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.
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Which weekend can you attend a "Design for Drupal" conference in Los Angeles in February, 2011?
Drupal Design Camp LA conference on February 5-6, 2011 in Los Angeles, California
Design for Drupal comes to LA! The first annual Drupal Design Camp LA conference is officially scheduled for February 5-6, 2011, in Los Angeles, California.
Registration for Drupal Design Camp LA is done at http://2011.ddcla.org and you're welcome to sign up. Registering for the conference is as simple as signing up for an account. We'll be launching the full site soon with information about the venue, local hotels, restaurants and coffeeshops, and begin accepting session proposals.
The Drupal Design Camp LA conference follows in the footsteps of the Drupal Design Camps at Standford, in Boston and in Prague, which have successfully brought designers, themers, developers, information architects and usability engineers together. These conferences are just like DrupalCamps but offer sessions and presentations specifically about design and theming topics such as grid design, usability testing, sustainable, additive approaches to theming and so on.
What's Design for Drupal?
Translating a design into a Drupal "theme" is often a high barrier and it has been difficult and costly for many designers to have a "design-driven approach" to Drupal. Feedback from the design community has often focused on the difficulties of designing for the Drupal theme system, which combines several programming disciplines and languages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.
Design for Drupal is a relatively new movement in the Drupal community to help make Drupal more friendly and approachable to designers, information architects and usability engineers, and in general anyone who is interested in customizing Drupal's output to the web page. At its core, Design for Drupal is about inviting the larger design community together to be a part of the Drupal community and enabling designers, usability engineers, developers, information architects and themers to coordinate efforts, come up with creative ideas and work towards making Drupal easier to use and look beautiful.
Read moreWho's interested in a "Design for Drupal" conference in Los Angeles in February, 2011?
As one of DrupalCamp LA's lead organizers, my sense is that DrupalCamp LA has moved out of the realm of what a camp is and into the realm of large summits and conferences. I talked a little bit about this in a recent LA DrupalCast episode, and while I definitely thought DrupalCamp LA 2010 was a lot of fun and a moderately successful event, I think DrupalCamp LA occupies a strange place in the spectrum of camps, summits and cons.
If you haven't been to camps other than DrupalCamp LA or if you're wondering what this "Design for Drupal" stuff is, please bear with me and read the entire post and my comments below.
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To info or not to info, that is the question
What am I talking about?
I'm talking about a rather contentious debate over whether or not we should have stuff in the info file that does stuff, such as making a themers life easier, and not forcing them to learn advanced PHP, for example...
Allow a theme to set itself as an admin or frontend theme exclusively
Conditional Styles in .info files, since drupal_add_css has it
Overridden module stylesheets are loaded unconditionally
What 'title' would you class yourself as if you described your Drupal involvement?
D8 Design Initiative - Requirements and Process
Last updated by EvanDonovan on Wed, 2011-09-07 12:22
In response to Core theme selection and development process. The vision here is to outline the selection process and requirements for the next core theme which we hope will be added to Drupal 8.
During Drupal 7 cycle there were many issues surrounding the selection process and in D8 we would like the see the selection centered principally on the design and not the end built theme (as it was in D7).
Underlying Principles
- Choose the next theme based on the design (before the theme is built).
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:
<
div class="block block-block ">
<
div class="block-inner clear-block">
Read moreDesign for Drupal: The Wiki
Last updated by yoroy on Thu, 2011-02-10 01:22
At the recent & awesome DrupalCon Copenhagen we had two Birds of a Feather meetings regarding what can be done to involve more designers in the Drupal project.
Discussion can be found here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/90274
Four Personas = Design for Drupal
At the recent & awesome DrupalCon Copenhagan we had two Birds of a Feather meetings (where like minded people meet to have an an informal discuss) regarding what can be done to involve more designers in the Drupal project.
To help aid these discussions we started from the very beginning and created 4 personas. There personas were intended to represent the various types of people who are potentially frustrated with the state of design in Drupal.
Read moredrupalcon Copenhagen meetup (2!)
Following on from "Design 4 Drupal - no more fugly!" we are having another meetup at Drupal Con.
Come and share your thoughts on the role of design and designers in the Drupal project.
http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/design-drupal-2
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