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Painlessly Migrate from Wordpress to Drupal

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to migrate content from Wordpress to Drupal.

Versions in use: Wordpress 3.3.2 & Drupal 7.12

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Painlessly Migrate from Wordpress to Drupal from Aten Design Group on Vimeo.

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jQuery Cycle FTW!

When it comes to web development, it would hurt my feelings if you called me a one-trick-pony. However, for the majority of projects I've worked on, there has been a need for a slideshow and/or rotating content. For a number of years, SlideShowPro (a flexible Flash slideshow), was my goto for slideshows.

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Drupal Imports using Feeds Module

Sometimes it can be a huge time saver to import large sets of data into Drupal, rather than entering content one-by-one through the admin interface.

Example:

Say that your client has a spreadsheet of a couple hundred people that includes a first name, last name, weight, height, gender, etc. It would take way too long to enter those one at a time.

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Advanced Theming Techniques in Drupal

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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Gain Efficiency with Mood Boards

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

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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Embracing the Iterative Design Process

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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About the Author

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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