Drupal Asia Pacific Conference

Summary

There is current trend in web interface design towards user customizable, or personalizable, websites.
Take, for example, the new BBC site at http://bbc.co.uk
This session will cover some newer interface techniques including:

• How to make your Drupal blocks drag and droppable in a few minutes
• How to implement basic AJAX callbacks in Drupal using jQuery

Goals/Outcomes

After attending this session, you should be able to go away and recreate and extend these techniques yourself.

Presenter Info

David Thomas is a Senior Developer at Catalyst IT, Wellington, New Zealand. He specializes in web applications development with a particular focus on content management systems.

Summary

Too often, Drupal sites look drab and plain and very much like the default Garland theme. This session discusses why that is and suggests technical and non-technical ways to go about creating truly outstanding looking Drupal websites.

Outline/Plan

The reasons that many Drupal sites look drab and plain.

How to tackle this with:

• project management workflow
• design talent
• theming capabilities of Drupal
• module knowledge and choice

If time, an open discussion of any other tips people have found useful.

Goals/Outcomes

Attendee should leave with a better understanding of how to build outstanding looking websites using any version of Drupal.

Presenter Info

Mark has designed and developed software for over 20 years in fields as diverse as exploration geophysics and health, education and government. He's Managing Director of Caign Group, an IT consulting and web system development company which has implemented over 35 Drupal websites in Australia and abroad.

Summary

The new way of laying out content within Drupal pages. We will cover what panels can do, and how to expand your any part of your site to display content as you wish.

Outline/Plan

-Install Panels, and other useful items
-Creating a new front page.
-Use of Context
-Displaying nodes with panels
-Other cools things to do with panels

Goals/Outcomes

People will know what panels is and an in site into what you can do.

Presenter Info

Drupal Developer and member of the Drupal community for 6 years.

Summary

This session will cover what is new in Drupal 6 from an developer's and themer's perspective. This will include things like the API changes, theme system improvements, Schema API and how to go about upgrading your module.

Presenter Info

I am just an enthusiastic drupaler and hope to show off the new version.

*NOTE* I am looking for someone else that can help me with this presentation