Tag: drupal

  • Itching for a redesign

    It’s been just over a year since I rolled out the current design of Pixels and Widgets and for the past four weeks, I’ve been itching to tear it down and start all over again. I guess the question that occurs to me is: Why redesign a site that you barely update? I’ve been asking…

  • Courage to create

    UPDATED: I added some further thoughts on why I think MB Design is being really brave Mark Boulton and his team are the bravest designers I (don’t) know. [stag_intro]Designers all know that design by committee doesn’t work. However, can design by community succeed? [/stag_intro] I personally don’t know, but Mark Boulten & Leisa Reichelt intend…

  • Some good things about Drupal

    [stag_intro]I am often overwhelmed with feelings of bitterness when I think about Drupal. My wife thinks it is cute that I am so passionate about a platform. [/stag_intro] Frequently, I tag entries referring to Drupal on my web journal with “suckage“. It’s horrible, but the sense of frustration I’ve had with Drupal is greater than…

  • Where is the Drupal Joy?

    [stag_intro]I realise that with any system there will always be challenges and new things to learn. The “Drupal Way” is very different from the “Tao of Textpattern”. Even today, I struggle to get the underlying concepts for how things are done in Drupal.[/stag_intro] I have always stood by the adage of using the “right tool…

  • Of Drupal Woes

    [UPDATE: 10/16/2008] I take back most of what I think about the Zen Theme.  The more I poked around, the more I “got it”.  Great job by the guys at Lullabot. I’ve taken the last week and a half exploring Drupal. Some people say it’s the Cat’s Meow, but I say that it still needs a…

  • Quote on Drupal and the cluster that is theming

    Finding the source can be difficult to track down due to the hierarchy of theming calls whose source can be spread throughout the whole system. From Overriding themable output | drupal.org regarding drupal theming Wow. There is a startling admisssion. Even Drupal admits that theming is a bit hairy.

  • Why are Drupal themes so unspectacular

    I don’t intend for this to be trolling, but I was googling the term “Drupal is ugly” looking for why most of the themes which are formally submitted to drupal.org are so, umm, un-inspiring. This found an interesting blog post from a well known Drupal developer AND designer who quit his involvement earlier this year.  The post…