Design

Happy Friday everybody! Episode 30 was recorded at Drupalcon Baltimore, but I didn't notice that the mic setting was still set for our lapel mic, so we had to re-do the audio. That being said, Carie Fisher and Chris Doherty are going show us 5 Steps to Get Your Design from Paper to Style Guide (While Remaining Friends).

It’s always useful to discuss the latest social sharing trends or best practices when designing a signup form. But whether your work includes designing the next pixel perfect icon library or solving the latest user interface problem, sometimes it’s also a good idea to take a step back and appreciate why we started doing ‘this’ in the first place.
 

TGIF! The Friday 5 is back with our first episode of 2017! 

This week we welcome back Creative Director Dante Taylor, who answers 5 Questions to Get Your Designs Past Large Review Boards.

He discusses some key points to consider when presenting your creative designs. Watch the video to learn about what clients want in a boardroom setting, how designs should be presented, a few golden rules when presenting, and more!

What makes a good designer? Well, of course, you have to be creative, understand how to solve problems in unconventional ways, and do it all within budget. But wait, there's more to it than being super creative and solving problems. You must be able to make others understand how your design vision solves their problems.
 

One of the biggest challenges when designing a website is not only creating a flawless experience for all devices but also one that engages the visitor and holds their attention in the right way. Here are a few design ideas that will increase visitor engagement on your website.

In this post, I'll outline a comparison of "sticky" methods to make website components stay on a page.

Sticky? What in the Sam Hill are you talking about?

I am not sure if you’ve heard, but every site needs some sticky components. At least, that seems like an on-going trend in web development. Just in case you haven’t run into this term before, sticky is the methodology of keeping a part of the site - possibly the navigation, header, or social share toolbar - from scrolling off the page, making it stick as the user scrolls down the page.

In 2014, the total number of websites in the world reached over 1 billion. That’s a LOT of competition, elevating the importance of providing an effortless web experience to the now, often sophisticated, visitor. The visitor experience - aka the ‘user experience’ - can be successfully developed using a wide variety of tools and methods. Have you ever heard the saying “If you build it, they will come?" When talking about a great user experience, if you build it, they will return.

If you’ve been doing web design and development for a while you may remember the days when creating website layouts involved tables or browser specific techniques. Things got a lot better when we began using floats for creating layouts and this proved to be extremely successful. In fact, this technique is still widely used by most developers and designers because it works well and it allows us to build pretty sophisticated layouts.  

Our first foray into public during Drupalcon Los Angeles. Bob, Jason and Mark are live interviewing anyone who showed up to our BOF (Birds of a Feather) and gave away fancy WeeklyDrop T-shirts. We also talked about our favorite sessions in this years North American ‘Con. Special thanks to Benztown Radio for the use of their equipment.

Lose weight. Eat better. Run a 5K. Travel more. These are resolutions we all make year after year. But this year, we challenged our team to think outside the box and inside the drop. Now that 2014 has come and gone, and we prepare to countdown to 2015, we asked our team what they are looking to accomplish in Drupal in the New Year.

“Get more of my modules out for D8.” - Andrew Riley