Design & Usability

A round table discussion about benefits and challenges involved in the use of Drupal as a CMS in education. Topics to include strategy, performance, scalability, banner integration, multisite v.s. single site, document management and more.

Co-moderated by Andrew Lindsay (Mirabuck) and Mark Styles (lambic) of McGill University.

We’ll explore a variety of cool Firefox tools and tips, focusing on various addons, with an emphasis on items useful with/for Drupal.

Tools like Firebug and Webdeveloper, as well as more general items like AdBlock, Greasemonkey, and many others will all be discussed in the context of Drupal in particular.

Are you ready for Web 3.0? Disruptive collaborative technologies are converging so that your users will dictate how (or if) they interact with your site, and we’ll discuss the early edge of this wave and how Firefox addons (and Chrome/etc in the future) are already showing the way…

In this presentation, we will discuss implementing Drupal to over 1200 sites maintained at the University of Calgary. This will include, the WCM selection process, architecture and configuration along with our fail over processes. We will also discuss migration strategies when upgrading Drupal versions, along with overall lessons learned.

A follow up to my presentation at Drupalcon Paris on the 960gs in Drupal.

I’ve touched on basic 960gs theming options with the ninesixty theme, and will delve further into creating a site that is easier for a non-technical site administrator to quickly change layouts through theme settings, while avoiding theming/layout issues.

Panels 3 is an amazingly powerful tool for building websites. So much so, in fact, that I wonder if I’ll ever do another website without it.

From creating complex layouts for viewing or editing content, to determining contexts and passing parameters around without any snippets, Panels has something for both beginners and experts alike.

Ok, so maybe the use of “Extreme” in the title of this session was just a cheap way to peak your interest.

In this session I’ll discuss and show some of the jQuery techniques we use at the Penn State’s eLearning Institute to always keep navigation in scope while not detracting from the course content. Oh yeah, and how to make it look cool too!

Update: I can’t express all the coolness in just 20 minutes, so I upped the session to an hour :)