Theming the Enterprise // DrupalCon Copenhagen

In the spring of 2010, when the recession hit my corner of the web world, I went and got myself one of those full-time jobs. Suddenly instead of designing, building and theming each site from beginning to end as a separate project, I found myself in a mosh-pit of 40 developers, developing dozens of sites at the same time. We've been moving a whole "enterprise level" corporation over to Drupal, rapidly theming without any visual designs. Hear about what I've learned, and the strategy I created for best reusing code and coordinating the efforts of the team.

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1. 26. aug 10:00 Room 19 Theming the Enterprise Jen Simmons
2. Jen Simmons designer, front-end developer & Drupal architect Lullabot trainer Bartik theme designer & maintainer working on HTML5 for Drupal http://jen.cm/t
5. Code felt janky & fragile
6. Seemed not very future-proof, flexible, or bullet-proof
7. Really annoying
8. Missed Opportunity
9. But also, it did work. “It runs.”
11. (my) Enterprise Recipe
12. 2 cups: Grid Framework
14. 1 bunch of: Regions in a Template Document
15. utilities logo navigation sidebar first sidebar second content (where nodes go) content bottom content top Drupal tabs preface breadcrumbs Drupal messages pre-footer footer postscript featured
16. 5 parts: Decisions
17. Browser support CSS/HTML versions Font Strategy Accessibility Standards Fallbacks
18. 5 pinches: Coding Standards and Other Such Rules
22. 4 Cups: Skinr (v2)
24. 17 cups: Drupal Architecture
25. Shared Content Types Shared Views Shared Modules shared with Features (+ strongarm)
26. 45,000 teaspoons: Conversation
27. 1 Whole: Parent Theme
28. Lots of process.
29. http://jen.cm/t
30. http://cph2010.drupal.org/node/15513/