Last week, most of our crew from Mightybytes ventured down to the Sheraton Hotel and Towers to satiate our Drupal appetites. Here’s what we learned.

The three day event brought in thousands of Drupal users, developers, designers, evaluators and businesspeople from around the world. There were information sessions, talks, code sprints, events, excellent keynotes every day by industry leaders, and even a fashion show. Read on to discover what we took away from this great event.

Drupal Gardens' hosted web service offers a great way for designers to get up and running quickly with a Drupal website. Art Director Joy Burke shares the pros and cons of working with this new tool from the fine folks at Acquia.

Joy is building a website with Drupal Gardens for the first time. A hosted solution for rapid creation of Drupal-based websites, Drupal Gardens offers a wealth of features that streamline development time for creating page layouts, adding image galleries, and theming on the fly. It also offers Typekit integration, which allows for great web typography customization. Joy has found that Drupal Gardens simplifies the design process while also throwing in some restrictions as well. Here’s Joy’s take on the Drupal Gardens workflow as well as some tips for getting it up and running quickly.

Drupal Gardens and Typekit are a one-two punch for great web typography that's easy to implement. Here are nine quick steps to integration nirvana.

Are you working on a Drupal Gardens site and need Typekit’s great library of fonts? Or maybe you already have a Typekit account and want Drupal Gardens’ rapid deployment content management features. Both these tools offer a wealth of options for web designers to ramp up their projects. Here’s a quick run-through on getting them to play nice together.

Why three themes are sometimes better than one

We here at Mightybytes always look for ways to make our process better and reuse our knowledge from project to project. Recently this has taken the form of standardizing some of our Drupal theme overrides in a parent theme.

Upcoming workshops and recent presentations on social media, web development, and online strategy by some of our crew.

Take an advanced look at social media for brand awareness in a FREE workshop led by Tim Frick through University of Chicago Consulting Roundtable. Brush up on Drupal knowledge in November with Steve Persch’s Chicago Drupal MeetUp presentation, and check out recent presentations on web strategy and social media for non-profits to download.