Themes

Review of use cases for Higher Ed 

• Research Apps
• Migrations from D7
• Custom workflow applications

We'll explore the situation PSU was in with multiple Drupal 7 sites, the decision and process of moving to Backdrop, and some of the efficiencies we found along the way to move these sites. 

We've been grappling with this problem for years, lacking any consensus on the best way forward. With discussions of Backdrop CMS 2.x underway, now seems like a good time to figure this out and make a decision. 

In this discussion, I'd like to review the options available and see where the current consensus is at. Much time has passed since this was discussed in detail and some folks may have changed their opinions. Can we build towards a consensus solution?

This is one of those issues that might require a real-time discussion to break the log jam.

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:

What is Sass? What can it do that I can't already do with CSS?

Why might I want to use it?

Is it helpful or would it create barriers?

A discussion around the use of Sass in sub-theming and theming.  See it in action if you've never seen it before and discuss the pros and cons of using it in Backdrop

Learn how to build beautiful sites using out-of-the-box Backdrop layouts and Bootstrap 5 features. 

Aesthetic-Usability Effect

Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.

ProboCI is an open source platform for the testing, debugging, and collaborating on web based projects for Backdrop CMS, Drupal, Wordpress and any PHP based project. It operates on pull requests and generates specific build environments that can be scripted and standardized to provide a uniform way to do both automated and manual testing of modules and interfaces.

I've recently ported a rather complex Drupal 7 theme to a Backdrop layout, and wanted to talk about the experience with others. 

In this mornings session there were questions about how to customize the appearance of your site without creating a new theme.

Let's talk about things like:

• When do you need a custom theme and when can you avoid it?
• When to create a sub-theme of an existing theme.
• Ways to modify an existing theme without a subtheme.
  • CSS Injector 
  • CSS Editor
• Modules that do things that might also be done in a theme
  • Fancy Blocks
  • Configurable Block Styles
  • Sticky Menus