Nov 2011
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Oct 2011
As you already know, Drupal 7 had its debut on January this year. It has been 8 months until we can come up with the first Drupal 7 themes (ST Khen and ST Mizmar). I have faced many challenges such as lack of modules and a good base theme. Changing a Drupal platform requires a completed reboot of technology and thinkings.
Omega base theme
One crucial point of our Drupal 7 themes is mobile device supported. For Drupal 6, my headache was making the theme compliant to major browsers. Now the heachache is doubled since we still have to keep the theme look best in major browsers, we also have to make it look best in mobile devices. With the huge growth of hand held devices, mobile supported displaying will be soon a must for any websites.
An example of responsive layout
Thanks to...
May 2011
When I looked at the Drupal statistics in Wikipedia, the first Drupal conference at Antwerp on Feb 2005 had fewer than 50 people attending. The last conference at Chicago this March, over 3000 attendees. What a huge growth. The upcoming Drupal Con in London happens this August. The tickets just started to be sold but I already feel the heat: 350 proposed sessions are submitted.
I have never been at a Drupal conference. I hope this is a chance to attend a Drupal conference, and it would be wonderful to be there as a speaker. My proposed session is "How to make out of the box Drupal products". I also quote the proposal here:
How to make out-of-the-box Drupal products?
What is out-of-the-box
A Drupal out-of-the-box package, also called "install profile", consists of collections of Drupal core, modules, themes and associated configuration settings for a specific usage. The best part of it is that you can use right after installation. Some popular Drupal install profles are OpenPublish, Drupal Commons, Open Atrium, Managing Ne...
Dec 2010
Alot questions you may think about now:
- Are you kidding? I know Drupal is great, but it is hard to learn.
- 7 hours to master Drupal is a joke
- No way! Bullshit! *&^*#^&% and so on
First thing to say, we can NOT be a Drupal developer to build great Drupal sites in 7 hours. That is just impossible!
I am not a Drupal developer. I am just a Drupal beginner. I know some HTML syntax, some hosting operations, I can't even write PHP code. That's why I found difficult when I first learnt Drupal. It was a long way to get to the point when I can actually show a Drupal site to my friends. What I wished at that time is, if someone could build a completed site for me, I can change my logos, write some stuffs about myself, customize it a little bit then off we go, this is my Drupal site.
During a couple of years working with my Symphony team, I still want to build a Drupal package, that a beginner like me, can actually launch a Drupal site in less than a day...
May 2010
On May 12th 2010, Noupe has presented 50 high quality Drupal themes in their blog. ST Alphorn and Conch are selected among 5 themes of Magazine and Newspaper style category.
Noupe is a well known design blog about new and interesting stuff on design, jQuery and photoshop. In the recent article on Drupal, Noupe introduced some basic concepts of Drupal setup, simple customization and themes in conjuction with 50 Drupal themes of categories:
- Free Magazine and Newspaper Style Themes
- Free Corporate and Business Themes
- Free Blog Themes
- Free Wordpress Ported Themes for Drupal
- Blank and Starter Drupal Themes for Developers
- Premium Drupal 6 Themes
Alphorn and Conch from Symphony Themes are listed among five free magazine and newspaper styles themes. So far they are two of most popular free Drupal themes. According to our statistics, each of them has...
Free Drupal ebook
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