Design for Drupal is about bringing the community of designers together to be a part of the Drupal community. It’s about enabling designers and themers to do great stuff, coordinate efforts, come up with crazy ideas, and build a movement to make Drupal beautiful.
For specific questions about theming and how to make Drupal look a specific way visit http://groups.drupal.org/theme-development
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IRC: #drupal-design
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design.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.
Defining a Drupal 8 markup gate
Hi there, design team! :)
Back at DrupalCon Chicago, Dries outlined a strategy for Drupal 8 involving a series of "gates" that would help ensure core code quality in a number of different categories: Documentation, Performance, Accessibility, Usability, and Testing. The purpose of gates is to define essentially a set of "checkboxes" which outline the most important aspects to each category, and does so in a way that is both not overwhelming to core developers (list of hoops to jump through is kept as small as possible) and also creates very little additional burden on the team in question (contains sample links to documentation/resources so developers/reviewers can help themselves).
While markup was not on the "official" list, several people pointed out that there would be a lot of value in defining a checklist for markup, too. I totally agree. So let's doo eet!
Read moreCore template conversion methodology - cart before the horse?
The way we have been approaching changes to core templates has, at least afaict, been a piecemeal affair - we change one or two templates at a time working through the various markup issues until such time as we have some broad consensus and ta da, here's our new template.
This bottom-up-esque methodology seems reasonable because we we are not overhauling the entire system at any one time and are just looking to adjust or tweak parts of it.
I think this has worked OK in the past, however I tend to think this methodology has a few drawbacks.
Read moreDesign Initiative IRC Meeting
We are holding our inaugural Design Initiative IRC meeting on the 5th July - if you want to have input into the initiative then be there :)
The meeting will be held in: #design-drupal (see: http://drupal.org/irc for info about IRC).
Agenda
- discuss wireframes (please see: http://drupal.org/node/1205044)
- discuss Design Challenges and how they might work (see: http://groups.drupal.org/node/152239)
- near the end of the meeting we will reveal the design.drupal.org prototype
Times and Timezones
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/meeting?lid=5128581,2618425,2147714,539195...
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Tickets for DRUPALCAMP Berlin 2011, 17th. - 18th. September
Hi everyone,
You can now buy tickets for the Camp at the website: http://www.drupalcity.de/
and at our Facebook's Site: http://www.facebook.com/drupalcamp.berlin
If you want to help us spread the message:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/dcberlin
Hashtag: #dcb11
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dcb11
Thanks and hope to meet you in Berlin
Mar
Read moreOverwritting Search Form
Hello, I am trying to replace the Drupal search page using Panels/Pages,
The site is at undecumpar.com, although the latest iteration is local.
long story short, one of my content type has location, when I use the search form, the result should be ... shoes -> found at XXX company, and a marker on the map shows the location of the XXX company. I managed to parse the arguments to gmap when viewing categories/taxonomy with depth, but I can't seem to make it work with the search page.
I used the existing template in Pages/, http://screencast.com/t/cXWLlBl8Xbl3
Read moreDesign Initiative - Workshop results
Results from the Berlin Design Camp Workshops.
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Improving Drupal themer experience: #DTX
Drupal 7 was propelled, in part, by two major initiatives: improving user experience and developer experience. UX improvements made Drupal easier to use, better organized, and more elegant. DX improvements resulted in a more granular API that allows developers to hook into Drupal to add, remove, or override functionality and output at virtually any step while rendering a page.
But what about TX: themer experience? While Drupal 7 made huge leaps towards improving TX -- a more granular templating system, the Stark theme, support for hooks in the theme layer, the enormously powerful hook_page_alter() -- we still have a ways to go. Work is well under way to add HTML5 support to D7, while many of us are simultaneously brainstorm ways to eliminate all markup from core.
Read moreDesign Camp Berlin - Design Initiative Workshop Photoblog
These images were shot during the Design Initiative workshops - we ran two brainstorming groups concurrently to find answers to some difficult questions regarding the design brief for the new D8 theme design.
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