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ReadyTalk Goes to Drupalcon

Until Drupalcon Denver (the annual Drupal convention), I still felt relatively new to Drupal (read: n00b).  Drupalcon featured sessions ranging from design, UI and layout to system administration and performance and scalability.  Many of the top Drupal contributors were in attendance, including module developers, core developers, and even the founder himself, Dries Buytaert.  This offered a great opportunity to learn more about the CMS we’ve been operating our website on for roughly a year now. S... Read More » » read more

Teleworking: Internet Nightmares

This post is part of ReadyTalk's ongoing series on teleworking. My telework day started without Internet. The cable technician had come to troubleshoot the connection, and when he saw the downed line, his shoulders slumped. “I’ll have to run a new drop to your house. It will probably take me between 2 and 3 hours.” I made a pot of coffee, and let my supervisor know my status and that I probably would not be available until later in the day. I had considered just biking in to the office, but I had... Read More » » read more

ReadyTalk's New Website to use Drupal 7

ReadyTalk will be implementing Drupal 7 for our new website, one of the most feature-rich and secure online content management systems available. Since ReadyTalk has been developing its new site on Drupal 6, we had to decide whether or not it would be worthwhile to move to the newest version. For anyone looking to move up, specifically if you are just beginning or are in mid-development, I’ll explore some of the considerations we made while making the jump. Most of the modules that ReadyTalk... Read More » » read more

Creating a New Website: Integrating a jQuery carousel in to Drupal

In ReadyTalk’s new website design, we’ll provide up-to-date, dynamic information to our customers in a number of ways. One of those will be a carousel on the front page of the website. We want to load data asynchronously on to the front page to reduce loading times and we want it to load from Drupal nodes for easy maintenance. We originally went to find a Drupal carousel plugin, but none existed that met our needs. We decided to use jQuery Tabs since Drupal comes with jQuery installed. It was... Read More » » read more

Creating a New Website: A perfect balance of usability, information and culture

In my second post about ReadyTalk’s new website, I’m going to look at how the redesign will affect our customers, and what we’re doing to improve the ReadyTalk experience, and what you can expect from our website blog posts. If you haven’t heard, we’ll be working hard in the coming months to move to a new website that should offer some great features to our visitors and make life easier for our marketing team. Why are we making the move? In my previous post, I explored our reasoning for moving... Read More » » read more

ReadyTalk Drupal

ReadyTalk first started looking at our ongoing web redesign about a year ago as a way to increase the organization of, and access to, an increasing number of resources provided to our customers. At first we were looking at minor updates and a visual refresh, but as more requests for features and content changes came from across the company, it became apparent that we would need a major overhaul. We decided that a Content Management System (CMS) would be ideal and allow for quick content creation...Read More » » read more