Drupal4nonprofit

24/09/2012

It certainly is Monsoon weather here, we’re hoping you didn’t get caught out in the rain today!

24/09/2012

Morning all!
Here’s a short interesting piece about The White House’s website ‘We the People' (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/), a Drupal-based site that allows the American public to directly contact the President of the United States on issues they care most about. The U.S. government will release the code behind this site to contribute to the Drupal community and act as a learning point for other government and open source sites.

Personal website of Dries Buytaert. Dries is the original creator and project lead of Drupal, co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, and working on Mollom.

21/09/2012

If you’re a non-profit organisation who is looking to build a new website or upgrade your current site with a reliable content management system (CMS) for an affordable price, then Drupal might be the answer you’re looking for. Drupal is a powerful open source CMS that has zero licensing fees. Drupal allows you to control the content of your site, connect with your clients, write blogs and articles and has 1000’s of online tools out of the box. Drupal is fast growing and has approximately 876,977 people in 228 countries using it. MonsoonConsulting are a Drupal development company in Dublin that specialise in developing Drupal websites and are a Drupal Association member. If you would like more information, please visit http://www.monsoonconsulting.com/tech/overview

21/09/2012

MonsoonConsulting,a Drupal development company, recently completed a new updated site for Educate Together. Educate Together is the patron body to Ireland’s 60 multi-denominational primary schools and was established over 34 years ago. It is an independent NGO that aims to educate all children regardless of religious, cultural or social upbringing. To see the site, please visit www.educatetogether.ie.

For more information on the project, please see out this case study. We’d love to know what you think, please comment below. If you are a non-profit organisation and would like to update your site, please contact www.monsoonconsulting.com

19/09/2012

MonsoonConsulting, a Drupal development company, recently completed a new fully responsive site for the Carmichael Centre Impact Network called KnowledgeNet. The Carmichael Centre is the first and largest shared services centre for the community and voluntary sector in Ireland. The new site maps to Mobile, Tablet and Laptop/Desktop. For more information on the project, please see out Case Study section. We’d love to know what you think, please comment below. If you are a non-profit organisation and would like to update your site, please contact www.monsoonconsulting.com

Carmichael KnowledgeNet Case Study

18/09/2012

Drupal 7 is the newest version of this great opensource Content Management System that powers some of the world’s most famous sites such as The White House, The Economist, and non-profit organisations such as Amnesty International and Trocaire. If you’re a non-profit company looking to lower costs and upgrade your site, contact Monsoon Consulting, who are a Drupal design company and have previous experience working with organisations such as Carmichael Centre and Heart Children Ireland.

18/09/2012

For information on the brand new edition of Drupal 7, check out Drupal.org. There are some great new features available with in-depth advice and installation guides. Try it for yourself and see the benefits.

Drupal core contains the essential building blocks providing you a flexible foundation to get started with Drupal. You’ll also need a web hosting provider.

18/09/2012

Hi All, Drupal.org will have down time today at 17.00. If you would like further information about this, please check the Drupal.org site.

We will be taking drupal.org down for 30 minutes Tuesday, September 18, 17:00 PDT (Sept 19 0000 UTC). This outage is to update site code and re-hash user passwords, increasing their security. When the site returns, users may find that they cannot login. We will be processing the re-hashing increment...

07/08/2012

Here’s a quick guide on the benefits of Drupal as a Content Management system. We’d love to hear your feedback about Drupal, please let us know what you think!

Benefits of Drupal as a Content Management System

07/08/2012

Happy Tuesday everyone. Hope you all had a great long weekend and are ready to get back to work :-)

03/08/2012

Have a great bank holiday folks! :-)

02/08/2012

Celebrating Irish athletes in the London 2012 Olympics

An Post recently issued two stamps to celebrate Ireland's participation in the Olympic Games 2012 in London. Designed by Red Dog Design Consultants, Enterprise Ireland client, the 55c stamp shows a graphic interpretation of the ceremonial aspect of the Olympic Games.