North America

Dissecting Tailwind: A design tokens tale

conference: Drupalcon North America 2021

Tailwind and utility-first frameworks have gotten a lot of buzz recently in the CSS world. Developers who dislike CSS love Tailwind since you don’t have to write any CSS, but why should frontend developers consider a tool that, at first glance, looks like inline styles?

Progressively decouple Drupal 8 with GraphQL and Twig

conference: Drupalcon Global 2020

This session will present a beginner’s guide and demo on how to use GraphQL in Twig. Decoupled Drupal is the future, but learning an entirely new stack can be daunting. Writing GraphQL inside Twig templates gives developers a path to an accessible progressive-decoupled approach. 

Gatsby and GraphQL Schema Stitching with Drupal

conference: Decoupled Days 2019

With its 2.0 release, Gatsby added experimental support for GraphQL schema stitching to Gatsby’s already-excellent GraphQL system. This new feature allows you to create a single, universal graph of data composed of multiple GraphQL endpoints.

CSS-in-JS and Drupal
 sitting in a tree...

conference: Drupalcon Seattle 2019

So you are a Drupal themer thinking about styling a decoupled Drupal website? It can be daunting to look at the JavaScript community; there seems to be a new best practice every week. And picking the right CSS-in-JS solution appears to be a nightmare of infinite choices. What to use? Styled Components? Glamorous? Inline CSS? Once you’ve decided on a solution for your decoupled project, do you now maintain two different CSS build tools for your projects, one for Drupal and one for decoupled?

Creating Responsive Drupal Sites with Zen Grids and the Zen 5 Theme

webinar: Acquia Webinar

Too many responsive websites fall into the “move the sidebars around” trap and end up looking the same as any other responsive site. By combining the CSS of Zen Grids and the smart markup of the Zen 5 theme, you can create a stellar, unique responsive design for your website with ease.

Rethinking Responsive Building Techniques with Sass and Drupal Themes and Modules

meetup: Berkeley Drupal User Group

We’ve had over a year to think about how “Responsive web design” affects us. In this session, we’ll think about the limitations we’ve placed on ourselves with our current layout building techniques and how to break free from them. Break free from regions. Break free from CSS limitations. Break free from the difficulties inherit in responsive design.

Re-thinking the render/theme layers

conference: Drupalcon Denver 2012

Drupal 7’s theme layer is powerful, flexible and massively complicated. With the introduction of the Render API into our template files and the double preprocess/process functions, the number of different ways that a piece of content might get rendered has made it difficult for themers to figure out… what the hell is going on at any given moment.

Making Drupal Core Mobile-Friendly

conference: Drupalcon Denver 2012

Drupal Eight needs to be mobile-friendly. One of the tasks in the core Mobile Initiative is to bring a quality user experience to the administration interface in line with the expectations set by native applications.

This session covers the challenges, pitfalls, and potential solutions for the initiative, as well as outlining future road maps and how you can get involved.

Rethinking Responsive Building Techniques with Drupal

conference: Drupalcon Denver 2012

We’ve had over a year to think about how “Responsive web design” affects us. In this session, we’ll think about the limitations we’ve placed on ourselves with our current layout building techniques and how to break free from them. Break free from regions. Break free from CSS limitations. Break free from the difficulties inherit in responsive design.

Become an IA superstar: building essential navigation in Drupal

conference: Drupalcon Chicago 2011

Learn how to slice, sort, expand, and tweak Drupal’s menus in flexible ways to build a usable Information Architecture for your website.