So, what is going on? Drupal.org, and groups.drupal.org is going to re-shape their web presence (among other Drupal.org sites). Why? Some serious investigation on usability of Drupal sites have shown that the Drupal insiders can cope with sheer amount of information on a site with 200,000+ registered users - but they mostly just type the web URL in the address bar. It is for sure something that can’t be expected from technology leader of big enterprise who is evaluating new technologies. Neither can someone who just wants to play with new content management system be pushed through all the links and menus just to install the CMS.
This combined with usability of Drupal itself (which, as all insiders know, could be a bit better) has make a lot of people to believe that Drupal is something obscure and buggy and not worth of investing time and energy. Nothing could be far away from truth: well, at least there are some big names http://acquia.com/blog/forrester-research-enterprises-should-keep-eye-dr... that do not think so), but this false impression prevails by the people who have ever heard of Drupal (which is also not as many as you might expect).
Dries & Acquia decided to change something about that and contracted Mark Boulton, a respectful web graphic designer from UK to give our community suggestions and proposals on how to change the current graphic design and improve overall usability of Drupal.org system. Mark made fantastic presentation about the process of changing Drupal.org graphic design. See it for yourself: http://www.archive.org/details/redesign_drupal_org . Info about creating beautiful and still functional web-design is a must-see for every graphic designer and/or drupalist involved in Drupal theming.
Re-design process will be of course reviewed by the community (and peer-reviewed by Acquia stuff), so be welcome to share your ideas about the future of Drupal.org!
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DAY 2
Wow! There was a very nice party of Drupalistas last evening, check here http://flickr.com/photos/tags/drupalconszeged2008/ for the fotos.
For a lot of people that I’ve spoke on the second day of DrupalCon, the presentation of Mark Boulton http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/redesign-drupalorg-desi... was the most interesting between 20 different things going on today.
So, what is going on? Drupal.org, and groups.drupal.org is going to re-shape their web presence (among other Drupal.org sites). Why? Some serious investigation on usability of Drupal sites have shown that the Drupal insiders can cope with sheer amount of information on a site with 200,000+ registered users - but they mostly just type the web URL in the address bar. It is for sure something that can’t be expected from technology leader of big enterprise who is evaluating new technologies. Neither can someone who just wants to play with new content management system be pushed through all the links and menus just to install the CMS.
This combined with usability of Drupal itself (which, as all insiders know, could be a bit better) has make a lot of people to believe that Drupal is something obscure and buggy and not worth of investing time and energy. Nothing could be far away from truth: well, at least there are some big names http://acquia.com/blog/forrester-research-enterprises-should-keep-eye-dr... that do not think so), but this false impression prevails by the people who have ever heard of Drupal (which is also not as many as you might expect).
Dries & Acquia decided to change something about that and contracted Mark Boulton, a respectful web graphic designer from UK to give our community suggestions and proposals on how to change the current graphic design and improve overall usability of Drupal.org system. Mark made fantastic presentation about the process of changing Drupal.org graphic design. See it for yourself: http://www.archive.org/details/redesign_drupal_org . Info about creating beautiful and still functional web-design is a must-see for every graphic designer and/or drupalist involved in Drupal theming.
Re-design process will be of course reviewed by the community (and peer-reviewed by Acquia stuff), so be welcome to share your ideas about the future of Drupal.org!