I didn't catch the video for the Panels portion of this presentation, but I did manage to get the majority of the Skinr demo and discussion. Don't expect any panels information in this post or in the videos.

Thanks to Stephanie Pakrul, Chris Fassnacht, Jay Wolf, and Chris Bryant for presenting.

A podcast of the whole presentation is available on archive.org here:

http://www.archive.org/details/PanelsAndSkinr-StephaniePakrul-Drupalcolorado

The Skinr project can be found on Drupal at: drupal.org/project/skinr

On June 27th, Laura Scott - the President and Creative Director of pingVision did a presentation at Drupalcamp Colorado on Functional Interactive Design. I took a few notes and captured some video from the presentation which I'm offering in this blog post.

Laura started by talking about her early experience with computers that ranged from the movies and TV to punch cards. She talked a bit about pascal and IBM mainframes. She used both a Mac and DOS in grad school making heavy use of Windows 3.1, 95, and NT. In 2002 she adopted the Mac platform.

Laura stressed that the session would not be about theming. She also indicated that the session would not discuss "Beauty for Beauty's Sake." The session would review her thoughts, observations, and things that Laura has learned.

Stephanie Pakrul and Chris Fassnacht from Top Notch Themes discussed Return on Investment and Ubercart. These are my notes from the presentation. I also took video that is broken up into four pieces at the end of this post. I was at the back of the room, so the sound is a little quiet. Hopefully it is still helpful.

They started out by talking about the strongest feature of Ubercart is its automatic integration with Drupal. That makes things relatively easy for the developer.

75% of users make a judgement about your company based on the design of a site. Business metrics can improve drastically with a good design. Quite simply good design can improve your conversion rate and improving you conversion rate is the investment that keeps on giving.

Ben Finklea from Volacci presented SEO optimization for Drupal 6. These are my notes from the presentation. Below that are several videos from his presentation.

Ben started out by underlining that anyone can do Drupal SEO. There are plenty of good modules that you can use to help. There are videos and books that can also help you create a rocking SEO plan.

10 reasons that Drupal is the best platform for SEO

1) Configurable
2) Flexible
3) Stays optimized
4) No duplicate content
5) Clean code
6) Easy to integrate with 3rd party SEO services
7) Fights Spam
8) Allows for landing pages
9) Community Features
10) Thriving Ecosystem

Carl Wiedemann did a basic session on basic Drupal usage as a live demo. These are my notes from the presentation, such as they are. He had a drupal instance set up where he:

We'll explain how high-level user needs translate into Drupal concepts. We'll start building a simple Drupal site with common features such as news, events calendar, downloads, and contact forms.