Drupal Site for a Northern Virginia / Washington, DC Economic Organization
Drupal site for a Northern Virginia / Washington DC Economic Organization: http://t.co/USPUonJm
We maintain a large Drupal 6 site for a northern Virginia county government. This particular client is a county government organization and as such we cannot disclose their name on our site. Please contact us so that we can share additional details.
- Client: Withheld at client request
- Link: URL wittheld
- Location: Northern Virginia
new site: USAID-funded Non-profit for Washington DC aid agency
New Drupal 7 site fort USAID-funded non-profit in Washington, DC: http://t.co/t8kMPWZQ.
We built a site for a public health non-profit called using Drupal 7. It is set up using the Drupal content management system so that staff can manage the site on their own. It features integrated blog RSS feeds from four separate external blogs. It also features integrated maps of projects, using a Drupal integration of the Google Maps API. The project is funded by USAID and is managed by FHI 360, CARE and Winrock International.
Name and link withheld due to client confidentiality. Please contact us to find out more about this project.
Drupal 8 Roadmap
Drupal 8 has been in the works for some time now, and looks pretty exciting. We’re particularly excited about web services becoming part of Drupal core, rather than being something you can add on. We have built custom web services applications for Joomla & SouthWare e-commerce sites, but would love to be able to do that more easily in Drupal too.
Drupal 7.10 Released
Drupal 7.10 Released http://t.co/yCLyyGbs
Drupal 7.10, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) is now available for download. Several major bugs, including one causing errors with the 5.x branch of Drush, have been fixed this release. See the Drupal 7.10 release notes for a full listing.
Read more: http://drupal.org/drupal-7.10
Get ready for Joomla 2.5!
Joomla 2.5 (formerly codenamed 1.8) is coming out any day now, short on the heels of winning 2011′s Packt CMS award.
This is the next major release in the series, which started with 1.0 in the Mambo days, progressed to the now very stable 1.5, and on to 1.6/1.7, which were intended as a stepping stone to 2.5. We have seen conflicting reports of an early January or late December release date. Either way, there will be a period of months in which Joomla users plan their migration to 2.5. If you are not using too many extensions you could probably migrate fairly painlessly (a migration tool is reportedly in the works).
Emerald Education Systems – Drupal Site
Emerald Education Systems http://t.co/HvQQjplW - low vision rehabilitation site using Drupal 6 for a customer in Baltimore, Maryland. Integrated with online courses. Site also integrates feeds from another site, pplvr.com.
Drupal 7 Site for electronics manufacturer
We built a new Drupal 7 site for EIT, an electronics manufacturer based in Sterling, Virginia: http://t.co/L1jVOfPL.
EIT, LLC ($75+ M/yr) is located in Sterling, Virginia and has been providing complete electronic design, assembly and test services since 1977. EIT’s old site was built using static HTML pages and was becoming outdated. EIT staff needed a way to edit pages without involving web developers in every content change. In addition, EIT’s southern Virginia facility (in Danville) had its own site at eitsouth.com, the contents of which needed to be merged into the main corporate site at eit.com.
We designed and built a new site from the ground up using Drupal 7, configured in such a way that designated staff members could edit pages. The page editor supports content revisions, so that editors can roll back to a previous version at will. The design features an image slideshow on the home page and a customized header image for each area of the site. The Careers page allows the HR derpartment to add job openings that candidates can apply for on the spot, including the required EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) form. Submitted form data is emailed to relevant personnel within the company, and can be exported to CSV or Excel formats.
Front Page Slideshow Link Problem
FPSS is a great slideshow addon for Joomla, Drupal, and standalone slideshows.
They have a new version for Joomla 1.7, with a much improved interface. When it comes to linking slides, it seems you can choose to display links for all slides, or not. But what if you want links on some slides but not others? In such a case, if the user did not supply a URL, the link will say “http://www.yoursite.com/URL”. You could enter “#” or “javascript:;” as the URL, but one cannot expect non web developers to remember to do this. The user should not be required to take additional action just to NOT link a slide.
We wrote a quick fix for this. Open up the default.php template file for the FPSS layout you’re using. We used JJ-Oobs so we opened up /modules/mod_fpss/tmpl/JJ-Obs/default.php. Right after “foreach($slides as $slide):” insert the following
if($slide->link == 'URL'){
$slide->link = 'javascript:;';
}
We used a “javascript:;” URL rather than “#” because this way if you slideshow is far down the page, clicking it will not take you back to the top of the page … using “#” can conflict with named anchors but “javascript:;” does not.
redesigned bsicorp.net with Drupal
We recently redesigned bsicorp.net using Drupal 7.. in Chinese/Japanese/Korean. Oh, and English too.
Drupal 7 features a vastly improved administrative interface that is inspired by WordPress and secondarily by Joomla’s modal / lightbox windows. Paired with Drupal’s very robust content management features, this is a potent combination. Administration in Drupal is much less daunting now than it was in version 6.
Designing a multilingual site using Drupal 7 is also easier now. There’s a handy Translate tab, and language management and configuration is pretty straightforward, yet offers sophisticated options at the same time. A very good balance in my opinion.
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