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May 31 2011

May 2011: 7 Step Strategy to Get Top Rankings in Google

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Here is an excellent strategy to improve your ranking in Google, Yahoo and Bing, the top 3 search engines. I recently wrote this article while writing a proposal for a prospect. They asked Seascape Web Design to help them improve their search engine rankings and to increase traffic to their Drupal website.

What's your online strategy? Contact Katy for your own custom strategy to rock your Google ranking.

1. Preliminary report to determine where you rank for specific keywords is included in this proposal. We perform tests to determine how many sites link back to you. These are called backlinks or link popularity. We also test how many of your website pages are indexed by the top 3 search engines, Google, Yahoo, Bing.

May 30 2011

Next Surrey Drupal Meetup: June 9, 2011: Project Management Workflow with Open Atrium

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Join us on June 9 for Surrey Drupal Meetup where Steve Krueger is presenting on Organize Your Life with Open Atrium. http://ow.ly/56dBU Learn how to organize your client projects and streamline communication between clients and all team members.
May 30 2011

Thank you to Shaun Dychko for presenting at Surrey Drupal Meetup

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A big thank you to Shaun Dychko of Checkmarkmedia.com. He gave an excellent presentation at our Surrey Drupal meetup on May 12th, 2011. He demonstrated how he built a membership website using Drupal and Ubercart. Here's the site: www.giancolianswers.com

If you missed his presentation, you can see a more in-depth version on June 23, 2011 at the Vancouver Drupal Meetup: Building Membership Sites with Ubercart http://ow.ly/56bCM

May 28 2011

April 2011: Why Choose Drupal? Here's 7 Reasons Why

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We interviewed some of our clients and colleagues and asked them to explain in simple terms why they choose Drupal to build their company website. Here's what they had to say:

1. Drupal enables you to manage your own website content. Instead of having to hire a web designer to manually edit the HTML for each page and menu item, you can easily add new pages and edit all current content. This helps you save time and money by managing your website content yourself.
 
2. Drupal separates the site graphics design from the site structure. The site design is called a theme and can easily be changed to another theme by configuring some settings. This makes it cost effective when it comes to redesigning your website look and feel. Instead of having to re-code the entire site with HTML or PHP and CSS, you can change to a new theme without modifying the underlying site structure or code.
May 25 2011

Update your Drupal core to fix security issue in error messages

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Drupal 6.22 was released today! This minor release includes security fixes and bug fixes to make your Drupal site more secure and reliable.
May 20 2011

How to Build Your Conference Website with Drupal

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Using COD - the Conference Organizing Distribution for Drupal
 
What is a Drupal distribution?
A Drupal distribution is fully packaged Drupal including modules, themes, configuration and views
- a group of modules and sample content to get you started with quickly building your conference website. Other distributions include Acquia, Open Atrium, Drupal Commons
- a distribution quick-starts your site development so you can focus on what makes your event special
May 17 2011

New Website Launched for NfldSocietyBC.com

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New website for NfldSocietybc.com. Upgraded from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6. More details to follow.
May 14 2011

Welcome to the Surrey Drupal Meetup

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Hello! My name is Katy. I love helping people to learn how to use Drupal to promote their business online. I own and operate a small web development company called SeascapeWebDesign.com. We do graphics design and Drupal web development. If you need a dynamic way to connect with your new clients, we will be happy to explain how Drupal can work for you.
May 12 2011

Surrey Drupal Meetup: Drupal Showcase May 12, 2011

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I'm looking forward to our meetup tonight. Shaun Dychko of http://www.giancolianswers.com/ will demonstrate how he set up his membership site with subscriptions.  Katy will be demonstrating a Property Rentals website.

May 6 2011

How to build a Shopping Cart with Drupal’s Ubercart

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Ubercart is a an excellent shopping cart that fully integrates with your Drupal website. If you want to sell products online, set up membership subscriptions or collect online payments, then Ubercart is a good solution for you.
Current Features:
  • Configurable product catalog includes catalog pages and a block to display product categories
  • Flexible product creation system It’s easy to add new products and to specify attributes such as color, and size.
  • Single page checkout. All checkout information gathered on a single screen composed of configurable checkout panes.