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Drupal Web Designing

01 Nov

Having an online presence nowadays is a complete necessity for any business enterprise and hence is capable of making or breaking its market image. Online presence most commonly and mainly refers to having a customizable website to invite web traffic and enhance search engine rankings.

There are quite a number of tools available which can help us in developing and designing a rich and user friendly website. Drupal is one such tool or technically speaking “a free and open source Content Management System” which is written in PHP and used in at least 1.5% websites*(Source Wikipedia) developed worldwide including blogs, corporate websites and governmental sites as well, such as; New York Observer http://www.observer.com/; Now Public http://www.nowpublic.com/; Harvard University http://www.harvard.edu/; Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/; and AOL Corporate http://corp.aol.com/ among many others.

Drupal was first written by Dries Buytaert, a Belgian software programmer as a message board; however it became an open source project in the year 2001, post which its popularity grew by leaps and bounds. Drupal is maintained by a community of over 630,000+ users and developers and is readily available under the terms of GNU (General Public License).

Drupal web designs are considered a better option than any other conventional web designing and web development options owing to the fact that Drupal based websites are more technically advanced. This system enables developing of dynamic websites along with providing support for Web 2.0 applications like AJAX.

This program is extremely beneficial for web designers as they can easily use the administration panel to select the available themes and also prepare titles, slogans or even logos and make up vibrant layouts. Drupal contains some commanding extensions which are known as modules that can help in creating templates with customized panels for a common layout.

Some of the salient features of Drupal web design are given below:

  • Browser Based Interfaces – Facilitates easy modification of website content and updation.
  • Taxonomy Module – Currently, with the easy availability of taxonomy module in Drupal, it is easy to categorize and organize content in a hierarchy which helps in content search.
  • Aggregator – Enables gathering news and articles from different other websites; thereby, making it easy to collect supportive content.
  • Enables generation of search engine friendly URLs (unique resource locator)
  • Comprehensive Reporting Details – This reporting module provides the administrator with the authority to view the performance report of a site which includes rankings, event logs, data etc.
  • Multilingual Support – Drupal system easily supports different languages.

For all the professionals working in the website design industry, Drupal has proved to be an easily adaptable resource for website designing purposes and has found acceptance across all quarters owing to this trait.

Interactive Bees has executed several projects successfully using the Drupal Content Management Systems and has significant amount of experience in using various applications for website design and development.Example of Drupal usage by Interactivebees :-

Sharaa Simsim,

Drupal website by Interactive Bees

An Arabic language website centering to early childhood development has been developed using Drupal 6.20 and can be easily cited as an apt example of Drupal usage. You can access complete details of this project via

http://www.interactivebees.com/Case-Study-Sharaa_Simsim.html

In case you are looking in for designing and developing Drupal website, please feel free to write us at info@interactivebees.com .

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Dos and Don’t for Designing Kids websites:

05 Aug

Now a days millions of children use internet and the number is increasing day by day. Many websites specifically target children & even mainstream websites are adding “kids corner”.

Despite immense growth in users and services, very little is known about how children actually use websites or how to design sites which cater to their requirements?

At Interactive Bees while developing & designing websites we try and understand the target audience fully, their browsing behavior and then try developing the products which fulfill their requirements.

After doing an extensive research on what are the pre-requisites for kids websites, we realized that Kids are easily stumped by confusing sites, hence the website has to be very simple. Children are usually incapable of overcoming many usability problems and quite impatient so websites must avoid technical problems or crashes because when kids face an error message either they ignore them or close the window and simply leave the site or find something else to do.

While designing websites for kids certain navigational features which one should definitely keep in mind are:

Navigational Issues

The user interface for homepage design and navigation systems should be simple and straight forward and should let the kids get to the content as simply as possible. Use of funny images in the navigation should be encouraged as the children are naturally drawn to simple, obvious, and recognizable objects.

Avoid Inconsistent navigation options, where the same destination is referred to in different ways, causing visitors to reach the same feature repeatedly.

One should keep the language simple, as using fancy wordings and fonts in interfaces will confuse kids and prevent them from exploring that feature.

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