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Add a mobile version to your Drupal site

Martin Joergensen 1 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

This session will go through some different ways of making a parallel version of your Drupal site suited for smartphones like the iPhone and Android phones.

This is NOT about making apps, but about adapting themes, templates, views and other odds and ends to make your site look nice – or at least be useful – on the small screen and potentially limited facilities.
This is not rocket science, but there are some pitfalls and some areas which require more work – and some where it's close to impossible to adapt look and function to the small screen – but in general it's easy to customize news, articles, discussions and much more to fit the limited screens on mobile devices.

aimee maree forsstrom

30 June 2010
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One Laptop Per Child Australia
Australia
Language (Primary) English
Language (Secondary) Maltese
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amaree
328064
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Freelancing in Web Development since 2006 with main work focusing on Drupal 6 since 2008. Over the past two years I have been involved in small to larger Drupal website development projects performing lead development and business analysis. Experience with Large Government and Commercial web site/application projects. Over 10 years of experience working within Information Technology in the arenas of both Web Development and Network Engineering.

John Noceda

30 June 2010
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Norwegian Online Communication Experts DA
Norway
Language (Primary) English
Language (Secondary) Norwegian
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JohnNoc
70994
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Grzegorz Dudek

30 June 2010
Grzegorz Dudek
Local team/staff
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Media Regionalne
Poland
Language (Primary) Polish
Language (Secondary) English
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gdud
459982

Sharpen your Axe- How We Reduced Development Time by more than 80%

Richard Jones 29 June 2010
Type:  Session in official program

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

How a well prepared baseline can cut development time by 80%

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Despite such a wise dictum and lots of personal experience to teach us otherwise, we find continued pressure to dive into projects with little to no planning in efforts to “go faster”.

However the goal we set ourselves was to reduce Drupal development time by 80% and this session is to share the invaluable lessons we have learned in the quest to go much, much faster.

Focussing on the Site Owner Experience - your pathway to profit and happiness.

Richard Jones 29 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Developers love Drupal for a hundred reasons, not least because it makes you look like a rockstar coder whose answer to any functional request is always 'Yes I can'.

However answer me this honestly, how did the training and handover to the client go ? Did you find yourself apologising or explaining away certain areas or buttons that don't actually do anything - or worse "ah this is actually a developer's feature".

Developers love Drupal for a hundred reasons, not least because it makes you look like a rockstar coder whose answer to any functional request is always 'Yes I can'.

However answer me this honestly, how did the training and handover to the client go ? Did you find yourself apologising or explaining away certain areas or buttons that don't actually do anything - or worse "ah this is actually a developer's feature".

Like me, you may have looked at the admin themes out there as an aftermarket bolt on to improve this - or perhaps you're happy for your clients to use the little black bar?

From a html/css template to a Drupal theme

Hans Rossel 29 June 2010
Type:  Session in official program

This session shows how you can turn a html/css prototype into a Drupal theme.

This session shows how you can turn a html/css prototype into a Drupal theme.

  • Drupal Theme anatomy
  • Filestructure of a Drupal theme
  • Creating a theme as a subtheme of a base theme or starter theme
  • Creating a theme from scratch from your own html/css template
  • .info file
  • css and js in a theme
  • page.tpl.php
  • node.tpl.php
  • regions
  • multiple page, node, block template files
  • variables and preprocessing examples
  • Theme developer module

Tom Behets

29 June 2010
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Krimson
Belgium
Language (Primary) Dutch
Language (Secondary) French
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232832
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betz

A survey of rich multimedia in Drupal 7

Jacob Singh 29 June 2010
Type:  Session in official program

Usability is #1 goal in Drupal 7. See how you can wow your clients and build rich multimedia solutions in D7.

Jacob Singh (Drupal core developer, Acquia DrupalGardens engineer and Media module maintainer) will be showing off some of the new media file management functionalities in Drupal 7 core and contrib.

This session is geared toward site builders and developers, but most of it will be non-technical and appropriate for business leaders trying to grasp the possibilities. We'll be looking at:

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  • Image and file fields in core, how they are used
  • How to add meta-data using the Media module to files. This means captions on images, genres (tags) on mp3s, etc
  • Amy Ash

    28 June 2010
    Amy Ash
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    Candie Bandit
    United Kingdom
    Language (Primary) English
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    Candie Bandit
    652648
    Candie Bandit
    Candie

    Hello!
    I am Amy Ash, known colloquially as Candie Bandit. I busy myself with making bespoke Drupal Themes.
    Looking forward to meeting you in Copenhagen :)

    "Candie Bandit" (noun)

    (1) A polymath of sorts. (2) Creates visualisms, audioisms and code; or a combination thereof. (3) Can be found either spraying or splattering paint onto surfaces; or appreciating architecture in an unconventional form using a plank of wood attached to four wheels.