Slightly overdue, here is the second half of my two-part series on Delivering Video Content on Your Website. Part 1, “How Do I Get Video On My Website?”, can be seen here.

After reading Part 1, “How Do I Get Video On My Website?”, you may have concluded that a content delivery network (CDN) is [...]

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Consider this a pseudo-WebMD page for diagnosing your broken Drupal Website.

The Symptoms

Is your Drupal Website “broke”?  Missing functionality?  Crashing?
Do you have a looming launch date that keeps you awake at night?
Is your business poised to lose more than revenue due to an ‘unlaunchable’ application?
Are your stakeholders demanding a plan to get it back on [...]

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If you’re looking for new and successful ways of engaging your audience online, you’ve likely considered adding video to your website. In many cases, video can be a great way to entertain, inform, or generally engage site visitors. But how do you get video on your website? Because of the size of video files, and [...]

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What’s the goal of your website? To sell a product? To gain registered users? To solicit donations? Regardless of your goal, a great way to succeed on the Web is to think of your website as your online salesperson. Whenever you are making a decision on design, site structure, content, or copy, keep this concept [...]

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There is a great case study available on Acquia.com that details the development decisions that were made for the family of Lifetime Network sites, all of which were built in Drupal. If you’re interested in issues of Drupal scalability, and how a Drupal site can be built to handle 50 million page views a month, [...]

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Let me begin by saying that Adobe Flash is very far from falling out of use. Conservative estimates say 95% of Web users have Adobe Flash Player installed. The number of websites that employ Flash is harder to estimate, but most would put the number between 25% and 50%. And as this website so succinctly [...]

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Almost daily we help people evaluate Open Source resources for use in their projects. We’ve found that there are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there that make reaching a decision harder than it should be.

To help even more people out there, CommonPlaces has developed a new, concise 9-page white paper titled “Using [...]

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Data security was in the news in a big way last week. First, major news outlets reported Thursday morning that Iraqi insurgents were using $30, off-the-shelf software to hack into the video feed created by U.S. spy planes flying over the country. Apparently the data these planes were capturing was being sent back to the [...]

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Corporations spend millions to ensure that their online networks and servers are secure. However, Web security at the application level is often ignored, or at least underrated. This is unfortunate, because today, most security breaches online occur through the application rather than the server. Last year, the Gartner Group reported that “75% of cyber-attacks and [...]

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After a request to share some of the resources and tools we use here at CommonPlaces to plan successful websites, I went to work on a second part to my “Planning a Successful Website” blog from two weeks ago. Without futher ado, here are a few tools you can try out for your next website.

Wireframing
As [...]

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