Ben Guarino's Blog Posts

Drupal 7: The Social Media Module

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The “Social Media” module for the Drupal 7 platform is a great tool for website admins to take full advantage of social network integration. It helps connect your website with social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, digg, Linked In, and Google+, just to name a few. Lending you total control over commanding your centralized hub of profile information as well as powerful options for utilizing widgets and plug-ins such as follow, like, and share buttons, it is easy to see why it has its advantages. Follow me on a quick walk-through to get started using this powerful tool today!

HTML5 Review: Will HTML5 Replace FLASH?

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Once again we are witnessing the game change before our eyes. Whether you are a web designer or a web developer, you can't help but get excited when you consider the possibilities of HTML 5. From advanced animations and 3d effects to data presentation and interactive application interfaces, it's no surprise companies like Adobe © are putting heavy focus on developing new concepts and powerful tools to command this new weapon of mass attraction. Will HTML5 Replace FLASH?

Consider the User: Where most websites fail ROI…

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So here you are with your newly designed beautiful website. It utilizes cutting edge imagery and truly innovative code techniques. With crisp modern features, validated and compliant code, expert load times as well as integrated search engine optimization, this site will soon be bringing you “the big bucks” you have been working so hard for. Or will it?!?

Drupal 7: A closer look at Render API

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One of the great and interesting new features of Drupal 7 is the improved and extended Render API function. This post briefly covers some of the highlights of this updated feature available now in Drupal 7.

Drupal 7: A quick review on what’s new

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Since the launch just a few short months ago, Drupal 7 has been put to the test by the entire Drupal developer community. Many rave reviews and detailed evaluations are starting to surface regarding the performance and strength of D7. If you have not had the opportunity to review the system yet I strongly recommend taking a look!

Effective Web Promotion - A few good tips

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There are many ways in which to promote a website! The fact of the matter is you will need to get the word out somehow, especially if you have just launched a new website that did not work or look so good a month ago. New products, new store features, the list goes on for reasons why, so let’s think about how to get your online offerings into the worlds eye.

A Few Tutorial Sites


Here are a few sites that I have used for tutorial solutions. Whether I needed a quick trick, an in depth walk-through or simply a different perspective, I have found the following sites pretty useful. Take a look, you might find something to help you out in a bind

 

Chameleon IS Website Design

Blog Header ImageI was recently tasked with providing a fresh new design for one of our long standing clients, Chameleon Integrated Services. Upon review of the pre-existing site I noticed a very creative and playful design. This was a surprise to me considering they cater to government projects. For most businesses with this background we usually tend to see very clean and simple designs.

Keeping Creativity Alive

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This post is for all you designers out there! Day in and day out, project after project, we strive to come up with new and creative concepts for our clients. To stay on top of the ever changing realm of design is no easy task. From rules and regulations, browser compatibility, screen resolutions, pre-existing style guides, and mis-direction, there are many obstacles and theoretical templates to keep in mind while designing. This post talks about keeping creativity alive and well!

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Mike and his team have taken over a web site that was limping along, with an extensive list of problems and a weak design.  They jumped into the task and are rapidly disposing of issues that had...

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