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.
Drupal's Designer Future
Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to write in and link to Steven's excellent post titled "Drupal's Designer Future" in case you didn't see it:
http://acko.net/blog/drupals-designer-future
Let's work together to make Drupal better for designers! There is a lot that can be done that will make our lives easier and benefit the entire Drupal community. It's not an easy task, but let's figure out a game plan and priorities to get some enhancements done now so they can be included in the next release.
Your thoughts?
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Experimental theme - lumen
This project started about 4 months ago. At first it was just to contribute a nice little theme but it changed into a source of learning and experimentation on what could be done with Drupals' theming layer.
The code is commented pretty well so I hope others can learn from what's been done. Some of the ideas that went into the theme will eventually end up in the handbook and a site will be dedicated to it also.
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Best 5.0 Baseline theme?
As a newbish theme-monkey who's been tinkering with things for a while now, I've got a quick question for the ranks: Is Zen the best "baseline" theme to use when creating your own theme for 5.0? Is anyone working on a basic multi-column template bare-bones type theme? I thought I'd seen one crop up for 4.7 a while back... Just wondering...
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January Lullabot Workshops in Providence, RI
Lullabot has another round of workshops coming up in January. We've got a great space in Providence, RI centrally located for people in both the Boston and New York areas -- and close to the airport for people coming from further away. Over the course of the week, we'll be building a single project – a Drupal-based CRM and attendees can sign up for individual workshops, or stay the whole week to see the project from beginning to end. Here's the rundown:
Read moreWanted: Drupal Mentor / Sub Contractor
Project: Website redesign and production for Non-profit
Description: looking for a mentor for implementation of Website redesign within the Drupal content management system. I am a web designer and producer with fairly in-depth knowledge of web design and production techniques (XHTML, CSS and some javascript) and very basic working knowledge of PHP, phpMyAdmin, and Drupal. I have taken Lullabot’s Theming course (SF – October) and this is my first project using Drupal.
The website is for a non-profit that produces initiation weekends for young men ages 13 – 20. You can see their current website at www.ymuw.org. The redevelopment of their site will consist of two phases.
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YAML layout framework for Drupal
YAML is a (X)HTML/CSS layout Framework
http://www.yaml.de/
For Drupal
http://www.yaml-fuer-drupal.de/
Read on
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Do you design for handhelds?
Theme Development Workshop
Working over the weekends is no fun, but having friends around helps.
In order to brighten things up a bit, Trellon will be conducting a theme development workshop this Saturday, October 7, 2006 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM EST. We will be discussing CSS design considerations, cross browser issues, best practices with phptemplate, implementing AJAX within user interfaces and more. During the meeting, we will be working on an actual project and sharing the tips and tricks we use to design great Web sites. We will also be doing a question and answer session at the end of the meeting, so come prepared.
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Differences between this group and the theme group
Hey group...
I got home from walking my two dogs this evening and found the last two posts on our board... one by Ber and the other by Moshe.
If you're subscribing to Drupal Designers, you'll have already seen those.
So, I wanted to post a follow up to this idea that the Theme group and the Designers group are overlapping... I don't think that is the case at all.
Been designing for over 10 years...
First off, let me say that I'm new to drupal (and loving it) but I'm not at all new to web design or design period... I've been in this game for over 10 years now... Seen a lot of stuff come and go... I've been working in Photoshop since version 2... and I taught myself Perl back before PHP was even imagined. (of course now I do PHP as well though) :)
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Designers? in Drupal we call them theme developers.
I am a bit worried that this group does 90% what the "theme developers" group does.
Can we get "together" and decide the differences and then publish these differences in our group description?
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Vancouver Drupal Web Developer Position Available
Vancouver seems to be the place to be if you are looking to work with Drupal. Posted below is the web developer job description for Image X Media. (full disclosure: I am an Image X employee)
Read moreDrupal Podcasts... any others out there?
I'm only aware of two drupal podcasts.
Does anyone else know of any others?
Lullabot (great podcast, audio and video by Jeff Robbins)
http://www.lullabot.com
And I just came across this one today and it seems pretty cool too... only video though.
http://dudertown.com/howto_classes
It looks like these guys are doing a "class" on drupal right now. So, it may eventually be on some other topic.
If you know of any other good podcasts related to drupal or anything that could help our group's members, post a comment.
-Jeff
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sIFR - open discussion
Ever used GIFs to display that cool font on a website? You hope it doesn't effect your search ranking and accessiblity, but the customer is adamant that the design comes first.
Gordon Heydon mentioned this thing called Scalable Inman Flash Replacement or sIFR. Apparently some drupallians are using it (eg. Bryght). I had to find out more.
Read moreDesign is visual... so we need to post images right?
Hey gang...
Design is very much a visual art, right?
So, it's a challenge to do much discussing about designing for drupal without images to illustrate the point.
So, I've created a group on flickr just for us.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/drupaldesigners/
Feel free to join that group if you're a flickr user.
Once you upload your images there, it's very simple to copy the thumbnail html code and paste it into your post over here... and the flickr code links back to the larger image on the flickr website. You can even modify the code to force it to open in a new window if you want.
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If you haven't seen the new TWit.tv site design powered by drupal, check it out.
http://www.twit.tv
Jeff Robbins (and gang) over at Lullabot.com did the drupal implementation and it is a huge success.
You can hear more about it in one of their recent podcasts with Leo Laporte.
The next time you have a few minutes to spare, take a look at the code using that web-dev-toolbar in firefox and you'll see a great example of the way code should be written.
Read moreFirefox Web Dev toolbar for xhtml
Hey gang...
You all probably already know about this...
but for those of you who don't, check out and install the Firefox Web Developer's toolbar.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/
It's a great way to take a peek at the behind the scenes source code on drupal sites... especially the ones that look good... and not so much like a blog. :)
I use the "Outline Block Level Elements" all the time.
Also, the "Display ID & Class Details"
I just heard about another Firefox extension that I'm going to check out too... haven't installed it yet though.
Read moreHow do you feel about using Tables in your layouts?
How do you feel about Flash content?
a designer that is new to drupal
Hi...
I'm new to drupal... maybe like a month ago I "saw the light" :)
I was using other CMS (joomla, wordpress) and although I still need to continue using those apps for existing client projects... I can forsee a future of only-drupal projects.
I'm a long-time perl programmer and also designer... I learned perl "back in the day" because it was the thing to use before PHP came around... and if you wanted to do anything dynamic and interesting... you basically had to do it in perl...
Now there's php... and I've started converting everything over to php as much as I can.
I'm also one of those guys that created his own CMS back before there were any out there to choose from... so, I'm very impressed with drupal and the power it has to do just about anything thrown at it.
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