i am a designer first and coder/developer second (read: way second). Also, I think that we can close the gap by developing several simple things:

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Hello, I'm just posting here to let everyone know that the bulk of the new theming handbook is up. Most of it has been rewritten and reorganized. I hope it is accurate and clear enough to get everyone familiar with the theming system.

It's still missing sections on sub-theming (which can get really fancy BTW). I hope to get a few solid explanations and illustrations on the possibilities. Engineless themes and theme engine sections are not there yet but I don't think it's too critical.

JavaScripting could use some help too. I hope someone can fill that in.

Drupal 5 Theming by Ric Shreves

If you are a designer wanting to learn Drupal, this book is for you. It is written by a designer so there are no programming sections full of code. It shows you how you can customize Drupal's HTML and CSS in detail. The book has a good amount of screen shots, charts, and other visual aids that really help the right side of the brain.

Hey people
ive just posted a wishlist for the image in core, that walkah were talking bout at the drupalcon barcelona.
i thought it would be a good idea to share this - so we can figure out what we want in this "imageincoreoneandforall" :)

link to the original post at my blog: http://morten.dk/node/174
flickr screens: http://flickr.com/photos/mortendk/tags/drupalimagesincorewishlist/

its still a working draft so spelling errors missing stuff etc ... ;)

Dear Walkah - the wishlist for images in core
original post http://morten.dk/node/174/

I'm thinking about using the signup module for an online class registration process, but I really need a waiting list feature when the classes reach capacity. Has anyone worked on a feature like this, for signup or anything else?

I found one mention of a wait-list feature here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/4151 but haven't stumbled across it anywhere else. Has anyone else had a need for this feature? I'm open to suggestions, or better alternatives than working with Signup, if anyone has any ideas for me.

Thanks!
Jen

A heads up on theme development for Drupal 6.

Thanks to the new theme registry by merlinofchaos, there's a nice side effect of being able to intercept theme functions from devel.

What this provides is the ability to list all themable functions used in a page making it a lot more understandable. There is working code but it still needs work. If anyone has ideas on presenting this information please post it. For now it just dumps it into a table but we can get pretty fancy with this, especially with jQuery.

Here's the issue queue:

I recently headbutted my wife's Cartoon Smart flash tutorials long enough to create two extremely simple flash players: mp3 and flv. If you look in the FLAs, I've limited the actionscript to the bare minimum.

But that's as far as I can realistically go. So, calling Flash devs who might be lurking: express your intent right here. I can handle the review and commits if you think you can improve these players and are willing for your contributions to be GPL and Drupal housed.

Joomla survey says who uses joomla

Some comments about the survey design

Understanding the users
1) Identify sector, what is your job, what computing knowledge do you have

These are all good questions that provide an understanding of the users.

Frequency
2) How long have you used Joomla

-Here they miss the opportunity to discover usage patterns, which are important considerations in user centered design. Designing for all day usage versus quick update usage.

Greetings.

I am a volunteer fund raiser on the Board of the Drupal Association. We are working on better integration between the main Drupal.org website and the association.drupal.org website. One of the obvious things we are working on first is a 'Spotlight' image for the Drupal association - these are the graphics that show up in the rounded box on the upper right of drupal.org; 'Drupal Planet' 'Security Announcements' etc.