The Aten Blog

The Aten Blog

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The New AtenDesignGroup.com

Over the past few months, we've been working to redesign our website to better reflect our identity, our work, and our process. The new design gives us the flexibility to create custom designs for featured projects, a better framework for writing blog posts, and a much prettier interface, both on the front and back-end.

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Enhancing Drupal Interfaces with Javascript & Flash

At DrupalCamp Colorado, Scott and I presented Enhancing Drupal Interfaces with Javascript & Flash. We covered why you should use Javascript or Flash, how best to use these technologies, and some examples from recent projects where we've improved the user experience.

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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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Fonts in Drupal with @font-your-face

If only all of these font providers all had APIs, we could pull them all into Drupal and use a standard interface to apply a wide variety of fonts to our designs without needing to hunt down who offers which fonts and deal with the a slightly different system at every provider. That's the idea behind @font-your-face: a common interface for dealing with fonts from all over the web in Drupal.

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Hiring Awesome Web Talent

Hi there, talented web developers and designers. You should come work with us; we're hiring and you'll love it here.

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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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Wireframe Template - A Starting Point

Throughout our design process there are a number of tools & conventions we use to make it easier to get to the design concept. Here’s a simple template we use to create wireframes, a little faster.

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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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Launch Week

Last week was launch week at Aten, with two brand new redesigns hitting the interwebs. Both were for product manufacturers. Both were built in Drupal. Both companies sweat the details. In just about every other way, the two websites couldn't have been more different. Introducing RichardsonCap.com and ZimmermanMarine.com.

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Drupal for Journalism Educators: Poynter's News University Goes Live

Last week, Poynter's NewsU.org, the world's leading journalism education website, went live with a complete redesign. We're extremely pleased with the outcome of the process.

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