Drupal Design Camp Boston was a 2-day event held between June 13-14, 2009 at the Stata Center on MIT’s campus. This was the first event focusing exclusively on how to design/create themes for Drupal. Drupal conferences/events in the past were primarily geared for ‘techies’ vs. those who have more of a creative/design background. Admission, lunch and coffee were free courtesy of the event sponsors.
Overall, I felt this was a great event. The speakers were primarily from the ‘techie’ side of the Drupal spectrum so it was a bit difficult to follow theming/design advice being more of a web marketing and design type and not presently having a solid understanding of Drupal’s terminology, but they provided an excellent overview/foundation for me and others like myself to grow upon.
I learned designing for Drupal can become easier by utilizing grid design tools and other utilities such as Blueprint CSS, NineSixty, Skinr, Studio, Yahoo CSS etc. Using a grid system/CSS framework can significantly reduce development time, address browser compatibility issues via built-in functions/code and allow you to be on the ’same page’ as other developers in creating web sites and thus set yourself up to get more support by utilizing well-known development tools.
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