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When I say Think, you say Shout! A look into ThinkShout's Site Redesign and Responsive Theme

January 17, 2012 - 11:00 -- Andrea

When I started at ThinkShout in June 2011, Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte had just been released. I read an excerpt of the book, Fluid Images, on A List Apart and was intrigued. I immediately bought the book and devoured it.

At the same time, Lev Tsypin, one of the partners at ThinkShout, and I started talking about HTML5 themes in an effort to choose a new standard HTML5 Drupal theme for ThinkShout to work off of. We decided to see what HTML5 themes had momentum in the Drupal community and we tested out and reviewed many current HTML5 themes out there.

Tags: 
theming
design
Drupal Planet

6 Drupal Modules to Improve Administration/Editorial Usability

July 21, 2009 - 00:00 -- Andrea

Yesterday I built out a quick Drupal site for a fairly non-technical client. He manages a busy team and doesn't have the time for me to train his staff on the intricacies of Drupal content administration. The project also has a shoestring budget, so I wanted to keep things as simple as possible. Below are a few Drupal modules and tricks that I used to cut down on Drupal admin interface clutter, and more importantly, to make the site bombproof to unexperienced Drupal content editors.

Site Configuration Permissions

http://drupal.org/project/config_perms

Personally, I love leveraging the "site information" admin screen in Drupal, and I hate that generally you can't expose this admin screen to Drupal admins w/o also exposing a lot of the more sensitive "guts" of Drupal. This module provides more granular site configuration permissions.

Tags: 
Drupal
Usability
Drupal Planet