Some takeaways from DrupalCon Denver 2012, with an emphasis on mobile design and View Modes.

1. DrupalCon 2012 Roundup
University of Maryland Drupal
Users Group

2. Recurring Topics
 Mobile
 Drupal 8
 CSS Preprocessors

3. Where is Drupal Now?
 1.5 million sites (6.7% of CMS market,
which is 30% of websites
 Strengths
 Weaknesses

4. Where is Drupal headed?
Time to kick ass with Drupal 8!

5. Drupal 8
 Mobile, mobile, MOBILE! (Get it yet?)
 Symfony will replace large portion of core
 HTML5 is default output
 Timeline

6. Mobile (First!)
 Mobile is outpacing non-mobile
 Mobile forces us to strip to essentials

7. Mobile First: Direction
 Program for mobile, increase if appropriate

8. Mobile First: Focus
SouthWest Desktop SouthWest Mobile

9. Mobile First: Gains
 A good user experience
 Use responsive design

10. Looking Good!
Techniques for lovely layouts with less mess
Views
Awesome database queries,
less code!
View Modes
Better displays, less code!

11. Looking Good:
Views
 “Visual database
query editor”
 Views can find almost
any information about
an entity or group of
entities and display it
any way you like it!

12. Looking Good:
Other things views can do
 Allow visitors to sort
or otherwise filter the
results
 Attach views to other
views

14. Looking Good:
Other things views can do
 Allow visitors to sort
or otherwise filter the
results
 Attach views to other
views
 Group and paginate
results
 Count the number of
results in a group

17. Looking Good:
View Modes

18. Looking Good:
View Modes

19. Looking Good:
View Modes
function agnr_extrafields_entity_info_alter(&$entity_info) {
$entity_info['node']['view modes'] += array(
'subtitle_teaser' => array(
'label' => t('Subtitle Teaser'),
'custom settings' => TRUE,
),
);
}

20. Looking Good:
View Modes
Extra
Fields

21. Views + View Modes =
More awesome, less code!
 Modules
bit.ly/view-modes