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Technical skills in 2015

Recently it became clear to me that tracking technical skills year by year could be an interesting exercise. In this industry you get to work with so many technologies that you later forget, that this idea makes sense not only to stay ahead of the game when it comes to new things, but also as a little time machine to one’s past history. That project you did once using Macromedia Director might remind you of a whole context, a piece of your life.

In that spirit, I researched without much success how to present such a list of skills (the LinkedIn way doesn’t exactly fit what I had in mind), and eventually came up with this:

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Drupal 7 site building case study

Wireframes

In this post we’ll look at some wireframes, and then build the three pages given using contrib Drupal modules.

We may skip or change some elements from the wireframes to fit our purposes.

Source for these wireframes: Park & Bond on Behance (2011-09-21)

Homepage

The first page we are going to build is the homepage. The main blocks to be displayed are:

  • Header: Includes static information, links, and the shopping cart on the first row (we will treat this as static content); the site logo and search form, and a menu below.
  • Slideshow: an arbitrary number of slides, each with a title, subtitle, background image, and optionally a button linking to any page in the site.
  • Featured products: A list of products from a single category, the first of which is shown in a bigger format.
  • Blog sidebar: Includes a contact form, and a list of the latest blog posts.
  • Featured article: A...

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