Up until this week, our design and usability team hasn’t been dealing with any drastically foreign concepts. Creating wireframes in Adobe Illustrator and mockups with HTML and CSS isn’t anything we can’t handle. However, recently we got to the point when we needed to start integrating our work into Drupal, the Reporter’s content management system. At first, this seemed rather intimidating. Our team has worked with WordPress before, but Drupal is clearly a different animal. You can’t just go to the dashboard, click on “Posts” and stick in an article. Luckily, we have an experienced Drupal consultant to help us out. He split the integration process up into seven steps. Here’s what we’ve completed this week: -Coming up with a schema and content types In Drupal, you have to organize your site by … Read entire article »