Designing and creating themes for the Drupal CMS
Date: March 03 2008 - March 06 2008
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Website: http://drupalcon.org
About This Event
Learn about designing for Drupal! Drupal is a powerful and elegant CMS that is growing in popularity for community, e-commerce, social networking, web applications, and blog sites. Add a new skill to your arsenal of web design techniques! Drupal designers are in high demand. There will be sessions and showcases of Drupal site designs, including case studies for creating Drupal themes.
Cost is $195. The conference will be co-located with AIIM content management conference. Proposed session topics are below. We are recruiting presenters!
http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/design-and-user-experience-track-descriptions
Graphic design: "Drupal for Designers"
* Designing for Drupal (Structure of a Drupal site, visualizing your design in Drupal…)
* Introduction to Drupal for designers
* Drupal-friendly CSS tricks
* Making a Drupal site not look like one – new ways of theming common UI elements
Theming Drupal
* Theming for Drupal after starting with Wordpress, Joomla, or static HTML
* Theming Panels/Views
* Converting mock-ups to Drupal themes (case studies)
* Creating themes for Drupal 6
* Security for themers
* Using Color.module to create recolorable themes
Usability/Interaction design: "User friendly Drupal"
* Usability bling in Drupal 6
* User Experience Testing
* Interaction design with JavaScript in Drupal 6
* Building intuitive forms
* Brainstorming: An interface for media handling
* Learning jQuery
Site Planning and Information Architecture: "Building Drupal to Specification"
* A WYSIWYG in Drupal 7: How do we get there?
* Obstacles on localized and internationalized sites
* Improving the Drupal user experience with the best contributed modules
* Site statistics, how to obtain and what we can learn from them
* Identifying and overcoming Drupalisms (odd workflows, …)
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