By Pem McNerney on March 27, 2010
Image via CrunchBase Data visualization meets Drupal: Equally exciting, some extremely powerful data-visualization tools now are available for anyone to create visualizations within a semi-controlled space: Data360, and IBM’ s Many Eyes are two of the best. We at the Jefferson Institute just released betas for a set of highly abstracted Drupal data-visualization modules — […]
Posted in CMS, Drupal | Tagged data visualization, Data360, Drupal
By Pem McNerney on March 24, 2010
CenterNetworks’ Allen Stern last year moved his blogs from Drupal to WordPress “because writing was frustrating in Drupal and is a pleasure in WordPress.”
Posted in CMS, Drupal, WordPress, Writing | Tagged Allen Stern, CMS, Drupal, InformationWeek, WordPress, Writing
By Pem McNerney on March 23, 2010
Last month, Middlebury launched it’s newly made over Web site. Take a look before you read further and see what you think.
Posted in Design, Drupal | Tagged Content, Design, Drupal, edu, Middlebury, Smashing Magazine, White Whale
By Pem McNerney on March 22, 2010
Profiles, photos, videos, and blogs will play a central role in a new site launched recently by the New York Institute of Technology, according to this report from 7th Space Interactive.The site was developed with the help of Expression Engine, a content management system that NYIT says will allow content developers to make regular updates. […]
Posted in Blogging, CMS, Facebook, Social Media | Tagged blogs, CMS, Content, edu, facebook, Social Media
By Pem McNerney on March 19, 2010
There are many reasons to like the content management system Drupal. It’s powerful, it’s popular, and it’s free. But Drupal 6, the current version, is hard to love. The interface can be confusing. The results, for the beginning user, can be ugly. Even Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s creator, says it can be hard to tell the […]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Acquia, Content, Dries Buytaert, Drupal, Drupal 7, Drupal Garden, Jeff Noyes, Lynne Capozzi
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