Drupal Theming: A Tale of Two Websites
Front-end, User Experience and Design
This track covers delivering projects focused on the most important audience—the end user. Learn how to leverage Drupal to help you keep abreast of emerging trends in the mobile, componentized Web world. We’ll show you strategies for fostering collaboration between content creators, designers, strategists, and end-users.
Drupal developers have a wide array of choices when deciding how to theme a site. Options range from deploying an existing framework (e.g. Bootstrap, or NodeJS), customizing a sub-theme or creating a theme from scratch.
This panel discussion will discuss the what-and-why behind choices made and the lessons learned for two sites managed by the Department of Health and Human Services: Usability.gov (entirely custom theme) and HHS.gov (Twitter Bootstrap framework).
Attendees will hear about the circumstances behind each site creation and how the facts on the ground informed the template decisions. Panelists will discuss the pros and cons of each approach, as well as share lessons learned.
Attendee participation is encouraged, so bring your own examples and questions to add to the discussion.