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Revolution in end-user documentation! Say hello to Inline Manual

By Marek Sotak on Fri, 2013-05-10 14:18

Let's face it. Making documentation for end-users (content editors, administrators, etc...) is the most painful process of all the processes when it comes to handing over a project to the client. Hard to estimate, time consuming to create, never up to date, almost impossible to re-use, change one thing and you have to rebuild all the screenshots, realisation that nobody reads it, etc... Sounds familiar?

DA Elections 2013 - I am voting for better Drupal in EU

By Marek Sotak on Sun, 2012-09-23 17:22

Only few hours left till the DA Elections will be open to voting and I am going to vote for Morten.

Reload CSS bookmarklet - speed up theming

By Marek Sotak on Fri, 2012-08-03 11:39

While working on just CSS changes on your Drupal website, it can sometime take ages to reload on performance heavy pages.
Here is a bookmarklet I've found by Erik A. Hanson and improved by Josh L that allows you to just refresh the CSS files without reloading the whole website (hitting the server). Just grab the link below to your bookmarks and click it whenever you want to refresh the styles.

More on 3D Drupal visualization, now in browser

By Marek Sotak on Mon, 2012-04-30 22:36

Those who are following know, that I am experimenting with different ways how to explain designers Drupal in my workshops. The tilt extension worked fine but was not flexible enough (for me) being it written for Firefox. The more I learned about CSS3 I knew I am on the right way to have something out of this. Here is the current result. It is in the early stage, but quite soon I will get where I want with this. Right now it is working with the default Drupal classes, but can be easily extended.

Drupal Inline Form Errors

By Marek Sotak on Mon, 2012-03-12 19:00

For the last two years I am bending Drupal UI as much as possible and approach it rather differently than I did before. Hacking the modules is not a scarry part of the development process anymore, while keeping the patches with changes available for later upgrades. It does come with a price that you have to be careful and review every upgrade, but it also has its benefits in freedom of doing it your way. Sometimes the workarounds (Drupal way) takes longer than changing one line in the code and usually these changes are often not re-usable and of no use to others.

Visualise Drupal site in 3d using Tilt

By Marek Sotak on Thu, 2011-11-03 09:13

Last week I've stumbled upon a firefox extension called Tilt which is aiming to be a DOM inspector such firebug but in 3D using WebGL. You might know that I have been trying several styles/visualizations to make the Drupal structure more readable for my workshops (Visual Drupal, isometric grids in presentations, workflows,...) and actually been trying to visualize the Drupal site using the animations on hovers to lets say highlight the regions, blocks, etc... Didn't get much far with this, so when I saw the Tilt extension I immediately tried to adjust it to what I had in my mind for long time. After tweeting about it I've got some feedback, some people were saying it is cool, but what is the usage, so let me explain some of the ideas.

Visual Drupal

By Marek Sotak on Mon, 2011-08-01 22:53

The idea of having an interactive overview of Drupal phases emerged from various Drupal workshops I did in the past months. People were looking into the materials and the workflows on the paper, but it wasn't interactive, nor it was possible to give it a different function (name) to try it out what it does instead of general function names, which are hard to understand for newbies.

Drupal Design Camp Berlin - 25-26.6.2011

By Marek Sotak on Wed, 2011-06-08 06:42

Drupal design camp Berlin 2011

Where all the EU Drupal front-end developers and designers will be in June 25th & 26th? Yes, in Berlin for Drupal Design Camp!

After a successful Design Camp in Prague last year, we are organising another camp for all you folks that either would like to learn about theming, push the Drupal design into another dimension (learn and talk about Drupal 8 Design initiative) or just hang out and meet the cool people.

Making the government data open with Scraperwiki and Drupal, pt.1

By Marek Sotak on Sat, 2011-04-16 12:24

On March 19th, 2011, I have attended a conference called The Big Clean here in Prague. It was organised in two cities - Prague (Czech) and Jyväskylä (Finland) - as a pre-event of a global event that will be organised later this year.

The Big Clean is a a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to access, clean, organise & re-use local Government Data.

Drupal theming training in your area organised by you - community

By Marek Sotak on Sat, 2011-02-19 13:35

The title says it all. I love to travel, meet new people, experience local community and share my knowledge - I do believe a lot of folks in Drupal community have the same passion. I had this idea in my head for quite some time, but I was slightly concerned about it. Then in September 2010 Gabor Hojtsy wrote a blog post Drupal couch surfers - an idea, which helped me to take on more confidence and try it. Few months later, I would like you to meet the idea of community organised trainings, instead of waiting for trainers to come to your area. Read more >

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