web design

It is not totally surprising to me that the Web industry is growing as fast as it is with mobile/tablet platforms taking off like rocket cars on salt flats. I guess all of the above go hand-in-hand and this also means they will continue along this path for the foreseeable future… in my own humble opinion.

As a premier Corporately Based Drupal Web Development firm in San Diego, SGC has established a reputation as the preferred partner for companies seeking new websites built on a CMS or framework. SGC is prepared to handle Drupal-based web development services of any complexity or size for clients in San Diego and worldwide. Being the onshore hand of SGC allows us to communicate with clients and manage their projects while still providing a significant cost savings for customers with our offshore team in Argentina (Santex America). Since both teams work under the same ownership and CMMI management model, we provide the best of both worlds.

For over 11 years now, we have provided a strong team of highly skilled web developers and designers. Our Internet services and solutions have been used to complete hundreds of projects for our internal and outsourced clients in different categories, including Drupal and other popular content management systems and frameworks. SGC's web developers have built a large knowledgebase on our Wiki that enables us to deliver and develop your solution to the Web within budget.

We are proud to announce that we recently took on the building of a new version of the http://www.OceanoPalace.com website in Drupal 6. The previous site was antiquated and offered limited control to the site owner when it came to updates and management. The new content management system, built on the Drupal 6 framework, provided a solution to every one of the client's requests.

Other sites that we have recently developed using Drupal include the innovative food and dish review site http://www.Dishizzle.com, the information-sharing network http://www.IdeaEncore.com and a Bar and Drink Mix site for a popular International Vodka brand.

We are proud to brand ourselves as an active Drupal Web Development firm in San Diego and are looking forward to continued success with many other clients using this framework. With a constantly evolving set of skills, the future looks bright and we are always prepared to embrace new ideas we discover along the way.

Over the last two years we have become more and more immersed into the Drupal Open Source CMS and Framework. Almost daily we find new tools, modules, and Web sites that support our teams in San Diego, CA and Cordoba, Argentina in creating more dynamic and functional products for our clients. Today I want to share some of these with you.

Great Blog from Lullabot
MySQL Database Import and Migration Tool for Drupal

We are proud to announce that the new version of the www.OceanoPalace.com website is live in Drupal 6 and built right here in San Diego. The previous site was antiquated and offered limited control to the site administrator's when it came to updates. The new site has a great CMS built in Drupal and allows for a wide variety of page and content management.

Drupal is our preferred free, open source, third-party CMS & Framework and it is our first choice when building sites for our clients that require its abilities and admin controls.
Official site: http://www.drupal.org
Advantages: templates control,system architecture, API, taxonomy, community.
Disadvantages: difficulty of working without preparation.

If you wish to completely control the appearance and the functionality of your Website or Web application (the level of control is determined by your needs), and do this effectively, the Drupal API will work extremely well for you and be very flexible as a template system solution.

In general, Drupal is simply a tool to construct your Website and not actually the site itself. The Drupal core contains only the required functionality to get your site working at a basic level. To do more custom and contributed modules, the modules need to be integrated to add your desired functionality. A basic Drupal install has many modules included however, such as content, profile, taxonomy, contact, blog, forum, search and so on. Some beginners may choose another CMS because it may take a lot of time to find the necessary module for a beginner and Drupal is really a development tool, not a do-it-yourself-kit!

You may think that Drupal was designed for programmers. But this doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to make an individual and attractive site if you are a web designer. If you don’t know PHP, JavaScript and MySQL you could still install Drupal and work with it. It is most likely not necessary to write your own modules if you are building a brochure Website with no custom abilities/functionality. It will be enough to go to the site and download them as needed.

Working with the Drupal API, CMS, and Framework is like a breath of fresh air for the programmer as compared to other options out there like Joomla, for example. Simple and well written code, powerful API, excellent documentation — what else do we need? The structure of the core assumes easy re-definition of the majority of core functions and modules (almost all which are responsible for output) with the help of «hooks». To write your own modules is very simple with the use of these core «hooks». Add just a few of special functions in the «filename.module» file you create — and your module is ready.

It is possible to apply Drupal to almost any site type: from simple static sites (the system of pseudonyms allows to set any URL for pages), to complicated community-portals. There will be almost no restrictions in site design – it all depends only on the desire and experience of the developer.

Drupal has a built-in system of internal caching which provides stable work even at overloads (slashdot and digg-effects). You can automatically turn off the part of functionality at flow of visitors. For some great examples, visit http://www.drupal.org and http://www.theonion.com.