Google Insights for Search is a highly useful interface that Google provides to research keyword use over time in the Google search engine. Because Google handles the majority of online searches, the information they have to offer is incredibly valuable. Thankfully, they also provide this information for free. You can use Google Insights to quickly [...]

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If you perform a search in Google that includes a geographic location (and even sometimes if you don’t include a location) Google will display local business results for your search keywords. For example, a Google search of “books boston ma” returns the list of businesses below, featured prominently at the top of the search results.

Whether [...]

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The DrupalCon Paris session schedule was finalized over the weekend, and we are very excited to be presenting two sessions at the upcoming Drupal conference.

The first session, “Staging Drupal: Managing Your Project in Multiple Environments“, will be presented by Chris and Michelle. This session is in the “Code it, test it, deploy it” track. [...]

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Like many hopeful DrupalCon attendees, we recently found ourselves in the position of needing an extra ticket to the sold-out DrupalCon Paris next month. Sessions were just finalized over the weekend, and to some extent, our traveling plans were contingent upon which and how many of our team’s proposed sessions were accepted by the community [...]

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From our press release:

August 13, 2009 — CommonPlaces e-Solutions, a Web development firm located in Hampstead, New Hampshire, has been receiving national recognition for their work on the Web. Most recently, they appeared at number 446 in Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 500 list, an annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. The [...]

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The CommonPlaces team is excited to announce that we have been selected as a 2009 Leading Provider of Web Design in the Eastern US, as selected by Goldline Research, and featured in the August 24th issue of Forbes Magazine, which hit newsstands this week.

From our press release:

August 11, 2009 — CommonPlaces e-Solutions, LLC, a leading [...]

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Last week, CommonPlaces was recognized with an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Interactive Media Council for our work on Twolia.com. You can see the award here. Twolia was recognized in the Music Category of the Interactive Media Awards.

Twolia was recognized with this award for excellence in the following categories: design, usability, innovation in technical features, [...]

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10. “Drupal’s API allows you to easily create and customize functionality.” -Michelle

9. “For a designer, Drupal is like a functional blank canvas. The possibilities are endless and achieveable.” -D

8. “I love that Drupal has now gone mainstream and picked up the support of such companies as Google, Adobe, Intuit, Disney, Sony, Warner Brothers and AOL. [...]

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