Theme development

I have 4 years experience in building and theming Drupal websites. I also like creating new designs in Photoshop and converting them to beautiful, interactive themes. My specialty is called Front-end Development and my skills are in HTML5/CSS, jQuery, some PHP/mySQL. Recently, as I've been browsing the Drupal job ads, I noticed several companies were advertising for Front-end Developers who also can do custom module development.

Previously, we had a friendly discussion on what we could use as a responsive layout framework for Drupal.org. Rupl, Banghouse, and myself played around with a lot of the options discussed in that post to work out which would be a good fit for us. Snugug also volunteered to help us out with technical questions and implementation.

We ended up deciding that using a Sass framework solves a lot of our problems, specially Susy. Implementing this framework is no small feat. We wrote a little summary of the Sass, Compass, and Susy implementation.

On May 20 chx, crell, c4rl, mlncn, stevector, Jerdavis, quicksketch, and jenlampton sprinted on creating a new theme layer for Drupal 8, using Twig, along with help from various members of The Nerdery, Tom Cox, and othe

On April 20-22 chx, JohnAlbin, EclipseGC, quicksketch, hefox, effulgentsia, and jenlampton sprinted on creating a new theme layer for Drupal 8, using Twig, along with help from David Needham, Garret Voorhees, a

Please join us for our next IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Tuesday, May 29. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.

Tuesday, May 29:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Wednesday)

Just wanted to get some feedback about a new feature we've released.

Not sure how many of you know about Sasson's "file watcher". for those who don't - you can watch a list of files (entered in theme settings form under "Development"), everytime a file is modified - your browser will automatically refresh itself so you get instant feedback on the changes you just did in the files. cool.

The news are that on the latest release, the file watcher works (for stylesheets - CSS/SCSS/SASS) without refreshing your page (!).

Greetings, y'all.

Been grappling with this issue. I want taxonomy description, which I have painstakingly added to each term, to appear on mouseover of the taxonomy term -- or alternatively, mouseover of an added post-term icon (such as "i" symbol).

I am quite surprised that this is not default behavior. It appears to be for "allowed values", but not when those values are pulled from taxonomy.

USE CASE:

Please join us for our next IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, May 3. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.

Thursday, May 3:
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There's a great event called DrupalCamp Twin Cities going on May 18-19, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Since the event is one of my favorites, I've signed up to attend and also will be organizing a Drupal 8 Theme Layer sprint on Sunday, May 20th (as well as during the camp of course!). The specific times and location are still TBD but plan on an approximately 10 AM to 5 PM sprint.

Agenda:

As part of the Drupal.org code sprint in Portland; Chris Ruppel, Joel Moore and myself have been discussing a new Bluecheese. A lean, tight, and admin friendly theme that lays out a framework for the future. One that would allow us to develop a mobile friendly, responsive design.

What we want

An admin friendly UI

As jacine with angelic patience has explained her concerns over the last few weeks and suffered through my blundering over trying to solve them, I arrived fairly prepared for the theme sprint and we have agreed on a lot more than we disagreed. Actually we didn't need to debate over anything at all! :)

1. On the caller side, we are going to go with something like

   $list1 = new Template('list', array('items' => array('listitem1', 'listitem2')));

   Of course, this can be made recursive:

I need to be able to modify (if possible) The Corporate Clean Theme. Specifically, the menu behavior for showing the menu flyout. the first-level (and I am guessing, subsequent levels) only opens-up when a page in that menu has the focus. I would like the menu to fly-open when I hover over another menu group. But again, this does not happen until I click on the first-level (main menu) item. Then I can hover over that main menu item to open it.

Does anyone know of a setting or a place in the code where I can get the menu to open just by hovering?

Please join us for our next IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, April 12. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.

Thursday, April 12:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)

Please join us for our next IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, March 29. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.

Thursday, March 29:
San Francisco — 12pm
New York — 3pm
London — 8pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)

Some people believe that wrapper markup should be controlled via UI so that those configuring the site can choose the proper element to wrap blocks of content in, down to fields. This question is about Drupal core itself. Contrib has been and will continue to be able to solve this problem. See Display Suite, Views, Fences, etc.

Let me start by stating that I came into drupal thinking template overrides and adding/removing divs, classes and regions within the template files was the most important thing to know in order to theme in drupal. I have since learned that most of the work can be done through configuring within the administrative interface as well as by utilizing the default div's and classes in your CSS.

A sprint to tear down and rebuild the theme system for D8 based on ideas based the ideas outlined below. We'll be gathering a few key people in San Francisco at the Chapter Three offices to formulate a plan and build a working example.

We invite everyone else who's interested in cleaning up Drupal's theme layer to please participate remotely, we'll be on IRC in the #drupal-themesprint channel from 10am Pacific onward each day, April 20th, 21st and 22nd.

1) John Albin's core conversation:
http://denver2012.drupal.org/content/re-thinking-rendertheme-layers

2) Jacine's blog:

There are a lot of Sessions and BOFs about Responsive Web Design happening during Drupalcon Denver 2012, here is some overview:

Themes section is full of very powerfull and configurable themes.
This is very helpfull if you are building a big website with complex functionality but most of us just want to develop something that's already out there and be able to slightly alter it to bend our needs.

I'm suggesting to leave the abstract website developing strategy driven by base themes and start by picking a case study and make it work.
It will save us time and will help new users to dive in.

So...
1.Pick a case study
2.Install required modules
3.Build custom content types base on the entities requiried

This Sunday, the Drupal 8 mobile initiative will be holding our third weekly office hours in IRC. The office hours will allow regular contributors to work together at the same time on the Initiative’s issues. And will allow new people to figure out how they can help too!