Videos tagged with beginner

Although the actual scale of the issue is arguable, it's well established in the Project Management community that a very significant proportion of failed projects are due to poor requirements gathering in the early stages of defining project. There are many approaches, and no magic solutions - but I'll outline one approach that we take, utilising a Mindmap to reduce the technobabble, and assis...

In 2007 my team and I decided to move our main web sites to Drupal. Things were great - at first. A few years later, things were not going so well any more, and we eventually moved to a different system. Find out what mistakes we made, what we did right, and where we went wrong with migrating data in, views, multi-site setups, caching, giving our users the functionality they wanted and running ...

In 2010, the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development provided funding to a range of Strategic Partners to produce original Web 2.0 content for Victorian schools to be hosted on the FUSE educational portal. The projects were designed to encourage engagement, collaboration, and authentic work in a range of ways across the curriculum. Nine of them were developed using Dru...

There are so many e-commerce frameworks and systems out there, and lets face it - Drupal has been pretty light on when it has come to anything of any quality. Drupal Commerce changes everything - and gives Drupal a truly enterprise set of building blocks for commerce stores. Come along to this session to get a basic overview of Drupal Commerce, learn how entities relate to products relate to vi...

We host hundreds of small-to-medium Drupal sites, half 'regular' 'ol websites, and the other half online stores. We jumped in deep end with Drupal when we started the company 2.5 years ago, and have learnt a lot along with way as we deliver online solutions to the huge small business segment.

You've got a great idea for a new site, and the technical chops to pull it together - all that's missing now is the killer content that's going to keep your visitors coming back for more. We'll talk about some easy techniques you can use to make your website copy great -- and avoid sounding like a marketing robot!.

Drupal is a great tool for building dynamic websites, but the learning curve can be huge particularly for people coming from a non-coding background. Presented by a non-coding developer who jumped from static HTML into Drupal with much hair pulling and frustrated documentation trawling, this session is designed for Drupal beginners, particularly those wanting to move from static HTML or other t...

I spent last week in England – but not on a vacation. In this episode I process one of the “tourist shots” made on the class trip following a workflow guide made from Bill in Belize. This guide will be published here in some time, there is still some work needed. It covers all the basic steps for polishing up an image. The second part of the show covers a question from Bill: How to publish some...

I was out on a photo walk with a GIMPer from Bremen. One of these shots is post processed in this show. Nothing special, just adjusting the colours with a curve in two different parts of the image. Of course a layer with mask is used to separate the different areas and explained again for the new GIMP users. The really new information is about uploading images from F-SPOT to 23 and flickr. You ...

It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad - only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of da...