Designers and Information Architects

We're looking for a very skilled themer to aid us in developing a large scale social networking website for academics. There's also an opportunity to build up a long term relationship to work on several other websites we're developing.
Candidates must be very proficient in theming and have at least an intermediate understanding of custom module development. Being an independant player who doesn't need much guidance is a very important asset we're looking for.

In short, these are the requirements:
* Perfect understanding of Drupal 5's theming layer

Hi,

This week sees the release of iteration 11.

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration11

This week we have made lots of some smaller changes throughout the whole prototype, items that were delayed from iteration 10. For this release, we've paid particular attention to several pages:

1. Marketplace

2. Download and Extend

3. Modules landing page

4. Themes landing page

5. Search_by theme

6. Home page

7. Dashboard

There has been a lot of great feedback on the iteration 10 post, thank you all for your valuable input.

Hi,

This week sees the release of iteration 10 in the Drupal redesign prototype.

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration10

We're currently working with the Drupal Association to further define an advertising strategy for the redesigned d.o. Therefore, we've included a few more ads, but it probably isn't indicative of the final strategy.

The Cherry Hill Company is looking for a Drupal themer.

We pay well for great work.

Our preferences are:

• Staff hire
• Local (Sunny Southern California)

We will consider anyone, anywhere who can demonstrate the ability to get the job(s) done.
We are not looking for agencies or subcontractors, just actual people. That said, you can be contract to hire or straight contract.

I need help with the logic to:

1. Detect whether page.tpl.php is displaying a full node (one only, not listed)
2. Detect if the author has uploaded a userpic, and if yes, display the userpic. If no, display the default userpic

Hi,

Iteration 8 is now available for you to browse and comment on. Last week the redesign took a pretty drastic change in direction so this week's release isn't as massive as we have worked to consolidate changes to the IA, reacting to feedback from the testing and to trends we have established in the community feedback.

Last week Leisa posted her thoughts on why we have moved in this direction and you can read her thoughts here:

http://www.disambiguity.com/drupalorg-redesign-iteration-7-for-your-revi...

Leisa will also be posting again shortly to further discuss our thoughts and reasons for recent changes as well as talking specifically about the modules section.

The link to the latest iteration is below:

http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/iteration8

This post is related to the project plan to get in a few new themes into Drupal 7 core. It will list some of the pros and cons of using the 960 Grid System. If you didn't know, it's what most might define as a "CSS framework". This specific framework was created by Nathan Smith. He states that it was started before Blueprint. I have mistaken it myself as a Blueprint derivative since it is a very similar system. But they both were inspired I believe by the same sources.

Is there a how-to/guide/mod to apply a custom theme to the maintenance page? Any help would be appreciated.

Hello,

Our web firm is having some trouble with some ical integration.

Most events show up in ical as one hour off, while others show up with the correct time.

Any ideas or direct support would be much appreciated.

Please email me directly at james.welsh@ursaminor.com

Thank You!!

At Drupalcon Szeged, I had some discussions with the documentation team and the usability team regarding workflow for getting their feedback injected early into the core development process. I'd like to start a similar discussion here with you folks.

Drupal 7 with its code freeze date of "When it's ready" represents a great opportunity for us all to collectively "kick it up a notch." Key to this is involving many more people in the core development process than we normally have. There are always several relatively minor core patches that affect themers in the queue at any given time, such as add $node_classes to node templates, as well as huge, over-arching efforts such as administration theme in core.
But unfortunately, a lot of these patches stagnate and die, because designers have not traditionally been a group of people that we've served particularly well. I'd like to see that changed.

hi all

Just wanted to get these in front of you for your review - we're currently discussing:

a) the experience strategy for drupal.org, (http://www.disambiguity.com/draft-drupalorg-experience-strategy/) and
b) proposed audience segmentation for drupal.org (http://www.disambiguity.com/insiders-and-outsiders/)

take a look, give us some feedback!
and don't forget you can also participate on Flickr, Twitter and Slideshare!
(more info here: http://www.disambiguity.com/opening-the-floodgates/)

thanks
Leisa

This is easy and quick, nothing fancy, no voting - just post your session idea (title) and your name/contact info and show up to present that day! We have sessions open from 10am-2pm each day (Saturday and Sunday) and each session should plan for 45 minutes each.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/12528 (edit wiki page)

If you can't see or edit the wiki page, be sure to join our group which may be required for editing the wiki page.

This is the tweaked summary of this IRC chat.

We will focus on improving usability for new users.

There will be a usability BoF every day of the conference.

Schedule:

UX Sprint Day 1: Introduction and clearing of main issues
(see List below), probably together with Dries and Jeff Noyes
Wednesday, Aug 27, 4pm Cisco BoF room
(maybe everyone pick a task on end of Day 1)

UX Sprint Day 2: Forming of workgroups, working on tasks and discussion in small groups...

So we want to work on Drupal usability during Drupalcon. I proposed to have 3 BoF sessions during the first 3 days of the conference:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/12972

Let's have a chat in IRC and come up with an agenda and try to focus on the important issues that we could really work on in Szeged.

We will meet in the #drupalcon channel

DrupalCamp Los Angeles 2008, this September 13-14 (2 days) at the Los Angeles Convention Center

We think Drupal is the best open source content management system period and we're not the only ones. Faced with a bigger demand for Drupal developers than even last year... the Los Angeles Drupal Users Group has decided to throw our second annual free community training session to improve the level of Drupal development in Los Angeles. Plus it's a geeky good time!

Drupal Camp LA 2008 will be held from September 13-14th at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Attendance is FREE! RSVP required. Register for the event and sign-up for updates at http://drupalcampla.com

Registration

Registration is now open. If you plan to attend and/or sponsor the Los Angeles Drupal annual DrupalCampLA, then please visit the following URLs.

Attendees register at http://drupalcampla.com

Sponsors - http://drupalcampla.com/sponsorship

Proposed Scheduled Sessions - http://groups.drupal.org/node/12528 (add yourself to present)

World Class Social media team seeks reliable team to extend our current work force. Applicants should have excellent communication and strong documentation skills. Must be able to meet once or twice per week in Oakland or San Rafael.

We are looking for several individuals to handle various portions of development.

We are looking for design consultants, documentation specialists, technical consultants, module developers, theme developers, installation techs and Quality Control personnel.

Improving usability is a top priority for Drupal 7: http://buytaert.net/usability-usability-and-usability

So, it is also a big topic for Drupalcon in Szeged. Besides presentations and sessions we should work out a format for actually getting some stuff done, too. Let's call it a Usability Sprint. We should focus on fixing the actual issues found by the two usability tests.

The best way to propose new UI improvements for Drupal is writing proof-of-concept modules. It would be great to get some of those done during a focussed Usability Sprint.

So, how's this for an ideal usability sprint scenario:

BoF Usability Sprint Day 1

• zoom in on 1 or 2 issues we already decided upon before the conference
  (redo admin categories, modules page, permissions page…)
• bring your ideas and proposals
• discuss the options, decide on 1 or 2 things we can work on.

example:
- do a card sort on the admin categories
- discuss the different 'dashboard' approaches people already use
- choose 2 options we want to compare / test

another example:
- let's pick a nice chunk of core interface text: labels, descriptions, help
- rework them for clarity, consistency and brevity.

Web conference: http://acquia.acrobat.com/keyperformanceindicator/
For Participants: Access Code - 450345#
Dial - (712) 432-1600
International Dial-in Numbers:
Austria - 0820 4000 1552
Belgium - 070 35 9974
France - 0826 100 256
Germany - 01805 00 76 09
Ireland - 0818 270 021
Italy - 848 390 156
Netherlands - 0870 001 920
Spain - 902 886025
Switzerland - 0848 560 179
UK - 0870 35 204 74

This call will be recorded, I apologize for the late or night call for European members, but this was the time when Mike was available.

In preparation for the anticipated release of the redesign RFP, I am soliciting the names and contacts for firms or individuals who are interested in receiving a copy of the RFP and all official communications about the project.

The scope of the project includes:
- research
- information architecture
- design and branding

(The full draft RFP can be found here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11336)

Firms or individuals who can show successful experience in one or more of these areas on projects of similar size are encouraged to participate in the bid process.

Stumbled on this yesterday...
http://www.drupalmuseum.com/

Nice to see a design-oriented showcase of Drupal sites!

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call in: +1 605-475-6000 access 333892

URL: http://connect.studiomodule.com (15 users)

For our bi-weekly call, we'll be reviewing hosting options and hopefully making some progress with project management and training materials.

This week we will be using a conference bridge set up on InstantConference.com. Hopefully that'll eliminate issues with those of you on VoIP or Skype (or the embarrassing limitations of our in-house phone system!)

We'll be doing a conference call on Monday to discuss progress on the Design for Drupal site, and hopefully be able to display some theming work.

Please call in to +1 305-238-8875 to join the call.

I look forward to speaking with you then!

There's lots of Drupal development shop success stories. However, there is not enough information for designers who have considered using Drupal to understand how it works for Designers and how they can use it to grow their own business.

http://drupal.org/node/247985

If you are a designer, with a design portfolio prior to using Drupal, please consider writing a case study for Designers who are considering using Drupal in their practice.

On July 15th & 16th, the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine will host the Higher Education Web Symposium.

This two-day conference will provide tools, tips and techniques for web designers, developers, programmers, and project managers to help us all create better and more usable applications and websites. Jared Spool leads off the all star cast of presenters. Additional scheduled presenters include: Eric Meyer, Dana Chisnell, Stephanie Sullivan, and others!

Got top notch CSS skills and looking for steady Drupal theming work?

We are TopNotchThemes, the premier Drupal theme store. We're looking for 1-2 new members of our team to help create killer Drupal themes. This is an ongoing position that will require a commitment of 20-40 hours per week. We are geographically flexible, but you must have excellent English communication skills.

Ok, icon drawing time! Here's my suggestions for some specs and guidelines to get started with. All feedback welcome.

In the attachment:

• an icon template file for Inkscape
• basic directory structure for organising and categorisation of the icon sources and png renders.

The directories are mostly empty, but have a look in the applications and the mimetypes folder, there are SVG files for:

• forum icons
• calendar icons
• mimetype icons (with PSD sources for 16 and 32px versions which are actually further developed then the SVG!)

Hi, last week at Drupalcon Boston we had an entire track dedicated to design and user experience. As the conference organizer, I specifically designed this track into the conference program to help build momentum within the Drupal design community. Claudio and others took the initiative and created a special new group called the Design and Outreach group.

Hy
I'm new in drupal and I start with drupal 6 to study. I want to make a content type for tables where I can add, remove, or modify fields in a table Can anybody help me with this problem. Any help will be good. Thank's

Kieran - moved back to the designers and information architecture

Here are some steps we need to take in order to get our site up and going. Feel free to put your name next to items you're working on.

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Because of Drupal's special nature, there are alot of us hybrids in the community: designers with an interest in developing and developers with an interest in designing. I would like to create a place/discussions that dealt with this crossover.

I am speaking from the design pov because, well, i am a designer first and coder/developer second (read: way second). Also, I think that we can close the gap by developing several simple things:

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EDIT: There will be a BOF discussion tomorrow, Wed morning at 9:00am here at Drupalcon. Please join the discussion and share your thoughts.

Contract job to apply an new, finished design (eg, Photoshop files, style specs) to a Drupal 5 theme for a new skin for the rSmart website:
http://www.rsmart.com/

We will supply complete Photoshop files and style specs of finished site design developed modularly with Drupal in mind, as well as Drupal 5 instance already configured with modules/content/navigation.

Emphasis on phptemplate/CSS solutions, Drupal without hacks, usability, standards compliance, eventual Drupal 6 migration.

Scheduled delivery before 4/1/2008. Portland, OR area preference, but not required.

Hello, I'm just posting here to let everyone know that the bulk of the new theming handbook is up. Most of it has been rewritten and reorganized. I hope it is accurate and clear enough to get everyone familiar with the theming system.

It's still missing sections on sub-theming (which can get really fancy BTW). I hope to get a few solid explanations and illustrations on the possibilities. Engineless themes and theme engine sections are not there yet but I don't think it's too critical.

JavaScripting could use some help too. I hope someone can fill that in.

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As some of you know, I've recently taken over maintenance of Inline and Image Assist, and initiated the Wysiwyg project. That was not only caused by personal interest, but also to take the necessary steps to realize the long awaited Inline API. You might ask yourself, what those three modules have in common or to do with each other at all: They deal with user input, allow to embed complex contents into a content, and provide an interactive GUI for that. If you already had the chance to work with them, you already know that there is a rather hidden, non-obvious hard-dependency between them.

Although I'd really like to discuss both topics (Inline and Wysiwyg support) separately, the gained experience on these topics enforces us to discuss them concurrently. The following mockup hopefully explains why: (see attachment to view in full size)

Drupal 5 Theming by Ric Shreves

If you are a designer wanting to learn Drupal, this book is for you. It is written by a designer so there are no programming sections full of code. It shows you how you can customize Drupal's HTML and CSS in detail. The book has a good amount of screen shots, charts, and other visual aids that really help the right side of the brain.

Part of the usability efforts is coming up with some Drupal specific icons. Icons show up here and there in Drupal core but more often in contributed modules. We should try to connect and align these efforts. Make them more consistent in application and look/feel.

Styleguides and design tips:

• updated for Leopard: Apple Human Interface Guidelines

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Position Title: Technical Lead
Reports To: Director of Development
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Classification: Professional, technical
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Salary: $70,000 - $120,000 / annual
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Our requirements

5W Mignon-Media is a consulting company for media based in New York city.

We are looking for a experienced Drupal Developer on a contract basis. No geographic limits.

Please send bio + links to : jfm(at)mignon-media(dot)com

No calls.

Hey people
ive just posted a wishlist for the image in core, that walkah were talking bout at the drupalcon barcelona.
i thought it would be a good idea to share this - so we can figure out what we want in this "imageincoreoneandforall" :)

link to the original post at my blog: http://morten.dk/node/174
flickr screens: http://flickr.com/photos/mortendk/tags/drupalimagesincorewishlist/

its still a working draft so spelling errors missing stuff etc ... ;)

Dear Walkah - the wishlist for images in core
original post http://morten.dk/node/174/

Hi. I'd like to document some links to Views2 UI mockups here. Links to the files have been bouncing around in IRC, maybe this can be a place for further thoughts on how Views2 could best present it's functionality to the user. I'll be updating any new screens here.

These all concern the “create new view” part of the UI, looking for ways to present all the available settings in a more compact layout.

first:
- views2-merlinsmockup.png

The Digital team at Hachette-Filipacchi (UK) are currently running an alpha for a fun social-networking (Drupal-flash) application for teen magazine Sugar. We are actively seeking a ninja Drupal themer to help trouble shoot our Alpha by getting the theming right and the overall presentation layer as close to what has been designed.

We are a small team of three (one biz, one developer, one sysadmin) based in Canada and the UK and are looking for a designer with a flair for web2.0 design to help make our new business network (/not/ my open4.org) based on drupal 5.2 look cool for our launch on 1 Oct.

I am looking for a drupal developer to create a new online community serving unpaid carers and caregivers. This site will be a hosted web application that features a community portal, social networking and custom functionality.

Drupal will be used to implement the community and social networking components of this site.

Community

1. RSS news aggregater for carer feeds and blogs

2. Digg style front-page

3. User evaluations and ratings of various service providers (Lawyers, Financial Advisors, Healthcare Service Providers, etc)

Seeking Creative Drupal Web Designers

We are looking to design a new Drupal site for our company, and are seeking someone with experience in designing (not necessarily backend development) Drupal websites.

We are a creative game technology company who is unfortunately aesthetically challenged when it comes to the business of designing websites that look good. We currently have an internal employee setting up the backend of our site for Drupal, but he needs a creative counterpart to make our site the best it can be.

I'm thinking about using the signup module for an online class registration process, but I really need a waiting list feature when the classes reach capacity. Has anyone worked on a feature like this, for signup or anything else?

I found one mention of a wait-list feature here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/4151 but haven't stumbled across it anywhere else. Has anyone else had a need for this feature? I'm open to suggestions, or better alternatives than working with Signup, if anyone has any ideas for me.

Thanks!
Jen

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would let you know about an event I participated in last weekend called Full Code Press, where an Australian and NZ team built a site in 24 hours for 2 charities.

I was on the Aussie team, and we used Drupal as our CMS. We didn't win, but it was a great experience.

I have posted some of my thoughts here.

A heads up on theme development for Drupal 6.

Thanks to the new theme registry by merlinofchaos, there's a nice side effect of being able to intercept theme functions from devel.

What this provides is the ability to list all themable functions used in a page making it a lot more understandable. There is working code but it still needs work. If anyone has ideas on presenting this information please post it. For now it just dumps it into a table but we can get pretty fancy with this, especially with jQuery.

Here's the issue queue: