Drupal

Rotating Banners In Drupal presentation at Ft. Lauderdale Drupal Users Group

Our very own Lead Drupal Developer, Chris Parsons, recently presented to the Fort Lauderdale Drupal Users Group.

In May 2010 Chris spoke to the group about creating rotating banners in Drupal and the multiple ways to accomplish this commonly request feature.

Used to make slideshows, homepage billboards, portfolio displays and many other functions, rotating banners are a fantastic tool for use in your Content Management System. When built properly, they are very easy to use, maintain and can be updated frequently, to keep your content fresh, with very little effort.

Chris spent time discussing options between rotating banners in Drupal, such as views_slideshow and views_cycle.

Check out his slide deck below.

Read More

CiviCRM and Drupal Diary - Week 2

This is our multi-article series on integrating CiviCRM and Drupal.  Make sure you've read the prologue, introducing the topics to be covered.

Now that we had decided to utilize Drupal & CiviCRM for our project, our next steps were as follows:

  • Determine a schedule
  • Install a Drupal and CiviCRM development environment
  • Begin comping our theme

Some of these processes went much easier than others and it was surprising how things turned out.

Read More

CiviCRM and Drupal Diary - Week 1

This is our multi-article series on integrating CiviCRM and Drupal.  Make sure you've read the prologue, introducing the topics to be covered.

Our Choice to use Drupal along with CiviCRM was a difficult one to make at the onset of our project. In this section I would like to explain:

  • Project Conception
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Software Evaluation

Our client approached us with some very basic requirements. As long as we stayed within the requirements, we were free to choose whatever technology we felt would deliver the proper solution.

Project Conception

Our project was to be a membership website for a not for profit professional association. The site was to have two primary components with multiple sub sections:

Read More

Drupal Case Study - Technical Overview of Aquatic Systems

Aquatic Systems is one of the leading Lake and Wetland Management companies in the state of Florida. They restore and maintain private, commercial and public lakes, waterways, wetlands and preserves from overgrowth of algae and exotic species, poor water quality, and fish kills. Their former site was a 10-page static HTML site. Their goal was to not only update the look of their website, but to be able to add press releases, articles, and case studies in order to become the online resource for their industry.

Read More

CiviCRM and Drupal Diary - Prologue

civicrm+drupal_logoThis multi-part story is presented for those parties that are contemplating using CiviCRM with Drupal for an online project. The information provided will apply particularly well if you are looking to utilize CiviCRM for running an association or membership group.

Background

It all starts with an idea...

We were approached by a client to build a membership website for their constituents to utilize and assist in marketing the association, to attract new members, and ease the administrative burdens on the association staff. Our team has many years of experience with membership and association websites and this was the primary reason we were chosen for the project. After reviewing the requirements, we quickly realized that the systems we had used in past projects were not going to be adequate for this one without heavy customization and custom coding. After much deliberation, research, discussion and testing we decided that CiviCRM running on Drupal would be our best approach. What follows is the story of our process and our project.

Read More

Drupal's Future: CMS or Framework... or Both?

With the announcement of Drupal being used to power WhiteHouse.gov, Drupal has been thrust into the spotlight even more. Its merits of a content management system have already been heralded, but as Drupal matures, people are starting to understand its power even more, and use it for non-CMS uses, such as the recently featured site on Drupal.org, GoTwitr.com. This begs the questions: is Drupal turning into a framework? Is it one already? Should it be?

Drupal as a CMS

Drupal was born as a CMS, and it would be a sad day if it gave up on those roots. This isn't predicted to happen, at least anytime soon. In fact, there has been plenty of work on the user interface in Drupal 7, including extensive UI testing and bringing in UI designers from outside the community to revamp and simplify the administration and content editing experience in Drupal 7. And while there's still an amount of configuration needed to get Drupal running well and tuned to be fast, it's still an out of the box solution that has near-immediate usability as a CMS.

Read More

Drupal is the right choice!

drupal-logoWhen in need of Content Management System (CMS) for your website you can't go wrong with Drupal.  Several years ago our company was evaluating different options for  (CMS) software for our clients. As with any software selection in today's time there are generally 3 options to pursue:

Read More