Web Design

Some good things about this design

/ minikahlon

I was looking at people/firms with design expertise for Drupal, and unfortunately even though some looked like they’d designed well for others (though nothing spectacular) their own firm web site were nothing to write home about.  Which, for a design firm, is dissapointing.

Through one firm though I came across this drupal site, which has some positives.  I like the way they have news and events (and how they break up the top nav bar  a bit)  You may be interested in looking at the site as you think of new home page designs.

Module Tabs Design

/ Katja Reuter / 3 Comments

Using the space on our homepage efficiently and emphasizing priorities can be somewhat challenging. I find the module tabs design on the PLoS Medicine homepage interesting. Cynthia, maybe this is something for you to explore? What about using this concept for our sections events, deadlines and news? This way we could save space on the page, combining them in one block, and add to the tool “filter by” that already exists.

Tips & Tricks for UCSF Web Workers

/ Katja Reuter

Marc Cepeda from the UCSF School of Medicine Information Services Unit has developed a blog “Web Workers Notebook” with “tips & tricks” as a resource for all UCSF web workers. So far he for example covered issues like Dreamweaver Site Cache, web file naming, Flush Cache Tab, embedding Flash video and MP3 audio files.  Take a look.

Mega Menus

/ Cynthia Piontkowski / 3 Comments

An appealing alternative to standard hard to navigate dropdown menus; options are shown in one large panel that allows for categorization, icons, etc. Article at Sitepoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/30/mega-drop-down-menus/

Examples:

I suspect it would be a challenge to implement in Drupal, but not impossible.