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Jul 7 2010

Advanced Theming Techniques in Drupal

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Drupal Camp Colorado 2010 was a blast! The weekend camp (no we didn't stay in tents) was packed full of interesting sessions about Drupal. My colleague Scott Reynen and I presented a session over the weekend titled "I CAN HAZ AWESOME? -- Advanced Theming Techniques". During the question/answer time at the end of our session, one gentleman asked for our slides (best viewed in Safari & Chrome).

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May 13 2010

Gain Efficiency with Mood Boards

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Over the past year, we've been exploring mood boards, and how they fit in our visual design process. First, how did we know we even needed them?

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Apr 26 2010

LESS, The Flavor of CSS You Should be Writing for Drupal

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It's no secret that we're obsessed with design. When we create a custom Drupal theme from our detailed designs, sometimes we end up with some pretty gnarly stylesheets. Since Drupal offers a generalized solution (typically a good thing), it creates unique, and often long, IDs and Classes for most HTML elements.

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Sep 28 2009

Embracing the Iterative Design Process

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As a new Senior Designer at Aten, our design process seems fairly similar to how I've done things in the past, with one clear exception: the attitude surrounding design revisions.

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Joel Steidl

Senior Designer

Joel excels at making complicated design problems simple through good interface design. Whether designing or coding, Joel has a passion for doing things right.

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