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Open Atrium and Iterations

Posted 30 June 2011 by Laura Scott

Too busy doing the doing to talk about the doing?

As a strategy and design studio, we're all over communications. It's an uninterrupted conversation with our clients, hashing out...

The best user interface is the one you don't notice

Posted 29 June 2011 by Laura Scott

We all want beautiful things. A beautiful graphic user interface is no exception. But how do you define beauty? Pretty colors? Balanced composition? Elegant typography? Appealing trimmings? Grid...

Announcing Apache Solr Pages

Posted 5 April 2011 by Robin Monks

Ever needed to produce functionality in Drupal that multiple modules came really close to providing — but none of them seemed to get it quite right? We recently experienced this issue when needing...

Lucidly Drupal: Setting up Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid LAMP stack for your Drupal site

Posted 16 March 2011 by Laura Scott

We're frequently setting up servers for development, for staging, for production. I've lately preferred the Debian flavor of Linux, but up until now that had been something of a problem because...

Grok Drupal 7 Theming - update

Posted 20 February 2011 by Laura Scott

Earlier this month at Drupal Design Camp Los Angeles 2011, I presented an update on Grok Drupal (7) Theming, which I had...

A New Year. A New Drupal. (A New Era.)

Posted 5 January 2011 by Laura Scott

2010 was an amazing year. But 2011 has come in with such a bang, it's impossible not to look forward.

Drupal 7 is...

Gratitude

Posted 4 January 2011 by Laura Scott

We would not be here today without our clients of the past year. They are our purpose. They are the air we breathe.

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PINGV Creative's DrupalCon Proposals

Posted 17 December 2010 by Laura Scott

DrupalCon Chicago session proposal voting is open. This time around we've proposed a couple of sessions. If they sound interesting to you, please vote for them! To help ensure that DrupalCon is...

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On grids in design (and announcing the Square Grid Drupal theme)

Posted 16 December 2010 by Laura Scott

Grids. They're powerful. They're helpful. They can make design work much easier. (And occasionally harder.) They can be used for good or ill. And they can trap the designer in a cage of vertical...

Rethinking the LAMP stack — Drupal Disruptive Open Source Part 2

Posted 2 December 2010 by Katherine Lawrence

Is Drupal a Disruptive Technology?

What if Harvard College takes on Notre Dame in football. Of course we can beat them; after all, they're only men.

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HTML5 + RDFa = time to get rid of that 20th century furniture

Posted 23 August 2010 by Laura Scott

We're entering a new era of the web. To the ignorant masses, this transition will go largely unnoticed; they'll enjoy increased usability and convenience, with more robust functionality and more...

Floater Theme to get away from columns

Posted 25 July 2010 by Laura Scott

As a part of wanting to throw out some of the outdated design furniture of the 20th century, I created a new theme to simply float content elements against each other.

Contributed in a...