11 Things We Love About Drupal 7

Since its release in January  of this year, we have used Drupal 7 for all of our new Drupal-based development projects.  As a firm, we had thousands and thousands of hours of experience in Drupal 6.  There are significant differences between Drupal 6 and 7, so working with the new platform has been a bit of an adjustment for us. ...

Buying a Website. The Seven Costly Questions That Are Often Overlooked.

The proposals are in.  They include some great designs; features that meet requirements; and maybe even some novel ideas.  Budgets get compared, references checked, and a selection is made.  Yet all is not well.  Several months down the road, after the new site’s public launch, problems arise that weren’t contemplated during the proposal process....

Lauer, Zeigler discuss building an online movement with The Pickens Plan

Watch the introductions for The Pickens Plan’s Heather Lauer and The Bivings Group’s Todd Zeigler during their panel discussion at the Personal Democracy Forum conference this week....

The perfect is the enemy of the good

Entrepeneur Mark Goldenson wrote a great article in Venturebeat last week on the lessons he learned working on his failed startup, PlayCafe.  This passage resonated with me:

3. Know when to value speed vs. stability. Another reason PlayCafe’s complexity hurt us is that developing good content and technology simultaneously required too much time....

Some Resources from DrupalCon

I attended DrupalCon last week, and the various speakers pointed to a variety of Drupal resources that are of interest to Drupal users of all skills sets.  Following is a breakdown of the various resources speakers at the conference crecommended.

For the beginners who know very little if anything about Systems,...