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Drupal Gardens adds drop-down menus, reset site, and more

Posted on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 by Chris Brookins
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Last week we pushed out a new Drupal Gardens update containing several very popular requests that we are thrilled to deliver!  In addition, we are now in the home stretch towards a Drupal 7 release candidate, with only 5 critical bugs left as of this post.  The Acquia engineering team has been spending 30% of its time working with the community directly on Drupal 7 core and contrib module efforts, and we are all counting down the days until release.  Exciting times!

Drupal Gardens gets beautiful image galleries and a new look in the August 20th update

Posted on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 by Chris Brookins
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In the last Drupal Gardens survey of site builders, the #1 requested item was image galleries.  We wanted Drupal Gardens' galleries to be built on Drupal 7's new files and fields architecture, and developed using the powerful media and styles modules.

Improved SEO, Media, CSS-view and more in Drupal Gardens' June 30 update

Posted on Wed, Jul 07, 2010 by Chris Brookins
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In addition to the rush the Drupal Gardens team gets when adding cool new features, we like to get things right, striking a good balance between power and simplicity.  In the last sprint, we spent a bunch of time polishing the powerful XML Sitemap and Media modules with a focus on simplifying the UX and providing smart defaults so they work immediately after site creation.  Out of the box, these modules are highly customizable with many configuration settings.  Our goal was to red

A great kickoff of design.acquia.com as a design-focused Drupal resource

Posted on Tue, Jul 21, 2009 by Jay Batson
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It is so amazing to have a great, global community of passionate Drupalists. It usually means that you can quickly find people who are of like mind that want to help the Drupal world grow in ways that are new, unique, and useful. Today is no exception: I'm happy to say that Jeff Burns and Acquia have partnered to merge his 3rd World Themes project into Acquia's design-oriented microsite design.acquia.com.

Drupal Design tipping point?

Posted on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 by Jay Batson
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This weekend, 150+ people assembled at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge for the first-ever Design4Drupal Camp. This was unique in that a large majority of the attendees were deeply involved in design - not just coding modules. While some of the usual suspects were there, many designers were meeting each other for the first time.

Beautiful Drupal - growing the designer community and its impact

Posted on Thu, Jun 11, 2009 by Jay Batson
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I'm happy to have seen the good response to my "What shall we do about themes?" post. I'm particularly glad to see a bunch of self-described designers participating, and to see the thoughtfulness of the comments.

From the 50+ comments, a few consistent messages emerged (no editorial pen here; just consolidating / summarizing):

    Drupal Design Camp Boston

    Drupal Design Camp Boston attendees will learn and share knowledge about Drupal’s powerful templating system. Over the two days, you can expect to gain knowledge on how to use starter themes, custom templates, modify code that Drupal produces, and how use jQuery and JavaScript to enhance user experience. Also, Drupal fundamentals are part of the framework.

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