Drupal Boise

Drupal Boise is a collection of blog entries, web pages, and portfolio pieces that are related to the Drupal platform in Boise, Idaho. We're happy to share with those who may benefit from straight-forward, honest, experienced, and innovative perspective.

Nerdy Dragon is a Boise company that promotes Drupal, and develops many sites using it. We learn more each day, and share what we know with others. Primarily, we help businesses better interact with their prospects and customers on the web. Drupal is a great platform to help facilitate this goal.

Please enjoy, feel free to leave comments, and even contact us.

Epic, commerce configuration extraordinaire - showcasing the power of Drupal Commerce

Submitted by jason on Tue, 2012-01-24 09:03

Some e-commerce challenges are more involved than others. Anyone can plug some products into a pre-built shopping cart, although tailoring a cart to your needs is a much more involved proposition.

Shipping, product attributes, configuration rules, constraints, inventory..the list goes on and on.

While working on solving an intricate ordering challenge for a specific industry, we've come across an excellent write-up involving drupal commerce: http://drupal.org/node/1338172

Handy Drupal Module - admin role

Submitted by jason on Mon, 2011-06-06 14:08

Drupal is an outstanding content management system, and it's beauty is it's flexibility.

A pure drupal installation downloaded from www.drupal.org is minimalistic, and has certain nuances that aren't ideal. To account for that, Drupal has a beautiful module system/api.

One handy module, is admin role: http://drupal.org/project/adminrole

What does admin role do? Well, it makes it easy to create use the content construction kit and simplify the task of administering permissions to the new cck fields you add.

#devidaho Development meets Business with Opportunity keeping score

Submitted by jason on Wed, 2011-04-20 21:59

Develop Idaho was a great event! There's a lot of excitement around entrepreneurship, technology, relationships, and doing business in Idaho. The Idaho Technology Council put on a great event today, connecting talent with opportunity, and trying-to's to the have-done's.

Engineering with business minds, marketing with development, type a's and type b's, x's and o's. Ecosystems are about connecting people, and events like Develop Idaho help to do exactly that.

It was an excellent venue to identify, engage, and promote Idaho business and entrepreneurship.

Here's our A List:

Boise Web Design - Dynamic Random Content

Submitted by jason on Tue, 2011-04-19 12:11

The most subtle web design change can mean the difference between a bounce and a conversion.

When designing websites, we look at the forest and the trees. What is the simple, clear message that will influence the visitor? What supplementary techniques can we use to further engage and entice?

One thing we like to do, is display a single element randomly from a set. For example, the tagline on our website, which appears below our logo, is a random selection from a set of taglines.

We've input:
Web Design, Development & SEO
Innovation via Software and Web Infrastructure

Drupal provides a variety of ways to solve common web challenges

Submitted by jason on Mon, 2011-04-11 22:48

Web designers, developers, copywriters, editors, small business owners, entrepreneurs, students, and professionals who are responsible for developing, organizing, and publishing content on the web love drupal.

A lot of people do, because it's powerful, available for free, has over 7000 modules available to enhance and customize it to most of the work required for an enormous number of web ventures.

It's not a system that handles everything for you.

It's a system that provides you and your web engineers a powerful and flexible toolkit to build applications from.

Guess who else is using Drupal?

Submitted by jason on Tue, 2011-04-05 11:15

You are! Sort of.

There's a lot to like about Drupal. It's simple, for simple sites and flexible enough to build the most powerful sites. It's easy for designers to work with, it's friendly to developers who want to customize it. It's good for building sites, good for getting sites found, and great for managing and using websites.

Drupal is a social platform. A publishing system. A content management system. A framework.

There's many well-known websites that are built on Drupal, with a great list available here: http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites

I Run for Maison - A Good Cause Web Development Project

Submitted by jason on Sun, 2011-03-20 15:46

In some instances, the best motivator for creating a website is a good cause. This is the case with www.irunformaison.com.

Maison Ortiz tragically passed during a snowboarding accident at age 15. He was a great young man, and came from such a great family. We're proud to help build a website and registration system for a fundraiser in Maison's honor.

Anyone who'll be in reno on March 27th should attend: www.irunformaison.com/

Here's some links with good additional info on Maison:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maison-Ortiz/177172648984829

Drupal Boise - what's the deal about Drupal?

We love drupal.

It's a great platform for developers, designers, users, administrators, and business. It's flexible, powerful, has great features is robust, and cost effective.

Fortune 500's use it, love it, and it's the most successful open source CMS platform available today.

Drupal Boise - The most powerful content management platform for designers and developers is Drupal.

Submitted by jason on Tue, 2010-09-14 16:02

Content Management Systems (CMS) come in many varieties. There's the PHP/MySQL kind, the Perl, Java, and other kinds, the hosted, the custom home grown, and there's Drupal. Web development requires flexibility and powerful systems, this is where Drupal delivers.

Why Choose Drupal? Boise Idaho company Nerdy Dragon answers.

Submitted by jason on Sun, 2010-08-08 16:44

Choosing a platform for your website is an important task, if you plain on maintaing the site, generating a good amount of content, measuring, analyzing, and continuously improving your conversion rate and traffic volume.

Like most of the fortune 500 and many of the best companies and organizations in the world, we've chosen Drupal. Like use, they've chosen the Drupal platform for various reasons.

These are the most common:
- Community
- Openness
- Ease of Use
- Available Modules

Drupal in Boise, Idaho and across the country

Drupal Development Boise Idaho Style

Boise Idaho is in luck, as it's base of Drupal developers is growing.

Nerdy Dragon utilizes Drupal and it's impressive feature set to deliver solutions to businesses.