Omar Khan's blog

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.

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.

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?

ISL is delighted to finally launch a brand new website. It has been 7 years since our old site (on the right) was launched. A lot has happened in the industry - and with ISL - since, and the two sites reflect these changes.

The old site featured a shade of blue then in vogue, and heralded our focus on ATG Dynamo, a proprietary e-commerce and personalization package. We were in part an ATG shop. Open source was in its infancy and hardly something one could sell to clients.