Business
How to make your website a conversion machine with A/B testing
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 by Katelyn Fogarty RSS
Test, test, test, everyone has an opinion of what will work best when it comes to websites but you can’t argue with data. We know marketers love data! (cute marketing pick up line, “I love you, like a marketer loves data!” ) More...
Team building: How to spot a budding Drupalist
Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 by Heather James RSS
As a training manager, my job is to help Acquia’s clients develop the skills on their teams through training. I spend time listening to the team leads and matching their requirements to our courses, or our partner's online training services. Over the next couple of months in our training newsletter, I'll be writing advice on how to build and skill up your Drupal team. More...
Drupal Performance Profiling With Tracelytics
Posted on Monday, February 11, 2013 by Acquia Inc. RSS
Written by: TraceView
At AppNeta, we’re always concerned with the performance of Drupal applications. Multiple times a day, we talk to our customers about how they can use TraceView to improve the performance of their Drupal applications. So we started thinking, how can we help Acquia customers improve the performance of their Drupal applications? More...
5 Surprisingly Great Examples of Responsive Websites
Posted on Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Tom Wentworth RSS
Ethan Marcotte wrote the book (literally) on responsive design in 2010. Ethan wrote that:
The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first, we must “accept the ebb and flow of things”. More...
4 Steps to Optimize Your Drupal Site, Increase Traffic
Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 by Katelyn Fogarty RSS
I recently used acquia.com to demonstrate how to increase site traffic on a Drupal website by improving the online marketing. This conversation made me think that I could share some of the key things I do on acquia.com with other Drupal site managers. For starters, SEO, or search engine optimization, is a huge focus for me and there are some great tools in Drupal to help with this.
Step1:
Please start by enabling clean URLs within your system settings. It’s easy. Just a check box. More...
5 Content Management Blogs You Should be Reading
Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 by Tom Wentworth RSS
1) Gadgetopia. This blog run by Deane Barker is one of my favorites. Deane often writes about the more complex and subtle topics surrounding content management, and he does it from the perspective of having implemented hundreds of sites over the years. More...
Open Source, Community, and Freedom
Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by Tom Wentworth RSS
I’ve been with Acquia for a few weeks and have greatly enjoying learning about Drupal and what makes an open source project succeed – the community. It’s such a different approach to product development than I’m used to, having spent most of my career working for commercial CMS companies. I’ve already seen the energy, commitment and passion of the Drupal community. More...
Fresh start to the new year: Add Drupal to your toolbox
Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by Heather James RSS
As the new year starts, I'm making ALL kinds of resolutions. Is learning Drupal on your list of things to do? Or maybe you want to finally switch over that site to Drupal? Hopefully our active training events calendar has courses and dates and locations to suit your needs.
Last year, our partners taught Drupal to nearly 3000 people in public free and paid training events, and that doesn't count any private training events. Wow! Well done team! More...
4 New Year's Resolutions for your 2013 Digital Strategy
Posted on Friday, January 4, 2013 by Tom Wentworth RSS
'Tis the time of year when we make resolutions to eat better, exercise more, watch less TV, and give up our other vices for the new year. Here are four great New Year's Resolutions to make in 2013 to improve your digital marketing strategy.
1) Think Mobile First.
It is time to stop treating mobile as something different. You need to think about mobile as the primary way your customers will interact with your company over digital channels. It's all about thinking Mobile First. More...
Open Source & The Innovators Solution
Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2012 by Tom Wentworth RSS
I've spent most of my career working for commercial web content management companies. But over the past few years, something became very clear to me - commercial CMS products are broken. Vendors are spending more time building features to compete with each other than they are trying to solve real-world customer problems. More...
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