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Customized Features from our Redesign

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 15:11
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As a follow up to the previous post talking about our (re)branding process, we wanted to share with you some of the details of the new theme for our site, as well as a few configuration changes, and what we learned.

960 Grid-based Theme

In an earlier post, our theme lead Alberto talked a bit about CSS Frameworks, including the 960 Grid System, which is compatible with Drupal's Zen framework. Those are two of the main tools in his theming toolkit, so we made sure to get a theme designed that would comply with using the grid system. Alberto then took the layout CSS file from the 960 Framework and substituted that for the layout CSS file in Zen, but otherwise used all the other Zen files.

Reflecting on Bridging and Collaboration

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 13:28
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Earlier this week, following much anticipation, we launched our website redesign (if you're reading this via RSS, check it out! http://affinitybridge.com), which has been in the works for several months. It began as a rebranding of the company logo, then new business cards, and finally the website. When we began this redesign process with Kirsti Wakelin, who did the design for all three, we had to spend some time considering and reconsidering what we wanted to convey with our logo and branding. Affinity Bridge has always tied itself to the imagery of bridges. We had to ask ourselves if that was something that still spoke to us, and that we felt still spoke to the people and organizations we work with.

Emma Jane Hogbin - Theming Workshop Jan. 11

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 12:34
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Unless you're able to travel to the US, it's not often that we Vancouverites get the chance to go to a theming workshop put on by the author of one of the most well loved, and well used Drupal theming books to date.

January 11, 2010, Emma Jane Hogbin, co-author of Front End Drupal, is coming to town and is putting on a one-day workshop for 20 keen beginner themers.

The workshop will be geared towards people who have previous HTML/CSS experience and at least a familiarity with PHP. It will focus on bringing those basic skills and sharpening them with a focus on how to work with the Drupal theming system.

The Workshop

Front End Drupal is focuses on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The focus is to show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes.

Drupal SimpleTest Module Abridged

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 10:24
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This post is part of our Abridged series, which aims to explain the basics of some of the more ominous yet awesome Drupal projects in simple and practical terms. We hope these posts will help demystify some of these projects for people who have been hesitant to try them out!

AB learning simpletest from Rok

Here, we'll take a look at the SimpleTest module/framework, including a review of its history within the Drupal project, the current state of the module, how to start using it, resources, and a note on how we've been using it ourselves. HUGE thanks to Drupal SimpleTest co-maintainer Rok Zlender for teaching us about using SimpleTest when he was in Vancouver last summer - the code samples are care of Rok's example custom test.

The story of the Drupal 7 core help update

Submitted by Ariane Khachatourians on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 23:55
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This post was originally posted on my personal blog, but we thought it was worth sharing here.

This one’s all Drupal folks, cause that’s pretty much all I’ve done for the last two and a half weeks. This is what happened when I asked the question, “Is there some reason we don’t just fix it all?” I did not know then what I was getting myself into…

A small inconsistency

It all started in late summer, when I was testing some Drupal 7 core patches for moving fields and image handling into core, and at some point clicked my way into the Help pages. There was a blatant typo on the Node module help, and then a change in language that needed to be made, so on August 1st, 2009 I created an issue for it.

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