A little bit of foresight and planning went a long way in the creation of the new tour website for rock legends R.E.M. I'd like to take a moment to share with everyone the approach we took in creating the RSS powered social media website that centralizes concert media from various sources across the web.

Today I found a very informative blog post on the boxes and arrows user interface and web usability website that talks all about creating a better search experience for website visitors. During the Birds of a Feather session at DrupalCon Boston many of these key aspects of search were discussed and are on the agenda to be addressed at the Minnesota Search Sprint next weekend.

Last weekend we held our first hands on Drupal Theming and Site Building workshop. The workshop was a success in helping the participants fully visualize the process that is known as Drupal theming. Many contributed modules were covered like Views, Panels, CCK, Emfield and more. Special attention was given to the properly using template file overrides and working with the template.php file from the Zen theme.

Today I am posting some of the notes and code snippets that were used during instruction and demonstration for all to enjoy.

Basic Theme Variable Debugging