Drupalcamp Boston provided an exclamation point to the first sentence of the Design for Drupal movement. Since the movement kicked off at Drupalcon DC designers and themers have been talking more, sharing notes, learning to flex more Drupal muscle, and providing more to help make Drupal even better. At drupalcamp boston this all came together in one place.

Sharing Notes

Lots of ideas were shared at the drupalcamp. The popular session was about using grids, the 960 grid, and the Drupal theme that uses it by Nathan Smith and Todd Nienkerk. Beyond this session there were sessions on rapid prototyping, theme techniques, usability, typography, theming workflows, and so much more.

New Ideas

One of the bright new ideas presented was skinr. Where modules can easily be reused from site to site themes usually contain branding you can't share from site to site. To fill this void base these like Zen, Studio, and Moshpit have been created. But, theming can happen at a more granular level.

Imagine having a themed feature you want to use from site to site like the design on the Drupal tabs. You don't need an entire base theme to move this theming from site to site. That's where skinr comes in and let's you reuse chuncks of theming from site to site.

Blazing Forward

Though the whole camp there was a feeling that this camp was just a stepping stone. Jeff Robbins first day keynote kicked off this feeling. Jay Batsons second day keynote where we talked about gaining momentum helped us see where we could go from here.

Jay recorded a list of steps we came to that start to paint a picture of what's needed to take this to the next level. A place we're excited to go full of possibilities we've only now begun to dream about.

Interested?

If you're interested in getting involved in this movement please head over to groups.drupal.org/d4d where you can learn more.