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Drupal Theming

Style-Guide-Driven Development: the new web development

If you’ve looked at front-end development at any time during the past four years, you know that there has been an explosion of new technologies. We are inundated with new projects like bower and cucumber and behat and KSS. It is a lot to take in. At the past two Drupalcons there have been sessions about this overload, My Brain is Full: The state of Front-end developement. Essentially those sessions are asking “What the hell is going on?”

“Everyone is describing the one little piece they’ve created, but don’t explain (or even reference!) the larger concepts of how all of these elements link together.”

— Frank Chimero, July 2014 Designer News AMA

This is my attempt to explain.

Senior Front-end Developer

UX in the kitchen: An introduction to UX Spaces

User Experience is a much misunderstood discipline. For a start, in software and web development, we generally think of it as a design task, for design wonks, or some kind of process prior to real development where we determine some user needs or requirements. In particular, within web development, user experience is treated either as a step in a process, or a specialised skill, but almost never as a holistic development vision.

Drupal consultant

Panel layout basics to free you from Core's block

Like everything in Drupal, there is a slight learning curve when you make the leap to using Panels for your Drupal sitebuilding. This article aims to give you a brief and broad introduction to theming practices used when using Panels and its popular helper modules as your main site-building tools.

Front-End Developer

So, you want your Drupal website to be accessible?

There are a lot of methods available for testing a Drupal site's accessibility. I will go through the methods I use from a high level to give a basic introduction into testing for a Drupal web site's accessibility.

Drupal Developer

Up and running with Sass in Drupal 7

SASS stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets, and are a powerful way to streamline your Drupal theme's CSS. Based on CSS, the learning curve is not too steep for a seasoned front-end developer. In this post, you'll get an introduction to the basics of SASS and how to get your development environment up and running.