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The Drupal way

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At Polycot Associates, we've had several clients now whose existing Drupal websites were not built to leverage Drupal's structure or its strengths. In these cases, the original developers...

Website creation and The Big Picture

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Most people might think of website design and development to focus on how the website appears and how the content is arranged. However web projects are generally complex - even small projects can...

What you need to know about SEO

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Polycot Associates builds websites that are optimized for search, but what does that really mean? And how important is it?  Let's start with that second question first.  Search engines...

CMS Primer

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CMS stands for content management system which is just a fancy way for saying a web site that normal people can change without the need for web experts.  A content management system will look...

Why we love Drupal

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Drupal is the premiere open source Content Management System (CMS) available today. Drupal features an amazing collection of features allowing...

Fixed bids

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I just posted this at Google+, and it's worth echoing here: Fixed bid web development makes no sense. It makes adversaries of the developer and client. The client always want more than they realize...

DrupalCamp Austin 2011, Day 2

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View the story "DrupalCamp Austin 2011, Day 2" on Storify]

DrupalCamp Austin, Day 1

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Social vs. Community

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Since the Internet first appeared, we've been using it socially, through conversation or through the assertion of relationships ("friending"). There's also "following," which may or may not suggest...

Clay Shirky Interview from Worldchanging

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Originally published at Worldchanging.com, March 31, 2008. Clay Shirky is an influential writer, consultant, and teacher focused on the Internet as a social platform. He's one of the smartest...