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Drupal 6 vs 7

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on August 31, 2011

Drupal 7 was released in January 2011, but is it ready for your next project?

In the last few months, usage of Drupal 7 has finally started to tilt higher. After all, the Drupal community put its weight behind the #D7CX pledge. This community effort was designed to make sure all the popular modules would have a public release on the same day as Drupal 7 itself was released. This effort has improved the up-take rate and solved some of the problems with slow adoption of Drupal 6 after its release in February 2008.

Drupal 6 vs. 7

Drupal Meet Up Scheduled For August 19

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on August 10, 2011

It's been over a year since there's been a Champaign-Urbana Drupal meet-up and its well overdue! If you're a developer, designer, hobbyist or a business user engaged in Drupal, please come and join us. We will be discussing Drupal 7 and the Features Module over a light, informal dinner sponsored by OJC Technologies. Please come out and join us in this effort to build and strengthen our local Drupal community.

Friday, August 19th at 5:30pm

OJC Technologies, Inc.

121 W. Goose Alley Urbana, IL 61801

DrupalCon Chicago 2011 Take-Aways

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on March 20, 2011

Brandon, Lori, Matt, Matt and John crashed the party at DrupalCon Chicago 2011. The conference brought together more than 3,000 members of the Drupal community. The gathering was a great opportunity to track where the Drupal product and community are headed.

Slides for Intro to Accessible Site-Building presentation at DrupalCon Chicago 2011

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on March 9, 2011

Here are the presentation slides (PDF) for Intro to Accessible Site-Building in Drupal. Contact me to request the presentation in an accessible format. The PDF contains screenshots that do not have textual descriptions.

Accessible Site Building in Drupal: a presentation from Drupal Camp Indy

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on October 25, 2010

At Drupal Camp Indy on Saturday there was a great line-up of presentations from beginner to advanced. Doug Vann gave a series of intro presentations while the advanced sessions covered Aegir, Features, Drush and more.

I presented on 'Accessible Site Building in Drupal'. I've incorporated accessibility into my work for years, and recently I've been thrilled to work on Drupal accessibility with clients including the Iowa Department for the Blind and the Illinois Arts Council.

Viewing "New York in Plain Sight"

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on July 7, 2010

New York in Plain Sight is a large-scale photographic survey of everyday life on Manhattan’s streets and sidewalks by photographer Richard Howe. Here at OJC Technologies we have been cooking up ideas for how to present this amazing photographic collection online. The possibilities include a traditional Google Map-style presentation to navigate the city, a keyword search interface, or a directional/spatial way for people to travel up and down Manhattan's avenues.

Drupal 7 Media Module is Must-Have

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 22, 2010

Drupal 7 will ship with improved file and media handling built in. But the add-on Media Module is highly recommended for creating a truly user-friendly experience that allows content authors to add images, audio and video.

Open Top Ten from Tim O'Reilly

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 21, 2010

At DrupalCon 2010, Tim O'Reilly shared his favorite open source technologies and projects. We've compiled a list of the top 10 cutting-edge open resources he shared in his keynote address. Tim is the CEO of O'Reilly Media, publishers of all the IT books with animals on the covers.

Drupal Gardens Tour

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 21, 2010

OJC has been building "web condos" using Drupal and WordPress to make it fast and easy to launch a web site for a community organization, event, or project. Now Drupal Gardens takes the concept to a whole new level. They are unveiling a free online service to launch a Drupal-powered website without worrying about the hosting, installation, setup or ongoing security updates.

CSS3 Tool Tour

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By Brandon Bowersox-Johnson on April 21, 2010

CSS3 is becoming a reality, providing rounded corners, drop shadows, real fonts, gradients, animations and more. The support is good in Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox browsers, and most of these effects will just degrade harmlessly in Internet Explorer.

At DrupalCon 2010, Jen Simmons gave a great presentation on CSS3 and shared lots of useful tools. This screencast gives a quick tour of many of these tools and resources.