Dave:
We're excited to announce the Alpha 3 release of OpenPublish! This release features app support and a new responsive Omega-based Default Theme amongst other improvements and tools for site builders.
Dave:
The amount of news content available on the web is staggering and overwhelming. Publishers recognize that they must differentiate themselves by producing and aggregating the most interesting and relevant content for their target audience, and packaging it in the most consumable way possible.
As a result, one of the most important aspects of developing a content strategy revolves around the degree of "curation" - when and where editors need to dictate exactly what stories are displayed.
Dave:
In Drupal 7, the idea of "make everything a node" doesn't quite hold water as it did in the past since content types have been abstracted as a type of fieldable entity. Here are some basic litmus tests to use when deciding which entity type should be utilized for satisfying requirements.
Dave:
For several years, we’ve been fusing the visual design and user experience design processes together more formally. And, in doing so, the end result is a more intuitive site with complementary functionality and aesthetics.
Dave:
How are your users finding your content? Are they coming to your website from a search engine? If so, which one? Are they arriving on your homepage first, or are they landing on an interior page of the site that’s loaded with keyword-rich content?
Dave:
We’ve all been to a website that’s overrun with advertising. Performance on these tends to be abysmal -- the slow loading time is mostly thanks to all those jumping, flashing, talking, moving, animated sidebars, headers, footers, and mid-page graphics screaming for our attention.
Dave:
Traditionally, discussions about user experience tend to center around end-users who are accessing and interacting with public-facing web content.
Dave:
High-profile, complex web sites and applications require an exponentially larger testing effort than your average blog or "brochure site". I'll share some principles and techniques that are universal to any software development effort - not just Drupal.
Dave:
The Node Relationships module significantly extends the capabilities of a standard node reference CCK field in a number of important ways - learn how.
Dave:
Large-scale Drupal implementations inevitably contain lots of content types, involve many users that participate in testing, and thousands upon thousands of nodes. For these reasons, you have to be very diligent from the beginning about how you differentiate test content from real content in order to avoid launching a site with pages full of lorem ipsum (or a photo gallery from your dog's 5th birthday party.)
