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August Denver Drupal Meetup Recap

Despite the absence of those who had gone to DrupalCon Copenhagen, the August Denver Drupal meet-up had a good turnout and was a great success. A lot of questions were answered and three short presentations were given about theming regions, drush and data migration.

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DrupalCon Copenhagen: Let's Catch Up

Aten Design Group is helping sponsor this year's DrupalCon Copenhagen. We’re especially interested in talking with people about online grass-root campaigns, design and development processes, efforts to lower Drupal’s barrier of entry for non-developer users.

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DrupalCamp - A Camper's Perspective

We’ve posted a couple blog articles recapping the sessions that Aten presented at DrupalCamp Colorado, but as a first-time DrupalCamper and non-presenter, I thought I’d share a different perspective.

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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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HTML5 in Drupal

The web isn't going to wait for Drupal to get comfortable, so it's important we get out in front of these changes rather than struggling to catch up. There's a ton to learn about HTML5 (I only scratched the surface in an hour), but the first step is incredibly easy. Is your Drupal site using HTML5 yet?

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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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Module Modularity

The idea of modules being modular seems kind of obvious; that's what "module" means, after all. But it doesn't always happen in practice, and it's worth looking at what constrains modularity in Drupal and how we can improve things.

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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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