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Acquia adopts the Omega theme for its web site reboot

Submitted by jbeach
on July 18th, 2011 at 10:20:00 PM

In early 2011, Kevin O’Leary, one of Acquia’s UX Jedi, launched an effort to redesign the visual branding of Acquia. By May, the design work was far enough along to allow us to start developing a Drupal theme for a complete reboot of acquia.com. Michael Cooper lead the effort with his team including Mariano Asselborn, Yoni Gray, Rob Loach and Charlie Gordon.  I joined their team for one three-week sprint in order to help them establish the framework of the base theme.

This article presents a high-level discussion.

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Acquia.com and the Omega theme - getting down to brass tacks

Submitted by jbeach
on July 18th, 2011 at 8:40:02 PM

In a previous post, I outlined our experience building a responsive design theme on the Omega theme. Here, I’ll go into some details for those of you who enjoy the technical bits.

Just to recap, in early 2011, Kevin O’Leary, one of Acquia’s UX Jedi, launched an effort to redesign the visual branding of Acquia. By May, the design work was far enough along to allow us to start developing a Drupal theme for a complete reboot of acquia.com. Michael Cooper lead the effort with his team including Mariano Asselborn, Yoni Gray, Rob Loach and Charlie Gordon.  I joined their team for one three-week

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