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Posts tagged with: CMS

Updating your own site: an introduction to content management systems

June 15, 2008 Articles

“I want to update my website myself” is a commonly-heard plea from site owners who’ve realised that the job of keeping the content of their websites up to date is too important a job to be left to web designers. In this article I’m going to explain why you should consider managing your content yourself [...]

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Entertainment Film Distributors

June 4, 2008 Portfolio

A Drupal development project involving lots of media integration: flash, images and movies.
My role involved building the custom theme from artwork and HTML supplied by other team members; writing a couple of modules to integrate media files and another to provide a simple competition facility. I also heavily customised the advanced search facility to suit [...]

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Sustain-a-What?!?! Facebook Application

April 25, 2008 Portfolio

The Sustain-a-what?!?! application is a quiz intended to amuse while making the user think about the issues surrounding the hot topic of sustainability.
The quiz runs on the Drupal platform so the client can maintain its content for themselves. I wrote a custom module to manage the quiz questions and answers, as well as storing the [...]

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How to migrate a large site to Drupal

March 23, 2008 Technology Blog

I’ve worked on a few large site migration jobs now, so I thought I’d share some of my experiences and what I’ve learned along the way.
I recently moved my hobby site Odd Books to Drupal, so that’s the one I’ll use as the prime example.

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Wolf and Water

August 27, 2007 Portfolio

Wolf and Water Arts Company is a charity which does art work with various groups. The company wanted a new website to help them manage and present their extensive archives of material related to past and present projects. Their old site was hard to update and hence new content tended to be added belatedly or [...]

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Lynton & Barnstaple Railway

August 27, 2007 Portfolio

The brief for the web site of this popular North Devon tourist attraction was to create an attractive modern site with a clear organisational structure which would be maintainable by L&B staff.
Given the large amount of content with varying needs for its presentation and management Drupal was the obvious choice. I created a custom theme [...]

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Metro International

June 17, 2007 Portfolio

I was asked by unit9.com to help develop the backend administration for Metro International’s new website. This involved radical customisation of the Drupal content management system so Metro staff could easily maintain the content of this beautifully designed site with its many complex page structures. It doesn’t look like a Drupal site, does it?
“Working with [...]

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