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Why Drupal rocks!

Whether you are a small business or a large corporation, a well constructed and attractive website acts like an extra employee for your company, except, it works 24/7 to communicate your message on the grandest of marketing platforms - the World Wide Web.

Welcome to Scott Jackson!

This week there's a different spin on the regular blog article. This week we're welcoming yet another team member into the Web Industries family - Scott Jackson!

Scott is entrepreneurial at heart, and has joined Web Industries to help market and develop our various products, along with Web Industries itself, of course! Not only that, but he brings a wealth of Search Engine Marketing and online strategy knowledge, so he's another string to the bow.

Iit's great to have him onboard with Web Industries - Scott, welcome.

A week in the world of Drupal - Mailhandler

Each week we will be showcasing new things we've been doing with the Drupal web system. Here is one more of many geeky, tricky, different things being performed down at the Web Industries office.


Many blogs (the larger commercial ones like Mashable) have multiple people posting up articles. As you'd know from writing your own blog, it takes quite a bit for a single person to pump out 20-30 articles a day - let alone 1 a week!

A week in the world of Drupal - Drupal for Facebook

Each week we will be showcasing new things we've been doing with the Drupal web system. Here is one more of many geeky, tricky, different things being performed down at the Web Industries office.


We've been in the social media age for a few years now. Everyone seems to need their website talking with the various social media platforms out there - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

A week in the world of Drupal - Organic Groups

Each week we will be showcasing new things we've been doing with the Drupal web system. Here is one more of many geeky, tricky, different things being performed down at the Web Industries office.


How can we deal with internal business groups easily and separate management-type conversations/resources with other staff? These questions were raised in our office and a very clear answer shone out - Organic Groups.

A week in the world of Drupal - CCK Node Reference URL Widget

Each week we will be showcasing new things we've been doing with the Drupal web system. Here is one more of many geeky, tricky, different things being performed down at the Web Industries office.


One thing many Drupal people overlook is how CCK can extend out a Drupal site immeasurably. Creating your own Content Types is one of the main features Drupal provides you with when expanding your CMS - we'll write a separate article about this later on.

A week in the world of Drupal - Features

Each week we will be showcasing new things we've been doing with the Drupal web system. Here is one more of many geeky, tricky, different things being performed down at the Web Industries office.


Well this week we've been having a good play with the new module-building sub system Features.

A week in the world of Drupal - Flags and the almighty Rules engine

Each week we will be showcasing new things we've been doing with the Drupal web system. Here is one more of many geeky, tricky, different things being performed down at the Web Industries office.

A week in the world of Drupal - the Nivo Slider

Each week we will be showcasing new things we've been doing with the Drupal web system. Here marks the first of many geeky, tricky, different things being performed down at the Web Industries office.

Seriously missing the boat

There’s been something bothering me for a little while now, and if you are a Kiwi SME then it’s really important that it bothers you too. The reason it bothers me is that I believe it is really important New Zealand business doesn’t lag behind the developed world in terms of internet technology uptake.