Add CommentSource23Wednesday, July 23, 2008By adminSo I just read about Ms. Byron’s award at this year’s OSCON in Portland, OR for “Best Community Supporter” (with Drupal, of course). Quite the feat for both Drupal AND a drupalchix . . . Congrats, Angie! Drupalchix
Read MoreAdd CommentShareSource Articles24Tuesday, June 24, 2008By adminGoogle recently added a new feature to Google Trends: You can now compare websites to see how many daily unique visitors they’re getting. If there’s anyone who’s qualified to estimate traffic, it’s Google. They handle half the world’s search requests, and for the Drupal community, that number is probably
Read MoreAdd CommentShareSource Articles26Thursday, June 26, 2008By adminInformation Week, the influential B2B technology magazine, just posted a new article called Getting Started with Drupal. Here’s a quote: “Drupal is a free, open-source content management system, and its flexibility and ease of use have long made it a favorite in the content management community.” Perhaps my favorite
Read MoreAdd CommentShareSource Articles29Sunday, June 29, 2008By adminIn presentations I usually point out that Drupal is three things: A content management system: The forms you fill out, the buttons you click, and the content you work with. The stuff you interact with every day while you manage your site.A content management framework: The low-level APIs that
Read MoreA3 Atlantis: An Exclusive New Theme For DrupalAdd CommentShareSource Articles30Monday, June 30, 2008By adminA3 Atlantis is my newest contribution to the Drupal community. Designed from the ground up to be fast, elegant, and search engine friendly, this theme features a stunning visual design, beautiful typography, and a standards-compliant code base. A3 Atlantis Drupal ThemeA3 Atlantis
Read MoreAdd CommentShareSource News2Wednesday, July 2, 2008By adminWe are excited to announce that three key modules, Views, CCK, and Organic Groups, have published release candidates today, ready for testing. If you are interested in speeding the transition to a full release, install and test the Release Candidates (RC). Many months of work have gone into extensive
Read MoreAdd CommentShareSource Articles3Thursday, July 3, 2008By adminA new bill, The Orphan Works Act of 2008, is currently making its way through congress, and it threatens to take away copyright protection from unregistered works. This includes virtually all open source software. Essentially, the bill (as I understand it — and I’m not a lawyer) will modify
Read MoreA3 Atlantis Photoshop File ReleasedAdd CommentSourceArticlesShare6Sunday, July 6, 2008By adminBy request, a multi-layer Photoshop file of the A3 Atlantis Drupal theme is now available. This will mainly be useful for those of you who wish to change the position of map to show South America, Africa, or Australia. You can download the zipped PSD here.
Read MoreAdd CommentSource Articles4Wednesday, June 4, 2008By adminI recently evaluated ExpressionEngine for viability as a CMS replacement for Drupal. ExpressionEngine (EE) is a commercial CMS tool built on PHP and mySQL by EllisLab. A client of ours was attracted to its clean interface, built-in features, and expandability. I was impressed by the well-designed UI and the
Read MoreAdd CommentShareSource Articles6Friday, June 6, 2008By adminThe next Ottawa Drupal Meetup is Wednesday, June 11th, at 5:30pm. The location is the same as last time, The James Street Pub, at 390 Bank St. Ottawa Drupal Meetup MapThe last meetup was lots of fun, we had about 20 people show up. If you’re planning to come,
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