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For the first time in American history, a President is seeking to utilize the latest in communication technologies to directly connect the government with its people. On December 8th, a memorandum went out to executive departments and agencies, informing them of the specific steps required by the Open Government Directive (OGD).

The more Drupal sites we build at ISL, the more I think Drupal is best described as a content publishing machine. More than other content management systems, it allows for an organic relationship to content flowing in from two sources: traditional editorial staff, and actual site users. Managing a Drupal site is like sitting in the hub of a content exchange, with the ability to deploy bits and pieces where you want.

One of the the most important things for a successful Drupal website is to keep the code it uses up to date and secure. To do this, many times you must update code from Drupal.

How do you search? Search engines serve as the gateway to web pages. This has been true for quite some time now, but I am always fascinated by observing my own search behavior and the search behavior of others. I think it is interesting to watch how someone navigates to a website via search or a web browser. I have overheard amusing conversations about how people use search, or guide a person to a specific destination on the web. This post explores some of my observations relating to the web and this tool we call search.

One of the most significant accomplishments in Drupal's contributed modules lately has to be Views version 2 for Drupal 6. Already a very popular module before with its first version, Views 2 now has many more features and a brand new UI.

Blogging can be a great benefit to your business if done well. In this post I will explore the benefits a blog can offer your business and why you should consider taking part in this method of direct communication with your audience.

Drupal is a game-changing website development platform. Its built-in features include user registration, comments, blogs, collaborative books and forums, personal pages, and many more components essential to social networking and community websites. Integral to Drupal is the assumption that human beings who come to a website should be able to help build it.

If you are a newcomer to the world of web development, one of the scariest things to understand is the code that makes everything come together on a site. From basic HTML markup to CSS, many different elements and languages are working in tandem to achieve a certain goal. Sometimes getting things on your site to look and act the way you want can be tricky, but luckily there are tools out there that can help you fine tune your site experience and quickly fix errors without spending hours (or even days) creating and checking code.

How much of an average website's traffic actually comes from Google? As Comscore and other sources have been reporting, Google's proportion of total search traffic continues to climb, and almost hit 2 out of 3 searches on the web in July 2008. What does this mean for the average website? What proportion of its total traffic comes from Google?

Simply launching an AdWords campaign is generally fast and easy, but to truly configure your campaign correctly takes time, research, consideration and testing. This post will identify some important areas of ad campaigns that can get overlooked.