Georgia Tech Drupal News

Meeting notes: July 20, 2012

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Topics covered: image gallery show-and-tell by Joanie Chembars & Brian Danin; Staging Drupal on gatech.edu by Adam Arrowood.

I. Image gallery Show-and-Tell

  • Joanie Chembars - Architecture (http://id.gatech.edu/gallery, leverages Drupal)
    • clones image submitted by student as a submission to be approved by admins/professors
    • Uses Views with Exposed Filters
  • Brian Danin - Comm & Marketing (http://gatech.edu/photos, leverages Flickr)
    • Flickr field added to pages (so flickr controls permissions for uploading by Comm team)
    • Also uses media and lightbox modules (can't use in D7 because it auto creates ALL sets in Drupal, not just chosen ones)
    • Backup locally, but share via already-created software (Flickr & its API)
    • There are legal release forms for photos/videos on http://gatech.edu/comm/toolbox/index.html

II. Staging Drupal for fun and profit on www.gatech.edu

  • Adam Arrowood - OIT web hosting
  • Goals: performance (caching), seamless testing/staging/production moves, security, reliability, etc.

 

Meeting notes: June 15, 2012

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Topics covered: Responsive Theming with Omega - Tim Whelan.

I. Tim Whelan "My work responsive theming with Omega"

II. Key concepts

  • Design for FLUID grids, with BREAK POINTS.

  • Use PERCENTAGES (%) for everything.
  • Image handling gets tricky (upload all images in 3 diff sizes because not all browsers can do % for images). Will VML (Vector Markup Language) save us someday?
  • Omega & Fusion & Adaptive themes: nice UI, LOTS of options (sometimes too many), but quick to set up because of this. (Adaptive more accessible).
  • Display suite module (control content display using a drag and drop interface)
  • Fences module (specify an HTML element for each field)

  • Current Drupal is hard to change output HTML in (see mothership theme for attempts to combat 'div-itis')

  • Mega menus can help explain structure of site. See Tim's presentation for JS code.