Heading into Chicago’s Midcamp, my coworker Andy and I were excited to talk to other front end developers about using style guides with Drupal. We decided to put the word out and organize a BOF (birds of a feather talk) to find our kindred front end spirits. Indeed, we found a small group of folks …
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Amanda Luker is a front end developer. She joined Advomatic in 2008 and has been theming Drupal websites since Drupal 4.6. She is passionate about component-based design and the movement toward universal design and accessibility. Amanda lives in Minneapolis, raising two independent kids with her partner Bryan. She loves games, activism, repairing broken things, and biking around the city.
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Streamlining Your Design Workflow
Amanda went to Design for Drupal 2014 in Boston last weekend. She brought back a ton of useful information, and now she’s passing it on to you. The complexity of front end development has skyrocketed in complexity over the last few years. And we front end developers are welcoming anything we can do to improve both the …
Read more »A Quick Guide to Free Stuff (Well, Images and Fonts) on the Internet
Amanda went to Design for Drupal 2014 in Boston last weekend. She brought back a ton of useful information, and now she’s passing it on to you. On day one, I attended a detailed explanation of copyright and creative commons. You can see the slides here. One gem of the session: a robust list of places …
Read more »Not Getting Great Client Feedback? Here’s How You Can Help.
Amanda went to Design for Drupal 2014 in Boston last weekend. She brought back a ton of useful information, and now she’s passing it on to you. The organizers of D4D made a conscious effort to gear the first day more toward business, and I relished the opportunity to think more about client communication. I’ve had a …
Read more »Design For Drupal 2014: A Recap
My new (awesome!) coworker Sarah recapped her experiences at DrupalCampWI the other day, so I’m following suit with my thoughts from my new favorite tech camp, Design4Drupal, held in Boston last weekend. This camp is an intimate gathering for front-end developer and designers all experiencing the same pain points working with Drupal and on websites in general. On the surface, that …
Read more »SASS + Compass + Modernizr and browser information detection
Jack, my co-themer here at Advomatic, and I will be doing a series of articles about how we use SASS and Compass on our projects. There are plenty of articles out there on what it is and how to get started, so we wanted to dig a little deeper, and share a few tips and …
Read more »Responsive Design Tips from DrupalCon
Ah, Drupalcon. Three days of panels and BOFs, one Advomatic code sprint, and some very late nights with the Advoteam. Now I’m thrust back into the land of overflowing diaper pails and spaghetti bits everywhere that is work-from-home motherhood. But I promised myself I’d put my DrupalCon notes into a fancy blog post in the …
Read more »Flowing a list view into two columns
Columns. While it may seem like a good idea to a graphic designer, the idea of newspaper-style columns strikes fear in the hearts of themers everywhere. In particular, you may run into an instance where you need a list view to be A-L in the first column, then M-Z in the second column. I’ll walk …
Read more »Build a Filterable Staff Directory in Drupal 6 or 7
Here’s a beginner-level Drupal CCK/Views site building recipe for creating a nicely filterable Staff page. After making one like this for a recent project in Drupal 6, I was both pleased and annoyed to discover how easy it is to build in Drupal 7, now that fields are in core. I’ll show you both ways …
Read more »Designing for Drupal: DOs and DON’Ts
“Drupal sites can look any way you want!” Heard this before? While technically true, it doesn’t mean it’s always the best option. If you are a graphic designer creating comps (compositions) for a Drupal site, here are a few DOs and DON’Ts to follow. Not only can they make theme developers happy, but also they …
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