The Gin admin theme has been ported (is being ported) to Backdrop from modern Drupal, and I'm curious if people have any thoughts about the future. This is an open conversation for people who love Gin, don't like Gin, or don't even know about Gin.
We are looking for 5 people to give a short demo of a module or theme. Either a module they maintain or just one they like to use. Could be an obscure module that site architechts should know about or a more popular module that you love to use.
We have five slots during this session:
Gin is a popular admin theme for modern Drupal. Sascha Eggenberger (Gin's creator and maintainer for Drupal) and I have been working on a port to bring this fresh UI to Backdrop.
Examples of things this conversation could cover:
WordPress powers over 40% of websites on the internet. It offers a user-friendly interface, a vast library of plugins and themes, and a large community of developers and users who contribute to its ongoing development and support. There are over 455 million active installations of WordPress software, compared to...fewer Backdrop installations.
The views module is a powerful tool that allows site administrators to create complicated and dynamic displays of their content without writing any code or knowledge of database queries.
The Friends of the Mississippi have been using Drupal for a long time and have accumulated 1000's of pieces of content (nodes). Their website is an important tool in their daily efforts to engage with the community to protect, restore and enhance the Mississippi River and its watershed in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) region.
Learn how to build beautiful sites using out-of-the-box Backdrop layouts and Bootstrap 5 features.
How one nonprofit landed on Backdrop after several false starts (including a few with Backdrop), from specifications to launch. This session is for anyone who is still debating whether to use Drupal, Backdrop, or some other CMS, or for those new to Backdrop who want to know more about how to avoid the mistakes and frustrations we made getting to launch.
Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.
Too many options available in the admin UI are causing content editors to be overwhelmed and have a less-than-ideal user experience. There are currently ways to make things better, but that involves installing multiple contrib modules and spending time/energy to tweak/configure/customize things, so this usually does not end up being done. We can and we should make it easier, so that site builders can deliver projects which provide a much better and streamlined UX for content authors.