In our many years of Web development experience, I think the greatest lesson we’ve learned is the value of planning a project thoroughly and completely. This means making sure all of the details are sorted out before development begins. In our experience, this approach avoids numerous issues, saves time in the long run, and results [...]

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The Drupal world was a-buzz this weekend with the news that WhiteHouse.gov was redesigned in Drupal, and launched Sunday. President Obama has frequently stated his support of open source platforms, and in fact, other White House affiliated sites, such as Recovery.gov, have already leveraged the Drupal platform. The content management functionality of Drupal perfectly supports [...]

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On November 5th, CommonPlaces will be presenting a webinar on Drupal multi-site technology titled, “Reduce the Cost of Each New Website With Drupal Multi-Site.” The webinar is being hosted by Acquia, and will be presented by our CEO Ben Bassi and Internet Engineer Chris Pliakas, along with Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing at Acquia. [...]

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A number of CommonPlaces team members are headed to Montreal this weekend for DrupalCamp Montreal 2009. 150 people have already registered for this gathering of Drupal designers and developers, being held at McGill University this weekend (October 17th and 18th).

We’re very excited to be presenting five sessions at the two-day event. Here’s a list of [...]

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On Tuesday, Yahoo!’s Senior Director of Search Cris Pierry stated unequivocally at a search marketing conference in New York that Yahoo! no longer supports the meta keywords tag. This announcement comes just weeks after search giant Google posted a blog stating that they also ignore the tag. Could Yahoo!’s announcement finally spell the end for [...]

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As a Content Management Systems (CMS), Drupal allows the client to collaboratively create and edit various kinds of content. Gone are the days of calling your webmaster to swap out an image or update your monthly news article. The Drupal CMS gives complete control of the content to the site owner. In [...]

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As I mentioned in my last post from Friday, the most common concern that I encountered during the Social Networking for Business workshop we led last month was the lack of free time small business owners had at their disposal. We had a long list of online marketing strategies these businesses could employ, but running [...]

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On the 17th of September, we presented a workshop at the Enterprise Center at Salem State College on using social networking for business. The workshop, “Using Social Networking to Drive Traffic,” was led by our CEO Ben Bassi, Director of Marketing Jesse Buss, and myself. We were delighted to attract an audience of about 100 [...]

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