Why use Drupal as your Content Management of choice?

Drupal CMS Benefits:

• Open Source PHP: Readily available to all with a community of users for support.

• Wide Variety of Modules: Create any type of website from Ecommerce to Weblog.

• Cost Savings: Open source means no proprietary software fees.

• SEO Friendly: Clean, concise code with great control over content and strategic fields.

• Versatility: A talented Drupal web developer can create just about anything for your website.

• Great Control: Amazing control over what goes into your website.

• Ease of Content Management: Fast, efficient content management system makes updates a breeze. No more updating fees and waiting around for your website designer or developer to update the html pages for you. login to your custom administrator platform and update your site as easily as using Microsoft word or other word processing applications.

• Scalability: with a trusted core and supported open source community the Drupal platform continues to grow and gain exposure and features as the versions go on.

• Web 2.0 Friendly: with the integration and scalability comes the ability to integrate RSS Feeds, and tap into Social Networking websites such as Facebook and Myspace. Interested in how Social Networking can tie into your Drupal project? Visit our Facebook and Social Networking development services page for additional info.

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Drupal Content Management & Drupal Website Design Services are here:

It's Not Your Grandma's Content Management System...

If you are looking for a Drupal Development and Design service and integration, you have come to the right place.

Drupal is the open source CMS platform that is changing the world of content management and web development. The Digital Surgeons team has the ability to create full custom website solutions starting with the award winning robust Drupal Content management core platform. This is not the 'add on' content management system feature of old, but a whole new way of creating great looking and highly functional online masterpieces that allow the client complete control over the content and function of the web experience.

A vast array of open source Drupal modules have been developed for creating ecommerce websites, company Blogs, site search, ad management, membership sign up, and so many other features that a Drupal CMS based site can cover just about any online application today. Digital Surgeons will build a site tailored to the unique needs and goals of your organization, incorporating appropriate Drupal modules or creating original solutions that fit your company to a tee including:

* Promotional Websites
* Social Networking and Community web Sites
* High Traffic B2B and B2C Websites and portals
* Ecommerce Websites
* University Websites
* News & Media Websites

A number of Drupal 6 themes (website layouts) have been published in their open source data base offering great variety of page layout and look. Our expert web developers can customize an existing Drupal theme that makes sense for your website focus, or we can craft a custom CMS based site from the ground up, designed to grab and hold the attention of your target audience. Once your site is launched to the web, Digital Surgeons will get to work with a custom search engine marketing campaign to target your ideal customer.

Our talented of team of expert PHP developers and Creative graphic designers can scult your marketing objectives and goals into a finished scalable platform for you and your viewers.

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8 Aug: Drupal Camp India

Drupal Camp India is being organised at DA-IICT, an educational institution situated in Gandhinagar, India, between 8 August and 10 August 2008 to promote an open source CMS 'Drupal' and simultaneously bring its community of IT professionals, Drupal evangelists and students and businesses together.

Drupal is an open source free software package (content management framework) that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organise a wide variety of content i.e. text, image, videos etc. directly on a website. It is registered under GPL (General Public Licence). Drupal has been making inroads into many organisations such as NASA, IBM, SUN, CISCO etc.

Drupal Camp '08 would provide a platform for all Drupal enthusiasts, companies providing Drupal services and IT professionals to come together and exchange their views about Drupal and help promote Drupal in Indian markets. One key goal is to help spreading Drupal awareness amongst students and IT professionals by providing a medium to have a healthy interaction with active Drupalers.

Different events have been lined up for audiences: Drupal Track - for core Drupal programmers; Student Track - for students - Neophytes; Marketing Track - for corporates, governmental agencies; Job Fair - where local and international companies can recruit prospective employees; and Code Sprint - a short development project on Drupal.

Gloscon Solutions, Inc., a Canada-based Drupal services company, is tying up with different software companies and industry associations towards the organising of this event. GLOSCON is one of the largest Drupal-focussed companies in India. Apart from contributing many modules back to the Drupal community, GLOSCON has contributed the 'Gujarati' release of Drupal - first amongst all Indian languages.

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Drupal Addresses Security In 6.3, Usability in 7

Earlier this week, Drupal 6.3 and 5.8 were released to fix multiple bugs and patch some recently discovered security issues in the popular open-source content management system. These fixes, which are detailed in the release notes, don't add any new functionality, because all enhancements are being saved for the release of Drupal 7.

Although no specific timeline or final list of features has been publicly announced for Drupal 7, we do know that addressing a number of the ongoing usability concerns that have dogged the system are high on the list.

Dries Buytaert, the creator and project lead for Drupal, mentioned two recent Drupal usability studies last week on his personal blog - one conducted at the University of Minnesota and another in the Interaction Design and Information Architecture program at the University of Baltimore. Both studies came to similar conclusions - although strong in many areas, certain aspects of Drupal's administration interface can be confusing and intimidating, particularly to new users.

The University of Baltimore study is available both as a PDF download and a video, which clocks in at just under 10 minutes.

Major Drupal releases have typically been 12 or more months apart, and with Drupal 6 debuting earlier this year, it's likely to be a while before 7 sees the light of day. Fortunately, it appears that the Drupal development team has heard what the user community is asking for, and is working hard to deliver it.

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Drupal Camp 2008 in Gandhinagar India

Drupal Camp 2008 invite you to attend the DRUPAL CAMP - INDIA which is an International event going to be held from 8th to 10^th August at the DAIICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. This is the first ever Drupal Camp in India.

Drupal Camp is an event for local and global Drupalers. Like other camps, this Drupal Camp India is defined by the people and it is for the people, who are interested in DRUPAL, in particular for the learning and sharing knowledge and ideas with each other among the local and global Drupal community. This drupal camp is beneficial for all IT professionals, Freelancers, Companies, Colleges and Students who want to secure their future with latest Open Source Technologies. The benefits with attending with Drupal Camp are:

• Learn about Drupal and other Open Source technologies
• Network with other Drupal Developers and Companies
• Business Partnership with Indian and International Companies
• Job fair where major Technology Companies will tap on Gujarat’s Talent

The Drupal Camp India will be having different tracks (Developer, Marketing & Student), planned sessions, as well as Job fair and Code Sprint for the community. We are expecting many international delegates and speakers to share their knowledge among students. We hereby cordially invite you, and looking forward to your attendance and participation.

DC have different types of Sponsorship package for promoting your Organization in this drupal Camp. For more information regarding Sponsorships, Speakers and Registration visit on DRUPAL CAMP -INDIA

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Object Oriented Programming - PHP and Drupal

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) without classes C++, JAVA, PHP and Drupal. OOP’s Power in Drupal, an Open source application for content management system (CMS) and using Oriented Programming features without classes.

As all the OOP languages use CLASS or similar data structures for Object Oriented Programming, we have considered that without a "CLASS", OOP is not possible.

Object oriented programming (OOP) is quickly taking place over the traditional procedure oriented programming (POP). Programming languages like C# and Java are successful because of OOPs Power.

After gone through the code of "Drupal" - One of the most popular open sources content management system and framework built with PHP language, summary is - Drupal doesn’t use a single Class in its code base. Whole Drupal code base is based on just functions. As PHP, with which programming language Drupal itself is built, is also implementing many powerful OPP features, but Drupal is not using these features.

Actually, the OOP concept is not based on uses of data structures like CLASS. It is based on the fundamentals of features like Objects, Abstraction, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Inheritance etc. If these fundamental features are included in programming then it can be considered in OOP.

There is no keyword 'class' in Drupal code. Drupal is as non-OOP as many programmers do. But that is not true. Drupal doesn’t contain any class like data structure; still it is still Object Oriented.

Drupal covers all these features without classes. Power of Drupal is hardly depends on this programming structure only. The way, how the hook system has been implemented in Drupal would never been possible with the use of Classes.

See more details about how Drupal implements Object Oriented Programming (OOP) without using Classes, visit: http://api.drupal.org

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