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

Skinr's main purpose is to allow the theme to define a set of reusable and modular CSS styles, and to make those styles available in Drupal's UI. Skinr was developed for themers to allow them to tap into the power of Drupal's modularity and apply those same principals to theme development.

Skinr allows the theme to define a set of reusable and modulear css styles and to make those styles available in Drupal's UI.

Why do it?

Allows flexible mixed matched styles on blocks and other areas within a Drupal theme. You define the styles in your .info file. At this point the UI is bare bones, but it does work. Skinr supports blocks, views, panels, comments, and nodes.

You can predefine styles and then use skinr to target different blocks - increase, decrease of widths, styles, etc through the blocks admin.

The videos give a walk through of Skinr. I hope they are helpful.