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
Resources:
Issues that need design review.
Design and themeing drupal core initiatives
IRC: #drupal-design
Twitter: #d4d
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Drupal in a Day - Fairfax, VA (near DC)
The course is designed for individuals who are web savvy, used to using SW applications and online interfaces, and are interested in developing sites using a content management system.
It is also useful for project managers that are interested in learning how Drupal works to be able to effectively communicate with Drupal configurers, themers and developers.
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Frontend United London - 2013
Frontend United, formerly known as Drupal Design Camp, is a yearly European conference that moves from country to country. Its aim is to bring front-end developers, designers and Drupal themers from all kinds of backgrounds closer together and share knowledge, experiences and ideas face-to-face.
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2013 Design for Drupal, Boston
Design for Drupal Boston | June 22-23, 2013 | boston2013.design4drupal.org
Design for Drupal, Boston is an annual web design camp covering all aspects of design, UX, & theming for Drupal websites.
Since 2009, hundreds of Drupal designers, developers and site builders have converged each year at MIT's Stata Center to share ideas, gather design inspiration, and learn new techniques for Drupal design and theme development from some of the brightest minds in the Drupal design community.
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Frontend Drupal Meetup at Media Temple and via WebEx on Tuesday, March 19, 2013: GLADCamp.org Case Study & From Fixed to Responsive
We're excited to announce the next Frontend Drupal Meetup, a meetup focusing on design, usability, accessibility and theming. This month, we're meeting again at Media Temple in Culver City, CA, between 7-9pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Those interested in attending this event remotely can join us via WebEx.
GLADCamp.org Case Study
At this meetup, Sebastian Chedal (@fountainwire) will highlight some of the development tips and techniques used to produce the theme for this year's Greater Los Angeles Area Drupal Camp website at GLADCamp.org.
Sebastian will delve into design, programming and mobile/tablet considerations. The session will cover conditional stylesheets, JavaScript, patching, contributed modules, some PHP and how to override the output of a particular image style with a custom module.
From Fixed to Responsive
Mario Hernandez (@designsdrive) is a Front-End Web Developer and Lead Designer for The U.S. District Court Central District of California, the largest Federal Court in the United States. In 2012, Mario lead the design and development of the Court's public-facing website which is powered by Drupal.
Using a theme provided by the Administrative Office in DC as a starting point, the website was transformed into a responsive website making the first of its kind for a Federal Court. In this session, Mario will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented during this project and will describe the various techniques used to turned a fixed-width theme into a responsive theme.
We're soliciting additional presentations for this meetup. If there's a topic that you'd like give a presentation on, please leave a comment in the comments below. Likewise, if there's a topic that you'd like to learn more about, you're welcome to make a request in the comments below. Thank you!
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D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #32.5
Yes, we are back with the Drupal 8 mobile initiative meetings!
The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at:
Wednesday, March 13th:
San Francisco — 8pm (Tuesday)
London — 4am
India — 9:30am
Taipei — 12pm
Sydney — 3pm
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If you can’t attend at this time, there’s an additional meeting time just 9 hours earlier.
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Join Drupal 8 mobile initiative meetings!
The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at:
Tuesday, March 12th:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
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If you can’t attend at this time, there’s an additional meeting in Asia Pacific timezones at #32.5
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Use of visuals for Drupal events (Branding)
Hi guys,
We've been working on the organization of Drupal Global Training Days in our local community and I was wondering if we could potentially use the official logo for the event's promotion, post on groups and communication around the event.
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Drupal Designers, cast your vote for D4D Boston logo!
In an effort to streamline the design of Design4Drupal (D4D) Boston sites and create a branded experience for our camp, the organizers have been working on a series of logo options that will represent D4D as we move forward with the Camp. We're looking for your feedback as designers within the Drupal community on which logo option you prefer and why. The choice with the most votes will be iterated and used to represent the Boston Design 4 Drupal Camp in 2013 and beyond.
The goal of these logos is to create a system that can:
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D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #28.5
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at:
Wednesday, January 23:
San Francisco — 8pm (Tuesday)
London — 4am
India — 9:30am
Taipei — 12pm
Sydney — 3pm
D8 Mobile Initiative Meeting #28.0
Please join us for our next Mobile Initiative meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held as a Google+ Hangout (online video) with concurrent text chat in #drupal-mobile on IRC at:
Tuesday, January 22:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)
Convert to your timezone
