Boston USA 2008-03-07 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, …) 391 MA The design and user experience track for the Drupal conference will feature 16 design and user experience tutorials, panels, and presentations over 4 days. Drupal designers are in high demand! 2008-03-03 false http://drupalcon.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/391 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/391/drupalcon-175.png blog, cms, community, drupal, graphic design, interaction design, joomla, open source, social networking, templates, theme, usability research, user experience, web design, wordpress Pittsburgh USA 2008-10-20 PodCamp Pittsburgh is a FREE community UnConference, run by and for people who create, enjoy or are interested in learning more about social media - blogs, vlogs, audio podcasts, web video, content networks and new media monetization. WHO: New media experts, new media creators, aspiring new media creators, communications and PR personnel, and you! Newbies to Experts welcome – sessions for all levels! Nearly 250 people attended PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 in August 2008. PodCamp Pittsburgh 3 will take place on October 18 and 19, 2008 at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, with a meet-and-greet the evening of October 17 at Alpha Labs in South Side. INFORMATION and FREE REGISTRATION: http://www.PodcampPittsburgh.com 536 PA PodCamp Pittsburgh is a FREE community UnConference, run by and for people who create, enjoy or are interested in learning more about social media - blogs, vlogs, podcasts, web video, and new media. 2008-10-17 false http://www.PodcampPittsburgh.com/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/536 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/536/logo.gif blog, new media, pittsburgh, podcamp, podcasts, social media, vlog