Omega 4 tutorials - Follow up from 12/10/13 Brevard Meetup
Set up your machine
Drupalpro is a prebuilt linux environment for drupal and is updated on a regular basis. If you are a windows user, you will first need to set up a virtual box with linux. While linux is the preferred choice to theme with Omega 4, you can also use mac but will need homebrew, etc.
Mac user:
You will need to set up RVM to properly use O4. Follow these directions:
http://misheska.com/blog/2013/06/16/using-rvm-to-manage-multiple-version...
Windows user:
- Download and install Virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Block Based layout in Omega 4
Just starting out on omega 4 - which i have to say I'm every impressed by - from the outside - love the code based UI modularisation, SMACSS and serious sass/compass commitment. (I passed by on o3 in favour of zurb foundation)
So O4 is looking good, ut it's PANELS centric, and while I'm trying to be open minded here, I keep coming back to preferring BLOCKS - much out of concerns for my clients - as with http://getlevelten.com/blog/randall-knutson/how-i-learned-stop-worrying-...
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