About

The Principal

Emma Jane HogbinLed by internationally renowned technical author and trainer, Emma Jane Hogbin, Design to Theme teaches designers how to make beautiful Web sites. Emma's first book, Front End Drupal, is recognized in the industry as the most important book for Drupal designers. She has been teaching internet technologies since 2002 and has been building Web sites for over ten years. She is a frequent speaker at technical conferences in Canada, the US and Europe and she also likes single malt whiskey. These two things are probably not related.

Emma is a highly sought-after speaker and trainer. Her presentations have taken her to France, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, New Zealand, England and the United States. In addition to her engaging conference presentations, Emma has also worked as a technical college instructor at Humber College and Seneca College, and has worked on curriculum development for Humber College and the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Emma encourages non-traditional participation in technology through craft and believes that everyone is capable of mastering the tools that surround them. To help engage new ways of participating in technology, she open sourced one of her knitting patterns so that you can make your very own Drupal Socks (as featured in CRAFTzine).

The Clients

Design to Theme works primarily with two types of clients: designers employed by large institutions who have been employed in their current job for several years and are looking for training to update their skills. We also work with staff at not-for-profit agencies and small businesses who theme and deploy Drupal. Our clients are struggling to make Drupal look the way they want it to within a reasonable amount of time. We teach our clients step-by-step, repeatable techniques that allow our clients to theme any element in Drupal.

Design to Theme helps clients to:

  • deliver highly customized themes faster
  • improve relationships with developers, designers and other team members
  • raise their rates as they deliver excellent output faster
  • organize and find templates to easily create similar features on future projects
  • more accurate time estimates yielding higher profits