North America

Rethinking Responsive Building Techniques with Drupal

conference: Drupalcon Denver 2012

We’ve had over a year to think about how “Responsive web design” affects us. In this session, we’ll think about the limitations we’ve placed on ourselves with our current layout 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.

Become an IA superstar: building essential navigation in Drupal

conference: Drupalcon Chicago 2011

Learn how to slice, sort, expand, and tweak Drupal’s menus in flexible ways to build a usable Information Architecture for your website.

What’s new in Drupal 7 theming?

conference: Drupalcon San Francisco 2010

Drupal 6 introduced an enhanced templatIng system. For the past 2 years, the community has been striving to make our theming system really shine. But not only has the system been improved with easier to override defaults and more powerful functions, our designers have also given Drupal a make-over. Right from the installation screen, you can see that Drupal cares about the first impression it makes to the design community at large.

Drupal 7 here we come!

conference: Drupalcon San Francisco 2010

A panel of Palantiri come to you to discuss what they're thinking, planning, and anticipating in D7.

Default theme implementations: a guide for module developers who want sweet love from Morten and JohnAlbin

conference: Drupalcon San Francisco 2010

You only need to peak into the Views module's issue queue to see horror stories about trying to design sane default theme implementations that appeal to designers and themers. “Needs more classes!” “Too many divs!” “This CSS is awful!” “Earl, make me a pony!”

Architecting the theme layer

conference: Drupalcon San Francisco Core Developer Summit

Architect it! And then build it! We need a top-to-bottom design.

New Adventures in Drupal Theming

camp: Drupal Camp Chicago 2009

In this session I’ll present a roadmap to learning Drupal Theming. You won’t learn everything about Drupal theming, but you will learn that you don’t need to know everything in order to start building Drupal themes.

D7 Theming: so awesome you’ll need a change of pants

camp: Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2009

The changes to the Drupal 7 Theme layer aren’t revolutionary, but there are so many improvements, you may have trouble… ah… controlling yourself.

Making Drupal Dance: Techniques for Non-Obvious Theme Manipulations

conference: Design4Drupal Boston 2009

Quick tips for Drupal theming.

How to Kill Bluemarine: New Core Themes for Drupal 7

conference: Drupalcon DC 2009

Drupal 6 has a new theming layer that is wonderfully flexible and cool. And, yet, the themes that come bundled with Drupal 6 are the same old, boring ones we’ve had for a very long time.

But now we have a plan! We’ve outlined the steps we need to take in order to kill Blue Marine. During this session, we’ll present the current state of our plan, outline the quick steps we’ll need to make Drupal easier to theme, and discuss how to engage the larger CSS and Design community.