Acquia

Another Acquia Engage is right around the corner! On October 26 and 27, Acquia hosts their annual event. The Engage 2021 conference will be fully virtual, just like last year, and free for all attendees. Register now (using MEDIACURRENT as your code) and join us!

Acquia Engage is coming soon (October 20 and 21) to a screen near you. There’s still time to register and join us! The Engage 2020 conference will be fully virtual and free for all attendees. 

A Mediacurrent, we think our work speaks for itself. But Acquia’s certification program helps us to truly validate our Drupal knowledge and skills.  

In this interview, meet Joseph Oh and Rob Powell. These two newly-minted Drupal 8 certified developers share their tips and experience to help you conquer the exam:

Web development can be complicated. When it comes to contributing to Drupal, either on one’s own time or as part of a job, one of the biggest problems beginners have is getting all of the tools working correctly. It can also be a source of frustration to people with plenty of experience too - maybe they would prefer to put time into writing witty blog posts, designing the perfect rounded corner, or throwing snowballs with their children, rather than dealing with server configuration haiku.

Another major sports league has launched a Drupal platform that will power each of its team sites.

Companies are seeing lower success rates on social media and diminishing conversion rates on the web - a trend that has put us all, especially content marketers, in the position to prove the ROI or face severe fiscal cuts. Unfortunately, reporting metrics like “increased impressions” and “better brand awareness” won’t be enough because companies are looking for hard before/after numbers.

As Drupal experts our team at Mediacurrent is very familiar with Acquia’s cloud based hosting solution "Acquia Cloud". In fact, Mediacurrent is an official Acquia Partner. Because of our partnership and because Acquia Cloud is an excellent solution, we end up working with a lot of clients who are utilizing Cloud already or helping clients move on to Acquia’s platform.

Today, Mediacurrent and Acquia are proud to announce that one of the highest profile websites in the world, Weather.com, based in Atlanta, will be joining the Drupal community!  To my knowledge, Weather.com will be the highest traffic Drupal site in existence. Over the last six months, Mediacurrent and Acquia have been shepherding Weather.com’s on-ramping of Drupal via a proof-of-concept and discovery engagement. 

Acquia has produced an excellent top 10 list of "Reasons to Choose the Drupal Open-Source Social Publishing System" which should be enough to convince anyone just how powerful the Drupal CMS can be to meet your needs.

The abbreviated list:

In this day and age, time is money—both for website developers and site visitors. Page load times can be the difference that impacts search engine rankings, ad revenue, and overall sales. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) will cut the load time of assets between 20-50%, especially for users outside of the United States which amounts to an improved customer experience.