You have a Mac and no idea of programming. Probably you are a (Graphic) Designer. Who said you can’t design AND develop even complex websites on your own? With Drupal you can! So take your MacBook and fill it with a piece of fresh grilled meat, some lettuce and tomatoes, squeeze it and take a bite.

A Mac centered cookbook to piece together first class Drupal websites without programming:

• Stove, Pot, wooden spoon: some Mac tools you might want to use for online and offline development

Slides as file:  Mac Drupal - DrupalCamp Vienna 2009.pdf

Panels allow us creating multi-column designs. We can use a views-like through-the-web interface to configure specific designs for different sections on our website.
http://drupal.org/project/panels

Introduction
- Panel Pages
- Panel Nodes
- Mini Panels

Advanced
- Page Manager - apply panels on a rules-basis to system pages like node view, node edit etc
- Ctools Context Integration - pass parameters/arguments to panels and forward them to included elements like views
- Custom Layouts - create custom layouts. Use Case: 960.gs Grid System

Slides as file:  Panels_-_Creating_Multi-Column-Layouts_Through-The-Web_-_DrupalCamp_Vienna_2009_dasjo.pdf

These days, everyone talks about grid-based webdesign. The Drupal.org redesign is going to be accomplished that way and there are a couple of grid CSS frameworks available.

This session is not about why you should use grids for your design or the philosophy behind it, it's about how to accomplish grid-based Drupal theming with the 960.gs framework.