BDUG: John Albin: Rethinking responsive building techniques with Drupal

Thanks to our friends at ChapterThree, we've snared "Drupal-famous" speaker John Albin this month. This promises to be a great session including responsive strategies in Drupal 7 and a look at where things are heading in Drupal 8.

We’ve had over a year to think about how “Responsive web design”
affects us. The relatively straightforward techniques described in
Ethan Marcotte’s book and A List Apart article won’t be covered in
this session. Instead, we’ll think about the limitations we’ve placed
on ourselves with our current building techniques and how to break
free from them. Break free from regions. Break free from CSS
limitations. Break free from the difficulties inherit in responsive
design. In this session, I'll describe practical implementation
techniques for responsive design using CSS (or Sass/Compass) and
Drupal themes and modules, including Zen, Fences, Field Collection,
Panels, Chaos Tools and Display Suite to name…erm… quite a few. We’ll
cover these topics:

- Building techniques for responsive layouts:
  - Content first (aka Mobile First, aka Semantic HTML source order)
  - The Adjacent Sibling Rule
  - The Opposing Float
  - The Lasso
  - The Corset Variant
  - The Absolute Exception
  - The Violator
- Gutters with media queries
- How not to pick breakpoints
- Improving front-end performance by configuring lean, semantic
   markup with Fences
- How to make your main content be responsive with Page Manager

Berkeley Drupal Users Group: 4/23/12 12-1:30pm
WHERE: UC Berkeley Campus: Barrows Hall 60 (basement room)
MAP: http://groups.drupal.org/berkeley/map