While looking around irc for site building support for http://indiandrupal.com, I got into a conversation about reworking Drupal's Admin system. Wordpress and Joomla seemed much more easy to get started with than Drupal although sticking Drupal leads to a lot more than Wordpress or Joomla have to offer.
One thing led to another and then we started off the following thread about reworking Drupal's Core Administration Interface: http://drupal.org/node/211075
Its about time I brought in my User Experience Architecture Skills into Drupal.org.
http://groups.drupal.org/season-usability
http://groups.drupal.org/usability
are groups I've joined regarding usability on drupal.org The coming days and weeks would tell how far my involvement in Drupal's User Experience would be.
I've already offered a way to improve Drupal's Content Add and Content Edit Screens: http://groups.drupal.org/node/8143#comment-25369
Do note, in Drupal, any piece of information can be placed inside a node. Nodes can also be nested inside each other. eg. a picture can be a node. A picture gallery can be a node with a lot more nodes (images) inside it.
As important as files are to a computer's file system, nodes are similar to Drupal's content management system.
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While http://stevejbayer.com and http://stevebayer.net both have a google page rank of 4, I'm mothballing and pulling content from there over to http://stevejbayer.com since stevejbayer.com has a lot more visitors than stevebayer.net
Exercising my theming skills, I've transformed http://stevejbayer.com/resources into a replica of its stevebayer.net counterpart. That's right, I got the pushbutton theme to work on just one page of the site thanks to http://drupal.org/node/139766 while the remaining pages share a different theme. There was a bit of sidebar juggling involved as the theme in use right now (Barron) has the left sidebar as the default sidebar but displays it on the right. A bit of switching php calls and td (gasp a drupal core theme uses tables?)
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