Sessions at Frontend United on Friday 20th April

You know how to make flexible content types, how to structure your site with custom paths and menus, and how to create dynamic lists of content with Drupal. And yet - you've found the limitations of the core block system to place the content on your site. Now you want to know how you can get control of where content is placed in your page structure.

This one day course is based on our 2 day Drupal Layout and Theming course. Full description on training.acquia.com.

Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, it's essential that you have site building skills. As well as familiarity with HTML and CSS. PHP is not required. Site building skills are outlined on our Drupal in a Day and Site Building course descriptions.

What you'll do:
Create a custom theme in Drupal.
Learn the essential PHP you need to make a theme in Drupal.
Understand when to configure and when to code.
Price
Price: 150 € (max 20 seats).

We all know that the theme layer in Drupal can be much better. It's time that we really take a deep look into the arrays of doom and improve it instead of complaining.

The same weekend Frontend United will set a landmark for frontend development in the Drupal community, our friends in the United States are doing a sprint in

San Francisco. This is a unique chance to get a say in what we need and want as proud frontend devs.

We will discuss and sprint all Friday with the group in the States and help them out all weekend with usual inputs.

To get more background information, have a look at the sprint page: http://groups.drupal.org/node/21...

Also, this is a must read post from Drupal 8 HTML5 initiative lead Jacine:
http://jacine.net/post/196527052...
http://denver2012.drupal.org/con...

Building Drupal sites mobile first with lazy loading, responsive media and Varnish - without driving anyone insane. A combined session, technical overview, half-baked solution and hands-on workshop.

Part I: Why Mobile First?
An introduction to the mobile first approach and a quick walkthough of responsive webdesign principles and methods.

Why mobile first
Benefits
Challenges
Alternatives
Part II: The challenges: lazy loading & responsive media
A presentation of two core technical challenges for building (Drupal) sites mobile first: Lazy loading of content and responsive media.

Requirements for a Drupal solution
Common approaches for lazy loading?
Different approaches for responsive images.
Pitfalls and alternatives.
Part III: Requirements for a Drupal solution
A presentation and discussion of the requirements for a working Drupal solution for mobile first websites, including lazy, conditional loading of content, adaptive or responsive images that works with both logged in users and Varnish reverse proxy.

Part IV: Hands-on design and development
In which you start out by saying 'Oh, that's easy. You just ...'

Hopefully we can design or - dare we say it - actually build a fully cooked, working Drupal solution for going mobile first.

Bring out the obscure hooks and get your coding chops on!