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Leisa Reichelt - disambiguity: Why Drupal needs a Design Community Manager

Posted 2 days ago

I’ve been working with the Drupal community on design projects for coming up to 12 months now - a splash in the ocean compared to many in the Drupal community but long enough to get a feel for how things work.

The ‘paid’ ... [More] time I have left on the d7ux project is almost run out and I’m left feeling frustrated - not just by the work that I’d like to be able to continue to do on the Drupal 7 User Experience, but also by the great potential for building a critical mass of great designers and UX people in the Drupal community and the different types of activities that could spur this on, and the impact this could have on Drupal adoption and sustainability as an Open Source software project. So much opportunity, so little resource.

Despite the fact that I think there are probably a contingent within the Drupal community who are hoping that Mark & I are just going to go away once we stop getting paid for d7ux, the fact is that this is unlikely to happen any time soon. For various reasons and in various ways, I think we’re both kind of hooked on Drupal, or at least it’s amazing community.

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Social CMS Buzz: DesignBump “The Digg For Designers Website” Launches New Design

Posted 2 days ago

DesignBump a popular social voting site for design related topics have just launched a great new modern looking design of their own. The new design which we think looks fantastic very much improves on previous versions and gives a cool modern look to the site.

DesignBump is a site we at Social CMS Buzz have been [...]

Drupal 7 usability: Media Library Microproject - Update & Feedback Please!

Posted 2 days ago

Maarten Verbaarschot volunteered to take on a Microproject (thanks Maarten!) and for the past few weeks he has been working on interface design for a Media Library for Drupal. There is a great discussion going on in the Drupal.org issue queue that ... [More] you might want to take a look at.

Maarten is currently working on the third iteration of these wireframes but he’d really love it if you can take a look and give him some feedback - anyone who has ever added an image to a web page should be able to have a say on this interface, so don’t hold back!

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WebDevNews.net: Replacing FPSS with Views Slideshow in Drupal – Tutorial

Posted 2 days ago

I have been using FrontPage SlideShow from JoomlaWorks on a number of sites, and would recommend it as a good CSS/PHP route to building a featured slide section that links to promoted content, articles, blog posts, groups, etc. One problem is that it ... [More] is not free, the cost is around $35 for a license to use it on 5 to 10 domains. A second problem is highlighted by the example of releasing an installation profile for Drupal. We can release all of the code under GPL for the project except for FPSS. So, I began working on a conversion of our FPSS slides into Views Slideshow views.

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Greg Harvey: Calling A Custom Or Panel Page From Code (Panels 3.x)

Posted 3 days ago

First of all, I’d like to say hello fellow drupalers! This is my first post here, (and also my first ever blog post!) since Greg opened up drupaler.co.uk as a collaborative blog for Drupal developers.

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DrupalconParis: What food do you want at DrupalCon Paris?

Posted 3 days ago

One of our little helpers (Daniel Harris) launched a wiki page to get more detailed info on what you would actually like to eat during the conference itself.

Please have a look and add your wishes. Of course, it has to be something that a ... [More] great deal of people would eat too.

By doing this, we can then do our very best to be able to offer the most of your wishes possible during the conference, so you like what you see and eat. [Less]

DrupalconParis: You are the event!

Posted 3 days ago

First of all a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has helped us so far with preparing, organizing and spreading the word about DrupalCon Paris 2009, all over Europe and even internationally.

This is your event! You are the community. You are the ... [More] ones who represent Drupal and we want to have you, the representatives, join us in Paris.
So we need your help to spread the word even “louder” and make the DrupalCon even more Drupalicious, for you.

Because:

you, the community, are the core!

you, the community, make the decisions

you, the community, decide where Drupal is going.

Here some carrots, that will lead your way to Paris in September: [Less]

deciphered.net - Drupal development: FileField Paths 1.3

Posted 3 days ago

FileField Paths has just hit version 1.3.

The biggest change in this latest version is an improved modular system allowing for better integration options, demonstrated with support for two new modules, the Image module and the Comment Upload ... [More] module.

Other changes include improved support for the ImageField Crop module, Dutch and Danish translations and various bug fixes.

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Trellon.com: Relationship Management and "Buddy Lists" in Drupal

Posted 3 days ago

At the core of all the hype around "social networking," and "social media," is the fact that "social" websites allow members of a website to connect with each and develop relationships without needing the administrators or content editors to mediate ... [More] these connections. This from the "build and they'll come," school of design and strategy. In any case, even though Drupal is a fundamentally social platform, there is no user-to-user relationship support in the core of Drupal.Read More >>> [Less]

Trellon.com: DrupalCamp Colorado

Posted 3 days ago

The weekend of June 27th and 28th saw over 200 Drupalers, including myself, flock to Denver for the annual DrupalCamp Colorado. Trellon was proud to sponsor the event. The fact that number of attendees doubled since last year shows the growth and ... [More] momentum surrounding Drupal. This year, the event was combined with an Ubercamp- a gathering of Ubercart developers and enthusiasts.Read More >>> [Less]