Drupal 7 freeze means time for a new tag: #D7DX

Laura Scott — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:08:42 +0000

Yeah? Maybe?

[update: maybe not. see comments.]

#D7UX [Tweeted] is about Drupal 7 user experience work.

#D7CX [Tweeted] is about upgrading Drupal contrib modules to stable Drupal 7 releases when Drupal 7 itself is released. Over 100 contributed projects now bear this commitment, which is just awesome!

To me, that leaves #D7DX – a focused effort to get some rockin' Drupal 7 design themes going.

Yes, we have #D4D. And beautiful Drupal 7 themes are part of #D4D. But #D4D is also about Design 4 Drupal events, broader #d4d efforts on Drupal.org, and other design efforts that are happening. But why not a more focused tag, not on making Drupal pretty in general, not on improving the designer's experience in Drupal, but focused just on creating beautiful, semantic, exciting, eye candilicious themes for Drupal 7? For core themes, yes, but also for contrib. All ready and stable by Drupal 7 official release. Now is the time!

I'm writing to myself, here, since for someone who's been working with and designing for Drupal since 2004, I'm very late to the contributed theme party. That has to change.

At any rate, it's an occasion to finally get this blog here out of the Minelli realm. That's a long overdue effort. All I need is a little free time.

Yes.

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