Designer

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?

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

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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The Apache Solr Search Integration can give you great results right away, but have you taken the time to look in depth at its configuration options? Do you understand how changing those setting can provide a better search experience for your users and focus attention on the content you think is most important?

This session will explain the basic concepts behind the different configuration sections in the admin interface and then show the effect of different configuration options on what goes into the search index, and how search results are found and ordered.