Drupal Theme

PSD to Drupal Theme

Today I gave an at least marginally successful presentation on Drupal Theme Development at DrupalCamp Atlanta. I hope everyone who attended learned something or at least know where to look for further advice and guidance on building their first Drupal theme. I apologize to anyone who may have wasted their time :)

Whatever your opinion is of my presentation, please give me some feedback!! - http://speakerrate.com/talks/1471-psd-to-drupal-introductory-theme-devel...

Below is my slideshow:

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Drupal Theme Layer Illustraiton

In a few short weeks I will be presenting an introductory theming lesson at DrupalCamp Atlanta. One of the main goals of my session is to have the audience come away from my presentation with a very solid understanding of exactly how the different pieces of a theme and the rest of Drupal work together to produce an HTML page. To that end, I've begun working on a diagram to illustrate the different pieces of a theme and how they work together.

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On the Disappointing Redesign of Drupal.com

There was a little rumble on the Tubes Friday about the redesign of Drupal.com. Mostly I just saw a few folks doing the sycophant dance and expressing how awesome and beautiful the redesign is. These people must have a much different definition of "awesome" than I do. Or perhaps by "awesome" they do not necessarily mean "successful". The redesign is physically attractive, but "awesome" to me includes not only visual stimulation, but also success in creatively solving some problem or meeting some goal.

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Cary Visual Art

Cary Visual Art is a non-profit organization that facilitates patronization of artwork by corporations and the community in Cary, NC.

CVA needed a newly designed website that would not only be easy to update but would also facilitate communication with the community, collaboration amongst the board of directors and streamline the process of accepting and judging artists' entries for their annual sculpture exhibition.

Raleigh Buys Direct

RaleighBuysDirect.com is a small local business specializing in wholesale and discount retail products.

I built this website using Drupal and the Ubercart ecommerce family of modules. The site features easy to manage products with multiple attributes, inventory tracking, shipping quote calculation and payment processing through paypal.

House-Autry Mills

House-Autry Mills is a company that specializes in retail and food-service industry corn meals, biscuit mixes, breaders and other food products familiar to cooks across the Southern US.

House-Autry Mills was in the process of overall rebranding of their packaging by HendrsonBromstead Art of Winston-Salem, NC and needed a new website that would not only communicate the new look of their packaging, but would also be built upon a flexible platform that could accommodate growth in functionality, particularly community-oriented functionality and user-created content.

Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

A friend of mine, Daniel Solis is a really great graphic designer. In his spare time, he designs some serious role-playing games. His biggest venture to date is Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple.

In the process of developing Do, Daniel found that his blog, twitter and flickr feeds all needed one home to live in. In addition, he needed a way to facilitate the community that was growing around his game and tap into that resource to help with play testing and reviewing the mechanics of the game before it's release.

University Towers

University Towers is an alternate student housing apartment complex in Raleigh, NC.

University Towers needed a newly redesigned website that included a content management system. The design of the site needed to reflect the school colors of NC State University, prominently present photographs of the property and display information for both current and prospective residents.