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UPDATE: Slides available at: http://extras.jensimmons.com/designcamp2010/css3.pdf The next generation of CSS is here, and it's being used on thousands of sites. Drupal 7 makes heavy use of CSS3 in both the Seven and Bartik themes. Come learn about the new styles, and how to use them today. ...
This session will cover the advanced usages of 960.gs by pushing theming & grid based layouts further with preprocess functionality in the theme layer. The Omega Theme is currently a leap ahead of any other base theme in Drupal 7, and is continuing to expand new ...
Want to easily create a free Drupal site and make it beautiful without opening up a text editor or using CSS tools? Want an easy way to check out Drupal 7 and get a Drupal 7 site up and running without any installation? We'll show you how to use Acquia's new Drupal ...
A brief look into why design is so important and some basic fundamentals for doing it well. Much that is written and discussed in the Drupal world regarding design is actually not about design at all, but rather about theming. There exists a wealth of free and paid ...
This session will cover the 960.gs grid system and how to implement it in Drupal using the NineSixty theme. Session outline Brief history of grid-based design Philosophy behind 960.gs and how it works Basics of grid-based theming How the NineSixty theme implements and ...
Web design guru Scott Jehl from Boston's The Filament Group speak on Access-Oriented Web Design: Building highly-interactive web apps that work for everyone. Scott specializes in website design and development, is a member of the jQuery and jQuery UI design teams, and runs WriteMaps, an ...
Design 4 Drupal Camp Boston 2012: Add Usability Testing To Your Skill Set presented by Dharmesh Mistry
Web developer James Barnett (jbarnett@babson.edu) of Babson College presents the education sites he's developed using the Open Atrium Installation Profile from Development Seed. One aspect of his work involves building a network of developers interested in working ...
Mira Dontcheva, a researcher at Adobe Systems, explains how Zoetrope can be used to browse back through a Web page's history. She demonstrates a few advanced techniques for looking at historic data and shows how to compare several Web pages over time.
Barry Jaspan of Acquia presents the Dev Cloud, a hosting environment that packages Drupal 7 with a simple user experience featuring git and drush functionality in a drop n'drag interface -- a wow by any measure. The audio is good but the visual is spotty, so I'm not sure if the wow comes ...
Benji Fisher presents the site he built for the Three Mile Island Camp using the Danland theme, and demos the multicolumn filter available in his sandbox.
The websites that we design and create today will live on for the next 2 to 5 years. What will the world of web design look like in the future? How will innovations like the iPhone/iPad, Android, and web-enabled devices change the landscape? Data is becoming more ...
