Drupal

Performance optimization is a key element of every website development and often is not considered in the process of designing and theming. We have put together several tips which can help you to improve your site's performance from the Drupal's front-end perspective. I hope you will find these tips useful.

Use YSlow to identify problems

As on most of our projects we use YSlow as a tool for front-end performance testing and optimization. It helps us to identify problems and suggest a way to improve performance based on the set of rules for high performance websites.

Drupal 7 is here and now you can help creating the buzz around it and promoting Drupal with you custom Twitter background and Facebook profile images. Here is a quick tutorial on how to pimp your Twitter & Facebook profile with this awesome Drupal 7 images.

Facebook

How to: Download the images below. Change your profile pic to profile-pic.jpg and upload all other images 1-5.jpg. A a next step you will have to tag yourself on all 1- 5 images starting from 5 and going to 1. Download profile images and source PSD

Twitter

YourTango.com is a popular American online magazine, where you can find a lot of articles about the opposite sex, you can get advice about health of your relationship, or just have some “smart talk about love”. It’s been almost 5 months, when we first started working with YourTango team on a big migration from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6. One Saturday at the end of November was the day when this work has been deployed into production. Our work included some functionality changes, custom code refactoring, and we implemented a couple of page redesigns as well. Basically we have built most of the project’s custom functionality from scratch, and migrated data into this very fresh site, built on Drupal 6. The migration had to include whole bunch of data - 37 000 users, 78 000 nodes, 15 000 images, comments and taxonomy terms. This was one of the challenges, but there are also other interesting things on this project we can discuss.

End-users of this site participate in the content-creation process in a very significant way. There are several roles, which include the standard users registered on site, relationship and psychology professionals (“Experts” section), content editors and administrators.

To celebrate Drupal 7 release on January 5th we would like to share these wallpaper calendars. It is based on the official Drupal 7 get started & release party banners that we have created. Hope you will like it and that you will enjoy the new and awesome Drupal 7. Download the Photoshop PSD source file

Have you ever needed a sample content to fill your designs or website examples? Are you tired of the usual Lorem Ipsum? Here are 6 tools that will generate a different dummy content that you are not used to. Plus bonus links for extensions for your favourite CMS or browser.

Fillerati.com

About: I made Fillerati because I grew tired of reading "Lorem ipsum..." on every new design I was working on. It's built with HTML5 and CSS2/CSS3, and consequently is best viewed in a modern browser Example: "'A pretty scholar,' laughed the Lakeman. 'Adios, Senor!' and leaping into the sea, he swam back to his comrades. "Watching the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due time arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. There, luck befriended him; two ships were about to sail for France, and were providentially in want of precisely that number of men which the sailor headed. They embarked; and so for ever got the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution.