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Newsletter Announcement

Posted on Wed, 2009-11-25 by Jeff Jerome

Dear Swipht Friends,
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We are writing to announce that in December, Swipht Technologies is pleased to bring you our first monthly E-Newsletter.

We’ve been building website and applications for awhile now and we think it’s time to share some of our knowledge and exciting discoveries with you. Early Christmas present? Absolutely! You can use our information to:

Newsletter

Portland Rock Gym Passes
Posted on Wed, 2009-11-25 by Jeff Jerome

Portland Rock Gym
I have some extra Portland Rock Gym one-day passes available for anyone who wants them. They expire at the end of the year, so come and get them! Leave a comment or send an email to jeff@swipht.com

Misc

City Of Portland CMS Audit
Posted on Wed, 2009-11-18 by Jeff Jerome

Portland Online

I gave a presentation to our wonderful city yesterday about their website: Portland Online. Some members were certainly appreciative of the recommendations we made.However, in this economy, it'll be tough to find the resources and budget to make many of the changes. We'll see what happens.

Consulting

City of Portland Banner Design Contest
Posted on Sat, 2009-11-14 by Jeff Jerome

The City of Portland's 19 banner designs are up for a vote: http://www.portlandonline.com/support/banners/vote/

Design

OSCON 2010 will be in Portland!
Posted on Sun, 2009-11-08 by Jeff Jerome

According to a Google Groups post by David Percy, Geospatial Data Manager at Portland State University, the manager of catering at the Oregon Convention Center has mentioned that OSCON will be back in town, July 19-23, 2010

Events

Pressflow
Posted on Fri, 2009-11-06 by Jeff Jerome

press flow

Pressflow is a derivative of Drupal core providing enhanced performance, scalability, and data integrity. Swipht is evaluating Pressflow to use on all of our Drupal installs.

Development, Drupal

Connect Facebook with Drupal
Posted on Fri, 2009-11-06 by Jeff Jerome

gigya

There is a new module to connect Social Networks with Drupal.

Gigya Socialize provides a single API that aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Twitter, and OpenID webmail providers including Google, Yahoo, and AOL. The Gigya module for Drupal is fully configurable, requiring little time to install.

Drupal, Social Networks

The White House Website Launches on Drupal
Posted on Mon, 2009-10-26 by Meghan James

whitehouse on Drupal

The Open Government Initiative took a big step in propounding the ideas of participation and collaboration and did so by adopting an open-source technology to run the administration's main public facing website, www.whitehouse.gov on Drupal.

Drupal

Multi-site or Multiple Drupal Sites
Posted on Tue, 2009-10-20 by Jeff Jerome

Drupal provides several different options when creating multi-site installations. Each presents its own set of benefits and drawbacks. Let's go through a few combinations we've explored for some of our clients:

Drupal

ADA Accessibility Recommendations
Posted on Fri, 2009-10-16 by Jeff Jerome

Complying with the ADA is important for every website to consider. Below are a few samples of the types of tasks that should be included as part of the project to make your site ADA compliant:

ADA