Chris and I presented a session at Drupalcon Boston 2008 called Designing for Drupal. We discussed how to make designs more Drupal friendly, both by adapting what you get into Drupal's terms, and by pushing more Drupal knowledge back to designers and other creative folks. Enjoy!

One thing that's become abundantly clear as we sprint toward launching TopNotchThemes: creating a theme that can be used for a variety of sites is a very different project compared to doing a theme for a particular site.

Designing for a single client has its own difficulties in the form of pixel perfection, changing designs, conflicting requirements, fluctuating budgets, and more. But you know what you're shooting for and you can pretty much tell when the theme for a site is done. It reproduces the design, delivers the functionality, and makes the client go "wow!"