At the end of another busy fortnight, Web Spiders recently concluded working on two important web development projects – one for a famous UK-based salon marketing portal and another for a highly reputed international liquor manufacturer for their Swedish site.

For the Swedish site, Web Spiders used a range of technologies and platforms including ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server and Adobe Flex. The site was developed in the Swedish language to facilitate local usage.

One of the most interesting functionalities of the site was letting bar and restaurant owners to create unique cocktail menus online. The site used an easy-to-use interface which allowed users to create these menus in simple steps. What’s more, official company representatives can create customers and place orders on their behalf which were available in high resolution print-ready PDF’s which were automatically generated from the Admin section.

For the Salon portal, the technologies used were ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server and Adobe Flex. The site allowed salons in UK to customize marketing materials online and place orders. The easy to use interface allowed users to customize templates in simple steps and the site featured a highly attractive design. The high-res PDF generation functionality for orders which have been successfully placed was built in for this site too.

These projects mark a noteworthy addition to the long list of cutting-edge websites developed by Web Spiders for national and international clients.

Event2Mobile, developed and distributed by Web Spiders, is a great new platform for event managers and organizers to give access to events through mobile devices. The application has been making waves ever since it was launched a year back, thanks largely to its excellent compatibility across diverse mobile platforms such as Windows Mobile, Symbian, BlackBerry and of course, the iPhone.

Event2Mobile is being embraced by a growing number of reputed companies the world over. One of the recent names to be added to this list is that of Imago Techmedia (www.imago-group.com), the name behind some of the most innovative and successful IT events in the last decade.

Established in 2001, Imago Techmedia’s track record is one of constant innovation in the fields of business communications, IP, wireless and mobility. They have been a leading name in creating cutting-edge events, conferences and online forums which bring new technology solutions to the market in an accessible and timely way, generating real business benefit for our customers.

Another company to have adopted Event2Mobile recently is Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), headquartered in Amsterdam, employing more than 7,000 people in 24 countries and the world’s leading publisher of science and health information, and Six Degree Events (www.6degreesevents.co.uk), a premiere UK-based event management service provider for the business community across a wide array of sectors.

Web Spiders and Event2Mobile feel proud of these noteworthy associations and look forward to more such feathers to add to their caps in the future.

Day Two coverage of the ongoing DrupalCon, Copenhagen 2010.

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Day One coverage of the ongoing DrupalCon, Copenhagen 2010.

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You do not want your Drupal site’s users to get lost in a myriad of long forms, fieldsets, page redirects, and confusing tagging. You want to do everything you can to make navigating your site and completing frequent routine tasks as painless as possible for the end user. This will keep them calm and give them warm fuzzies to know that they can use your Drupal site with ease without having to pop a Valium just to endure the overwhelming experience of encountering your site.

When you have relaxed, confident and in-control users – you have happy customers which can translate into more traffic, more sales, more word-of-mouth about your website!

Now that sounds good doesn’t it?

Here are nine sure-fire modules to ensure users aren’t selecting the “nightmare” button when interacting with your Drupal site.

Over the years, the process of theme-ing Drupal sites has improved drastically. However, one issue that remains a constant pain point in the community is dealing with core and module CSS.

We think we all agree that it’s broken, but there are two completely opposite views on how to go about fixing this problem.

There are those that want to get rid of it altogether, and those that want to fix it at the source. What’s important is that we have a chance to fix things. We just need to get involved and share our ideas.

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