Acquia

Do you hate it when you go to a site and the loading of the page takes forever? Most of the time that is spent waiting isn't really for the page to load, it’s for the various assets like images, css and javascript to be transferred from the server. Using simple tools provided in most browsers (or through an add-on/plugin) you can determine just how much those assets are slowing you down.

As a first step you'll need to locate the network panel within the developer tools for your browser:

Alaska Dispatch launched its new website today using Drupal and Open Publish. The online news site, founded by journalists and majority-owned by former U.S. News and World Report CFO Alice Rogoff, received a complete redesign and migration from Joomla. Mediacurrent joined the Alaska Dispatch team to assist with the final phases of the project.

Drupal Commons (DC) is a Drupal distribution billed as “social business software.” That means that Acquia is distributing Drupal bundled with some other modules preconfigured to work as a company’s interactive user-facing website. The most recent DC update 1.0 was released on August 5th.

 There was a new white paper titled "TCO for Open Source Social Publishing: Going Beyond Social Business Software" just released from our partner, Acquia, that deserves spotlight recognition. The document is a must-read for anyone on the front-lines of selling Drupal services.

There was some little reported financial news that came out of Wall Street last month that did not make much traction in the Drupalsphere, but it should – particularly to our partner Acquia and those of us in the open source world. The news was that the darling of commercial open-source business models, Red-Hat, reported that business is good, very good, despite the global economic recession.

We recently launched a new website for In-Fisherman, a division of publishing powerhouse InterMedia Outdoors (IMO). This is a really robust, feature-filled Drupal site that we are profoundly excited about. In a nutshell, IMO is recognized as one of the strongest brands in the outdoor sportsman industry.

In the two years or so since Mediacurrent started a web agency predicated around Drupal we have fought a recurring battle. We did not feel like our challenge was exclusive to just us in the Drupalworld.