Calendar http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/user_calendar/499/calendar/2009-09-01--P5D en DrupalCamp Paris 4 http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupalcamp-paris-4 <p>During the first day of the first DrupalCon in Paris, DrupalCampParis4 will be held : an event open for all, conference participants as well as anyone who would like to show up (but do register... we have to know how many people come)! Alongside, Frederic Marand, an expert trainer will hold a Views 2 for coders 4 hours hands-on training workshop.</p> <p><strong>The Camp</strong></p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 1 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Community Driven Community drivin&#039; </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupalcamp-paris-4#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:38:15 +0000 OriPekelman 2064 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org The State of Drupal http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/state-drupal <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 2 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> to-do </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/state-drupal#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:07:29 +0000 dries 558 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Real-time End-User Theme Configuration http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/real-time-end-user-theme-configuration <p>By changing a theme's settings, an end-user can add their logo or mission statement, change some colors if the theme's designed to work with the color module, or adjust any other settings the themer has made available. These could be fields that allow you to change specific pieces of text or modify the page-layout. But what if you have a lot of custom settings - say about 300 - and you want to see the changes made to these settings in real time? Well with a little help from jQuery and jQuery UI, you can add this type of functionality to your theme.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> I am the Assistant Director of Communications and Web Technologies for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. I&#039;ve also built and/or themed Drupal sites for other groups at Harvard and beyond. I came across Drupal 3 years ago and I&#039;ve have been hooked ever since. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/real-time-end-user-theme-configuration#comments theming Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:50:36 +0000 maureen 1244 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Drupal 101 http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-101 <p>This session will orient people on how to get started with Drupal. We'll address installation using the Acquia Drupal Stack installers, then dive into some fundamentals such as:</p> <p>- how does Drupal work (at a very high level)<br /> - how do you begin to build a site. Adding pages, inserting navigation<br /> - how do create roles and grant privileges<br /> - how do you extend Drupal's features (finding and installing modules)<br /> - how do you create ad's or specific call outs on your site<br /> - how can you organize information on a page - like show a list of events<br /> - how do you theme a drupal site.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 2 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Jeff Noyes is a user experience designer for Acquia. In this role, Jeff helps Acquia ensure customer facing information is easy to use and understand. Jeff aims to accelerate Drupal usage by contributing to its advancement and helping brand new users get up to speed. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-101#comments beginner Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:30:07 +0000 jeffnoyes 761 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Explore the glory of Drupal 7's improved render and theming systems http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/explore-glory-drupal-7s-improved-render-and-theming-systems <p>One focus of Drupal 7 has been to empower module developers and theme developers to more easily achieve the look the want for their final output. We added <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_page_alter/7">hook_page_alter()</a> where a themer or module developer can alter any part of the page just before it is rendered. At this point, the page is still a raw array that can be easily manipulated.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Moshe Weitzman has been a consistent contributor to Drupal core and Contrib since November 2001 (i.e. before drupal.org was born). As such, he has pretty much touched the whole core code. He maintains the Organic groups, devel, and drush projects, the core bootstrap code, and the groups.drupal.org web site. He is the #1 Drupal developer on Ohloh. He is also a member of the Security team and a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/explore-glory-drupal-7s-improved-render-and-theming-systems#comments core module development theme Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:26:13 +0000 weitzman 901 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org 45 Modules in 45 Minutes - the Best Modules You're Not Using http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/45-modules-45-minutes-best-modules-youre-not-using <p>Most Drupal developers are more than familiar with the top 25 Drupal modules in terms of usage (Views, CCK, ImageCache, etc...) But what about the other few thousand modules? Don't have enough hours in the day to sift through them? Take this opportunity to get a vetted list and practical rundowns of each.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Mike Anello is a partner in DrupalEasy.com and has been developing Drupal sites for over 3 years. He specializes in Drupal training, theme integration, project management, and custom module development. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/45-modules-45-minutes-best-modules-youre-not-using#comments modules theming Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:57:15 +0000 ultimike 1174 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Sustainable theming: How to take a vacation. http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/sustainable-theming-how-take-vacation <p>We all want to take vacations, and we all want our sites to grow beyond without us holding its hand, or at least some of us do.</p> <p>JohnAlbin and I will be co-presenting a session on how to think strategically about your theming so that it can stand on its own legs. At Palantir.net we strive to reduce the amount of bugs related to theming after a site has launched. It can be difficult to do, but with a little patience and planning you can build a theme that works on its own from a toolkit of design elements.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Colleen Carroll is Lead of Theming team at Palantir.net She is also the maintainer of the Austin theme. John Wilkins is a Senior Themer at Palantir.net and the maintainer of the Zen theme (among other things). </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-co-presenters"> <div class="field-label">Co presenters:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/drupal-users/johnalbin" title="View user profile.">JohnAlbin</a> </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/sustainable-theming-how-take-vacation#comments sustainability theming Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:22:45 +0000 caroltron 565 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Communicating design - Sketching your way to understanding. http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/communicating-design-sketching-your-way-understanding <p>“Clear communication between web developers and their clients — and among members of the development team — is key to the succes of any web project.”</p> <p>Where code is low-bandwidth and can generally be well discussed and assessed with words, design is very much high-bandwidth. You just can't discuss it using words alone. So, let's draw some pictures!</p> <p>Through a case study of how I worked with a development team redesigning a community web site, we'll discuss how sketching can help in two ways:</p> <ul> <li>Defining the right question to ask.</li> <li>Finding the best possible answer.</li> </ul> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Roy Scholten is an interaction designer based in Hilversum, The Netherlands. He&#039;s one of the people working on a better Drupal user experience. He runs his own small design studio at yoroy.com </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/communicating-design-sketching-your-way-understanding#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:50:38 +0000 yoroy 1205 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Basics of making a mobile website with Drupal http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/basics-making-mobile-website-drupal <p>Going mobile is gaining importance and increasing numbers of users are accessing your website through their mobile devices. Still little amount of sites are prepared for this behaviour and offer non-optimal experiences.</p> <p>With a few simple steps this experience can be optimized, and this is where this session will be about! How to go mobile with your existing Drupal installation, or design your Drupal site specifically for mobile.</p> <p>The session will guide you through the basics of making a mobile website, the tools, pitfalls, etc...</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Tom is software architect at the open source company Siruna. After having worked as a project and research coordinator at the Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology with a focus on interactive television, recommender systems and mobile user experience, Tom joined Siruna. He has been working on the open source parts and integration with Drupal. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/basics-making-mobile-website-drupal#comments drupal mobile mobile tools siruna Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:59:06 +0000 twom 990 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Projets Multilingues, multilingual internationlized projects too! http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/projets-multilingues-multilingual-internationlized-projects-too <p>It all sounds so easy. Your client says "Can you create a multilingual social networking multimedia website?" and you say "Sure, Drupal can do that!" Give me a couple weeks... or months maybe. Off to the projects page for i18n, og, and a bunch of other modules. </p> <p>Ok, we knew this wasn't going to be exactly easy. But why is it this hard!?</p> <p>This presentation will be more about implementing a large multilingual website, the best practices, and pitfalls of mixing modules, than about any one technology, but we will alsotalk about the state of i18n.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Doug Green is a 3 year veteran of Drupal with many credits to his name, including coder, views fast search, and the 6.x search patch. Doug graduated from Cornell University Engineering and has over 20 years experience as a Software Developer. Doug is a partner with CivicActions, one of our DrupalCon sponsors. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-co-presenters"> <div class="field-label">Co presenters:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/drupal-users/damien-tournoud" title="View user profile.">Damien Tournoud</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/drupal-users/zstolar" title="View user profile.">z.stolar</a> </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/projets-multilingues-multilingual-internationlized-projects-too#comments internationlization Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:52:11 +0000 douggreen 728 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Functional Fips: PHP basics for themers http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/functional-fips-php-basics-themers <p>There are a lot of <a href="http://drupal.org/node/45471">theme snippets</a> available in the Theme Guide. There is not, however, a lot of information about PHP which is the language that makes up these snippets. If you're tired of copying, pasting and praying and are ready to understand some of the magic behind those snippets, this session is for you!</p> <p>In this session you will learn how to manipulate and master:</p> <ul> <li>The very, very basics of PHP and the popular theming engine PHPtemplate</li> <li>Variables and tpl.php template files</li> </ul><div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Emma Jane Hogbin has been working as a Web developer since 1996. She is well known in the Drupal community not only for her technical knowledge, but also for her engaging and humorous means of bringing Drupal to a wider audience—such as the Drupal socks and their GPLed pattern. Her wildly successful theming book, Front End Drupal (co-authored with Konstantin Kaefer), was launched this spring. Emma volunteers with the Drupal documentation team and blogs at emmajane.net. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/functional-fips-php-basics-themers#comments theming Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:55:50 +0000 emmajane 586 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Social + Media: What We Need Next http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/social-media-what-we-need-next <p>The Media Revolution launched with NCSA Mosaic has been underway for 16 years and I have been a front line advocate for the web and social computing throughout. I believe that "the great restructuring" underway requires us to think more holistically about how to think about how people and organizations are using Drupal. We need to bring a new perspective to Drupal development in order that it can serve the greatest good. I also believe the answer really is "42" so perhaps I am living in a bit of fantasy.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 3 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Chris Heuer launched his first interactive agency, Guru Communications, out of South Beach, Florida in 1994. He has since helped numerous start-ups with go-to market strategies, product design, web site development, online marketing campaigns, e-commerce and what is now widely referred to as Social Media. Chris formed Social Media Club in March, 2006 to educate professionals on the greater significance of what it means to be social and how media production/consumption has changed. To this end, Social Media Club has local groups around the world promoting media literacy, encouraging the sharing of lessons learned, promoting industry standards and discussing questions of ethics. More recently, Chris launched a new kind of ad-hoc consultancy appropriately called AdHocnium. Together with a senior team of &quot;Creative Catalysts&quot; from around the world, AdhHocnium developes innovative growth strategies for global client that leverages emerging technology and social media. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/social-media-what-we-need-next#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:38:24 +0000 chrisheuer 1934 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Image module in core it's <strike>almost</strike> real! http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/image-module-core-its-strikealmoststrike-real <p>The simplest things can be so hard. Drupal core has never had a way to upload an image and then output a thumbnail it. Of course there are dozens of solutions for making thumbnails in the contributed modules repository, but it will be a huge benifit to new users to have this handling out of the box. The time is at hand for making Drupal's core, default installation come with kick-ass image manipulation abilities. Come see what we've got and we're headed in Drupal 7.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Nate Haug is a Lullabot. He&#039;s spent extensive efforts in improving the user interface and image handling abilities of Drupal. He maintains FileField and ImageField, as well as several other media-based modules. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/image-module-core-its-strikealmoststrike-real#comments core image media Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:50:01 +0000 quicksketch 1247 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Web Typography Fundamentals: From Em Dash to Hanging Punctuation http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/web-typography-fundamentals-em-dash-hanging-punctuation <p>Typography is at the very heart of the web. Unfortunately, web typography generally sucks. This presentation will help anyone – developer or designer – not suck at typography. From Em-dashes to hanging punctuation, we'll cover simple fundamentals of good typography for the web.</p> <p>What will be covered in this presentation:</p> <ul> <li>Typographic Structure</li> <li>Hierarchy and language</li> <li>Whitespace and typographic colour</li> <li>Typesetting on the web</li> <li>Tables, lists and forms</li> <li>@font-face and font embedding</li> </ul> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Mark Boulton is a designer from the UK and runs the design studio behind the recent redesign of Drupal.org and Drupal 7 UX (working alongside UX designer, Leisa Reichelt). His life outside of Drupal consists of working for other clients (yes, we do that!) such as ESPN, Warner Brothers and the BBC. He also writes the odd book, runs workshops and speaks at conferences. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/web-typography-fundamentals-em-dash-hanging-punctuation#comments design designers themers Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:17:23 +0000 markboulton 1194 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org All youre (x)html(5) are belong to us! http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/all-youre-xhtml5-are-belong-us <p>Drupal comes with a lot(!) of predefined markup &amp; css.<br /> Modules are adding styles and markup to the themes and so themers have limited control over whats going on inside the theme - that works well for some themers - others not so much.. or to put in other words:</p> <p>"WTF does all this <em>bib</em> markup do in my <em>bib</em> site - aaargh for <em>bib</em> sake, Gimme lean mean mother <em>bib</em> 'ing markup"</p> <p>The Mothership is a theme thats build in the opposite way normal drupal practice: clean out "useless" markup &amp; remove classes that clutters op what should be beautiful source.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> mortendk is a markup loving design geek straight outta copenhagen who loves all finer things in life: Drupal, Rock n Roll, bulldogs, CSS, the GF, XHTML, beer tasting, metal \m/, &amp; nerdy stuff (miniature painting!) and fiddling with themes Runs a one man theming army shop: geek Röyale Been involved with the D. since 4.7 - and still loves it, even that he whines abit about the lack of designers in the D. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/all-youre-xhtml5-are-belong-us#comments markupmarine theming Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:10:43 +0000 mortendk 1024 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Making Drupal Dance: Techniques for Beautiful, Core-worthy Designs http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/making-drupal-dance-techniques-beautiful-core-worthy-designs <p>For too long the Drupal community has lamented the lack of high-quality themes that are freely available. But the solution to this problem is much simpler than we’ve ever thought. <strong>We need learn how to communicate with the Design community and make Drupal dance!</strong></p> <p>[ Edit: Given the state of the miscommunication between Designers and Developers just before Drupalcon Paris, I’ve re-written the first half of my presentation to talk about the improperly-named “Designer vs. Developer” problem. ]</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> In the Drupal community, John is best known as JohnAlbin, the maintainer of the Zen theme, which is a highly-documented, feature-rich “starter” theme with a powerfully flexible CSS framework. John currently works with a bunch of really cool Drupal developers and themers at Palantir.net. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/making-drupal-dance-techniques-beautiful-core-worthy-designs#comments design Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:29:18 +0000 JohnAlbin 566 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Drupal Ingredients for your Website Dish, or Modules You Should Use on Every Site http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-ingredients-your-website-dish-or-modules-you-should-use-every-site <p>With thousands of community contributed modules on drupal.org you have a wealth of features available to use, but how do you know which ones are right for your site? We'll be giving a brief overview of the modules which are just so handy you'll probably want to use them on most of the sites you build. We'll talk about modules that fit into recipes for certain website "flavors", such as community and social networking, media, and commerce.</p> <p>You can view the session slides at <a href="http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcv55663_82d9m66bdz" title="http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcv55663_82d9m66bdz">http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcv55663_82d9m66bdz</a></p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 2 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Brad (beeradb) Bowman began working in backend systems development at Aten Design Group in 2003, while still in college. Today, Brad handles implementation and customization of backend systems at every stage of Aten projects. Ben (coltrane) Jeavons is a senior developer at pingVision, a consultancy providing interactive design and development services for all media, specializing in Drupal. Greg (greggles) Knaddison is a partner at Growing Venture Solutions a full service website consultancy based in Denver and New York. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-co-presenters"> <div class="field-label">Co presenters:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/drupal-users/greggles" title="View user profile.">greggles</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/drupal-users/beeradb" title="View user profile.">beeradb</a> </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-ingredients-your-website-dish-or-modules-you-should-use-every-site#comments intro modules Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:11:48 +0000 coltrane 915 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Job Fair http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/job-fair <p>Due to the rapid growth of our preferred CMS, many Drupal companies are looking for new employees. Developers, designers, themers, whether you are a wise experienced ninja or a young crazy student you may find your next job here.</p> <p>The job-fair will take place Thursday, the 3rd of September, at the Maison Internationale from 5pm to 8pm.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 3 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Blogger, Trainer, Marketer </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/job-fair#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:05:10 +0000 Ineation 2077 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Functional Interactive Design http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/functional-interactive-design <p>Ever walk up to a door and pull on the handle, only to discover the door is push-only? Do you really know how to operate your clock-radio? Doors may be pretty, clocks may look cool, but when we have to actually use them, the measure of their design changes.</p> <p>Same with websites. A website may be pretty at first blush, but can you find what you're looking for? Can you do what you want to do? Can you even figure out what you're supposed to do?</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 2 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Laura Scott is President and Creative Director of pingVision, an interactive design and development company founded in 2005, based in Boulder, Colorado. Laura has been designing websites since 1995, working in video, film, television, and multimedia. Since 2004 she has been working with Drupal almost exclusively for web development. Laura has presented on design and technology at BlogHer 2006, OSCMS 2007 and DrupalCon Boston 2008. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/functional-interactive-design#comments beauty design favorite-of-the-king function information architecture interaction design module development user experience Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:04:49 +0000 Laura Scott 861 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Understanding Drupal 6 Themes http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/understanding-drupal-6-themes <p>Drupal 6 is a powerful system that has a steep learning curve for those new to it. The included theme system is no exception to this. As with any complex system, the key to using it effectively is to understand it. The purpose of this session is to increase your understanding to get you on your way towards creating a look all your own.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 2 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Al Steffen is the Lead Themer for pingVision, LLC based in Boulder, CO USA and has been building custom Drupal themes for over 2.5 years and have taken advantage of almost every facet of the system. He also created and co-maintain the Studio Theme Pack with Matt Tucker. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-video-slide"> <div class="field-label">Video and Slides:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AUvHZLXzMJuBZGZrc3B2NzdfNmdxNDRmemNy&amp;hl=en">Video and slides</a> </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/understanding-drupal-6-themes#comments beginner css design drupal 6 javascript markup php theme understanding Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:58:52 +0000 Al Steffen 1012 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Semantic Web fundamentals http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/semantic-web-fundamentals <p>The World Wide Web is the most successful linked information system that has ever existed. Hidden away in the original 1989 CERN memo proposing the Web are several ideas that are only now reaching fruition via W3C's RDF technology stack. This talk will show in practice how the full 1989 vision for the Web is being realised using RDF-based technologies (RDF/RDFa, SKOS, SPARQL, FOAF, OWL), and how the two concepts of information <em>linking</em>, and information <em>layering</em> are all you really need to understand a powerful suite of tools and standards for Web-based data sharing.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 4 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Dan Brickley is best known for his work on Web standards in the W3C community, where he helped create the Semantic Web project and many of its defining technologies. He currently divides his time between &quot;future of TV&quot; research at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, advisory work for the UN&#039;s Food and Agriculture Organization, and nonprofit activities around the &#039;Friend of a Friend&#039; project. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/semantic-web-fundamentals#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:24:48 +0000 DanBrickley 1749 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org jQuery for designers and themers http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/jquery-designers-and-themers <p>Slides are available at <a href="http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=drmcbw4_1816qv2fkc7">TinyURL.com/jQuery-Designers (Google Docs)</a>.<br /> Video is available from <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/jQueryfordesignersandthemers">Archive.org</a><br /> Sample code is available at <a href="http://drupal.org/project/jq4dat">Drupal.org/Project/jQ4DaT</a>.<br /> Commentary and post-session notes are available at <a href="http://civicactions.com/blog/2009/sep/10/sample_code_jquery_designers_and_themers_drupalcon_paris_2009">the CivicActions.com blog</a>.</p> <p>Funk up your sites and designs with jQuery.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> At CivicActions, Bevan Rudge is a Drupal developer, software engineer and themer. Bevan is an advocate of FOSS, developer &amp; contributor to Drupal core &amp; contrib, member of the Drupal Association, local DUG enthusiast, usability nerd, snowboarder, mountain-biker, wannabe kitesurfer, wannabe sailor and beer-drinker. Bevan was a mentor to Jimmy &quot;Boombatower&quot; Berry in the Drupal Google Summer of Code 2008 project for a Usability Testing Suite for Drupal. Bevan was a student in the Season of Usability for improvements to node forms and presented on Scalable Theming at DrupalCon Boston 2008. Some of Bevan&#039;s other visible work includes the Witness Hub Map, DrupalSouth event &amp; website, Just Cause theme, Rare Planet theme, ACLU TV series website, Feriana online fashion store, So Much World website, PHPlist websites and other projects. Bevan tweets on twitter, blogs at CivicActions.com and Drupal.geek.nz and works from his home in Christchurch, New Zealand. And just in case that wasn&#039;t enough, Bevan also studies computer science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/jquery-designers-and-themers#comments jQuery Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:48:48 +0000 Bevan 591 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org What's new in Panels 3 http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/whats-new-panels-3 <p>Panels 3 was an unexpected but necessary major overhaul of Panels 2. In fact, it should probably not really be called Panels, as it is just a tiny piece of it. Instead, Panels 3 is really a Page Manager and it gives you vast amounts of control over your site.</p> <p>See how this works, how Panels is extended, and how this is really just the tip of a very large iceberg.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Earl Miles is well known within the community for his contributions to the Drupal projected, particularly Views, Panels and improvements to the theming system in Drupal 6. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/whats-new-panels-3#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:50:47 +0000 merlinofchaos 1212 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Building blocks for your module's UI http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-blocks-your-modules-ui <p>There are more interface patterns available to Drupal module developers then ever before. Drupal has standars for writing code. But what about the interface?</p> <p><strong>Tabs, accordions, fieldsets, overlays, hover links etc. When to use which?</strong></p> <p>Join Bojhan Somers and Roy Scholten from the UX-Team for a tour of the available options and some advice on when to use each one. Consider this talk the kick-off for getting our ui-pattern library in shape. It's been asked for a lot.</p> <p>We will cover the following topics :</p> <ul> <li>UI-Pattrens</li> </ul><div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Bojhan Somers is UX-Team member and has been active in Drupal&#039;s usability the past two years. Works as User experience consultant on (web)applications, websites and devices. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-co-presenters"> <div class="field-label">Co presenters:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/drupal-users/yoroy" title="View user profile.">yoroy</a> </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-blocks-your-modules-ui#comments design favorite-of-the-king usability user experience Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:58:54 +0000 Bojhan 1185 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Designing Grid Systems Does Not Begin And End With 960 http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/designing-grid-systems-does-not-begin-and-end-960 <p>Grid Systems should underpin any well-considered web layout. Applying a cookie-cutter approach to this – but using a CSS framework such as Blueprint or 960 (and the Drupal 960 theme) – means you're cutting out a vital process in the design of your site: the design of the grid system itself.</p> <p>This presentation will detail my grid design process. Throughout the presentation, I'll cover:</p> <ul> <li>The typographic grid: its history, usage and application on the web</li> <li>Different types of grid: modular, columnar, hierarchical, rational, irrational, </li> </ul><div class="field field-type-text field-field-session-day"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Day:&nbsp;</div> Day 2 </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Mark Boulton is a designer from the UK and runs the design studio behind the recent redesign of Drupal.org and Drupal 7 UX (working alongside UX designer, Leisa Reichelt). His life outside of Drupal consists of working for other clients (yes, we do that!) such as ESPN, Warner Brothers and the BBC. He also writes the odd book, runs workshops and speaks at conferences. </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/designing-grid-systems-does-not-begin-and-end-960#comments design favorite-of-the-king grids themers Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:28:08 +0000 markboulton 1197 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Accelerated grid theming using NineSixty http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/accelerated-grid-theming-using-ninesixty <p>This session will be co-presented by <a href="http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/drupal-users/todd-nienkerk">Todd Nienkerk of Four Kitchens</a>.</p> <p>Finding the proper starting point for a theme is a long drawn out process for any themer. We struggle with either maintaining our own base theme, starting from Garland, creating a <a href="http://drupal.org/project/zen">Zen</a> sub-theme, or just writing something from scratch.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Jake is an engineer/themer with CommonPlaces E-Solutions, currently busy with various theming projects, and maintaining and creating several contributed modules. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-co-presenters"> <div class="field-label">Co presenters:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/drupal-users/todd-nienkerk" title="View user profile.">Todd Nienkerk</a> </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/accelerated-grid-theming-using-ninesixty#comments 960gs ninesixty theming Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:34:10 +0000 himerus 695 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org Closing session http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/closing-session <p>Farewell party</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-bio-booklet"> <div class="field-label">Speaker bio:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> to come </div> </div> </div> http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/closing-session#comments closing session Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:32:05 +0000 DrupalconParis 1967 at http://paris2009.drupalcon.org