Next meeting Wednesday, December 14, 2011 @ 6:30 pm
Location:
Webster 102 on Amherst College campus
https://www.amherst.edu/users/H/dhamilton/drupal_meetings
Many thanks to David Hamilton for again arranging the space!
AGENDA: Make suggestions or proposals in the comments; will revise details here as we have them.
Drupal Camp MA 2012
We'll talk about this at the meetup too. Anyone interested in helping out, doing a sessions, etc., please come.
Drupal Camp MA 2012 here: http://drupalcampma.com
2011 (FYI):http://2011.drupalcampma.com/program/sessions
Quickstart
Quickstart is a great pre-configured Ubuntu Linux based site building and development environment. It runs inside VirtualBox, a free virtual machine that can run on Windows, Linux or Mac OS. - Jim Skowyra
Responsive Design, Grids and "themes that do too much (?)" in Drupal Theming
Things can get confusing when trying to figure out whether and how to do a responsive website design, CSS grid layouts, and whether to use themes like Omega to implement. Discussion on these issues, including which is "better", a theme like Omega that does a lot, but stores settings (such a media queries) in the DB, or a bare bones theme where you do much more in code (template files, media queries) etc. - Rick Hood
examples responsive sites:
http://bostonglobe.com/
http://www.alistapart.com/d/responsive-web-design/ex/ex-site-larger.html
http://colly.com/
http://hicksdesign.co.uk/
Newb's Intro To Git
For 10+ years I worked freelance and more or less on my own so had no real need for version control. Now I work with others and had to get used to version control and learn Git. I an give a newb's overview of how to use Git; just what you need to know, not more, not less. - Rick Hood
