CommonPlaces is thrilled to announce that Michelle Lauer has been selected by the Drupal community to present “Views Examples: Using Arguments and Relationships” at DrupalCon San Francisco, which will be held from April 19-21. You can read our press release here.

In her session, Michelle will share a repeatable strategy for using arguments and relationships with [...]

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Are you planning to build multiple websites for your business? Before you do, read out free, 9-page white paper, “When to Use a Multi-Site Architecture,” to learn more about the significant savings that multi-site can deliver. If your goals require multiple websites, a multi-site solution could cut your development and maintenance costs in half.

Here’s [...]

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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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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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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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Exciting news in the Drupal world – Gartner, Inc., the leading research and advisory firm, recently identified the Drupal CMS as a “Visionary” in their yearly “Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace.” Here is an image of what that quadrant looks like:

Last year, Drupal appeared as a “Niche player,” but the continued commitment [...]

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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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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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