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These are my notes from Doug Neiner's talk at the jQuery 2010 conference in Mountain View, California. You can find Doug on Twitter @dougneiner

ThemeRoller 2.0 doensn't have a lot of new features, it just works faster. I was considering calling it SnowThemeRoller.

Overview of ThemeRoller

ThemeRoller allows you to easily apply colors, patterns, opacities, images and textures that you can apply to your site on the fly; once you've configured your theme you can download it and apply it.

Nick Lewis gave this talk about what's happening in Drupal's Design and Architecture at DrupalCon San Francisco 2010. You can find him on Twitter at nicklewisatx

The Kitten Methodology

When I first encountered Drupal, it was a weird box that I didn't really understand, and I just pawed at it for a little while. Now I'm a Drupal expert, and I got here by just playing around with Drupal like this.

Spy on the natives

• Understand the Drupal Culture. Get on IRC and pay attention to what the contributors are saying.

This is a loose transcript of a talk given by Jon Clark of the Aten Design Group at DrupalCon 2010 San Francisco.

Process is a natural part of our work on the web. A pro-client process is a powerfully persuasive tool to pitch your process.

Aten Design Group has an iterative, client-focused process.

These are my notes from Earl Miles' talk on January 24, 2010 at Design4Drupal at the Stanford Law School. The talk was titled Designing with Drupal. It started out with Earl saying:

This is an observation of how it's difficult for new designers to design for Drupal.

This talk was given on January 23, 2010 by Jon Skulski at Stanford University. I've written up my notes below. Enjoy!

This talk is about how can designers can focus on making a website easy to build. What reasonable elements can I use on my site to make it easy to launch. I work as a developer in Chapter Three in San Francisco, a design and development firm.

As a Drupal Architect, I'm an interface between designers and development of the site.

Nica Lorber of Chapter Three just gave a great talk at Design4Drupal Stanford called Drupal Specific Design: A Template Approach. Here are my notes!

Our general process is do a wireframe, then turn it into a Drupal theme. A lot of times you'll miss little details, like the ugly admin tabs you see on a page when you're logged in.

But it looks like a Drupal site!

Drupal 7 is coming, like it or not! With the upcoming release, many theme designers are anxious to know what they'll have to do to migrate their existing Drupal 6-compatible themes to make them work with Drupal 7. Here are the changes I found most interesting:

I love being able to use Webform to quickly whip up a form for a client, like for a web-to-lead page or a contacts database. One customization that clients almost always request is to modify the text on Webform's confirmation page. Unfortunately the way to do this isn't immediately apparent... in fact it's kind of hidden!

Drupal's menu system is highly robust and really customizable through the GUI. One common complaint is that it doesn't highlight parent menu items when one of their children is selected, but this can be solved using Chapter Three's Menutrails module.

However, what if you want more custom control over your menu highlighting? One customer of mine wanted menus on some pages highlighted depending on the path. Good gravy, how do we do that? Here's one way.