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Support Contracts

Throughout the year we continue to support clients with seasonal needs. Support contracts are available if you need web programmers on call to deal with system issues as well.

This month, we've been busy helping MaineToday Media Inc. to prepare their custom high school sports software for the season. This work includes MySQL database backups and purging of outdated data. We are also assisting with translations from xml to DTI publishing formats. The various seasonal sports translate to lots of different boxscore and schedule formats for both print and web publishing.

Project Leader

With over 15 years in web development and communications, my company could be the right fit for your project needs, especially if you need direction. As a consultant, I will bring years of experience with keeping projects focused and on budget.

Often times clients will use in house experience because an individual knows a certain technology. Let me help you explore other options like comparing custom built solutions versus third party applications.

Social Networking sites with Drupal

Currently testing modules for a new social networking concept. We'll be working with Drupal modules like

  • http://drupal.org/project/advanced_profile
  • http://drupal.org/project/flag_friend
  • http://drupal.org/project/activity
  • Part of advanced Drupal development is learning to harness the modules that are in production now. This helps meet other project goals like keeping time lines reasonable and reducing custom programming costs for the customer.

    Celsius

    Had the pleasure of doing a bit of testing and research this week for www.celsiustechnologygroup.com
    Celsius software provides content management for
    www.theforecaster.net , http://www.sunjournal.com
    and other businesses nation-wide.

    MaineToday Media

    Working with MaineToday Media this week on a few feed related items as they migrate to Clickability CMS
    MTMedia owns three majore newspapers in Maine: www.pressherald.com, www.kjonline.com, and www.onlinesentinel.com

    Not so creepy really

    Just a quick plug for a simple, easy to setup, customizable and free site search engine (yes free). Thanks to the people at http://www.sphider.eu/ for an excellent piece of open source code. Look forward to seeing it on an upcoming monster music venture!

    Fall 2009

    "Thank you" to everyone for supporting NewEnglandBest.com and using our services over the last few months. Transitioning from my position as Senior Web Developer with Mainetoday.com has been a good experience overall and an excellent opportunity to reconnect with old friends and coworkers.

    Sheepscotscale.com goes Drupal

    http://www.sheepscotscale.com

    A long term client of ours, George Barrett let us upgrade his site to Drupal 6.9. This is a big improvement over the custom portal he's had for a few years. Check out lightbox 2 and the slick way it handles images.

    Network Security

    Now installing open source Network Security servers for your home or small business. Never buy another Norton subscription again!

    * Web Filter
    * Spam Blocker
    * Spyware Blocker
    * Protocol Control
    * Virus Blocker
    * Phish Blocker
    * Attack Blocker
    * Firewall
    * OpenVPN
    * Reports

    Why Drupal?

    source: drupal.org

    Friendly URLs - Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user and search engine friendly.

    Modules - The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality that extend Drupal core.detailed information

    PHP

    MYSQL

    DRUPAL