ibm – D’Arcy Norman dot net https://darcynorman.net no more band-aids Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:21:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://darcynorman.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/crankforpeace3-552f33a1v1_site_icon-32x32.png ibm – D’Arcy Norman dot net https://darcynorman.net 32 32 1067019 IBM DeveloperWorks series on setting up Drupal community sites https://darcynorman.net/2006/07/11/ibm-developerworks-series-on-setting-up-drupal-community-sites/ Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://715283004 IBM developerWorks has started a series of articles detailing what's involved with planning and implementing a fully featured community website - using Drupal. It's a pretty good read (so far) and touches on issues that aren't unique to Drupal. But, it's nice to see Drupal getting some Big Corporate Loving™ Much of the articles are spent describing necessary customization for making Drupal sites behave nicely. Dries Buytaert (the lead of the Drupal project) hints that good news is in the works... The second article, "Design for an effective user experience" is a good overview of the process that every website should go through. Defining purpose, audience, roles, personas, etc... So many websites skip this, and result in PR-driven shovelware...]]> IBM developerWorks has started a series of articles detailing what’s involved with planning and implementing a fully featured community website – using Drupal.

It’s a pretty good read (so far) and touches on issues that aren’t unique to Drupal. But, it’s nice to see Drupal getting some Big Corporate Loving™

Much of the articles are spent describing necessary customization for making Drupal sites behave nicely. Dries Buytaert (the lead of the Drupal project) hints that good news is in the works…

The second article, “Design for an effective user experience” is a good overview of the process that every website should go through. Defining purpose, audience, roles, personas, etc… So many websites skip this, and result in PR-driven shovelware…

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