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Meet Erik Webb, the southern gentleman helping Drupal projects succeed

Posted on Fri, Jan 18, 2013 12:24 by Jeffrey A. "jam...

Erik Webb – aka "Southern Gentleman" within his team – Senior Technical Consultant with Acquia's Professional Services group helps some of the "biggest Drupal users" in his job. In any given week, he might be doing anything from training people brand new to Drupal, to performance tuning and everything in between to make projects succeed. "I helped a Fortune 100 company move their entire web presence to Drupal." At this scale, Erik's job is about how to take Drupal to that next level and making it something that works for millions of people," day in and day out. "The Drupal community is really about trying to make an experience and make something that people want to come back to."

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Importing WordPress blogs into Drupal

Posted on Mon, Jun 04, 2012 by Mike Ryan
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At Acquia's Migration practice, we import all kinds of content into Drupal. In the course of some recent projects involving imports from WordPress blogs we have put the finishing touches on the WordPress Migrate module, and released it to the community.

File import improvements for Migrate 2.4

Posted on Tue, May 15, 2012 by Mike Ryan
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The Migrate module is the leading tool for migrating data from an external application into Drupal. Migrate has been used to bring many world class sites onto Drupal, including The Economist, Martha Stewart and thousands more. The main theme of the upcoming Migrate 2.4 release is improved file handling on Drupal 7.

Making the move from TYPO3 to Drupal

There is a lot momentum behind Drupal globally owing the large developer community behind it. Access to boutique Drupal agencies and developers offering support and development is easier. As a result, quality of developers is better, and support becomes more affordable for clients, thus reducing their TCO.

Migrating to Drupal

This paper examines scenarios for migrating from other content-management systems (CMSes) such as Vignette, Jive, FatWire, ColdFusion, and Joomla. It evaluates reasons for migration, describes migration methods and tools, and suggests best practices.

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