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Here at Shomeya we have been making some changes to our design process, and Sarah has started to write about the creative process but I thought I would cover some of the technical challenges. We decided to use SASS and Compass to develop the visual look and feel of our site (I'll leave the 'why' for another article) and needed to find a way to make Compass play nice with Drupal.
Training is one of my passions, and we are so excited to announce that in February we will be holding training seminars on the two hottest and recently most time consuming topics for Shomeya and Drupal: D7 & Git.
In the course of building our new website on Drupal 7 I wanted to get to know some of the cooler new features that are now available, after spending the last three years salivating over commits and code that wasn't always 100% stables (even though it was 99.99% stable for the most part).
This is the first post in a three part series on the re-design process of Shomeya.com, and what we learned. Getting started was actually the hardest point, for every method of web-design there are five different tools you could use. We looked at everything from hosted, adobe, and free solutions like google docs and tried most of them
As the world takes in all the changes in Drupal 7, the developers are already tirelessly moving onto Drupal 8. So before we get into how awesome D7 is we would like to thank all of the collaborators that we have worked with off and on for the past three years. D7 contributors you are truly a remarkable group of people to see this difficult journey through with such incredible results.