Emma Jane Hogbin, author of Front End Drupal, is coming to Vancouver and we want you to have the opportunity to learn and interact with the best. If you're just starting out or eager to take your Drupal skills to a new level, be sure to join the Vancouver Drupal community for a day of theming fun.

What to Expect

Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The focus is to show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes.

• Prepare and organize content so it’s easier to integrate into Drupal Web sites
• Structure Drupal page templates that are easy to work with
• Configure Drupal with the modules and browser tools you need to customize your site
• Utilize Drupal’s Starter Themes and themes converted from WordPress, Joomla!™, and Drupal 5.x
• Maximize the power and usability of Drupal’s content editing forms
• Build usable community sites with user profiles, comments, and user-generated content

About Emma

Emma Jane Hogbin has been working as a Web developer since 1996, helping individuals and organizations to realize both their own potential and the potential of their online presence. Her first book, Front End Drupal, has been wildly successful and has been responsible for many "A-HA!" moments. Through her business, HICK Tech, Emma enables individuals and small businesses to take control of technology. She is also a frequent speaker at technical events in Canada, the US, and Europe.

Passionate about helping people to acquire knowledge, Emma volunteers with the Drupal and Ubuntu documentation teams. She is well known in the Drupal community not only for her technical knowledge, but also for her engaging and humorous means of bringing Drupal to a wider audience–such as the Drupal socks and their GPLed pattern. She is known as “emmajane” on drupal.org.

Big thanks to...

Irwin Oostindie (aka Dutchphoto) and W2 (http://www.creativetechnology.org/) for their generous accommodation on such short notice.

W2 is a world-class community media arts centre in Vancouver's DTES (Downtown Eastside) opening in Spring 2010. W2 will feature a 150-capacity performance space, community TV studio, FM radio station, gallery, social enterprise café, letterpress studio, telepresence and mobile media programs, and more.

Until we open at Woodward's, we are based at the Perel Building across the street (112 W Hastings), and running programs and media arts residencies.