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2010
Feb
25th

Styling Webform Blocks

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We've had a lot of emails about our simple but effective webform block module over the past year. It's great to know it has filled a gap for a lot of Drupal users out there.

One of the common questions we keep getting is about how we styled up the webform to look like our Ixis contact form in the footer of all our site pages.

The answer is simple: adding container tags around sets of the form fields is all you need! This is achieved by adding some additional form API attributes called #prefix (before the content) and #suffix (after the content).

2010
Jan
26th

New Year, New Staff

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We kicked off the new year with expansion in our web development team to meet the never ending increase in Drupal demand.

During the last 12 months we were turning down work because the team was fully booked every month with client projects, and 2010 has already brought a wave of new clients for both the development and hosting services, so the team expansion could not come at a better time.

The content management platform Drupal powers 100% of Ixis' projects, and has seen a huge increase in adoption from small to International organisations across the world. This growing buzz has lead to a staggering increase in Drupal specific work leads on a daily basis for us here at Ixis IT.

2009
Oct
13th

Ixis join the Acquia partnership programme

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To strengthen the support capabilities with our clients, Ixis have partnered with Acquia to provide an additional level of support for our clients.

In addition to support we also get access to the additional marketing, branding, and services with Acquia provides. We look forward to a growing partnership as we attract larger Drupal development projects in the years to come.

Acquia Partners include some of the most talented contributors to the Drupal community and have completed successful Drupal projects worldwide for clients large and small. We at Ixis are proud to be amongst the members of the Acquia scheme.

2009
Sep
25th

We want PHP/Drupal Developers

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After another successful year in the land of Drupal we're pleased to be expanding the development team here at Ixis. We're on the look out for two developers to join us on-site in our Daresbury office in the UK. Your work will be based at our new office and travel to clients is not required.

We work in a relaxed and informal environment, where the ability to manage your time and work load independently is important. You'll often be involved in several projects at the same time, although you may be responsible for a website from start to finish depending on work load.

2009
Jul
31st

Fresh Handy Drupal Modules - July 2009

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Drupal 6 is seeing some great handy modules being released over the last few months. With the sheer amount of projects being created on drupal.org its a job in itself to keep up with whats already out there. We're increasingly finding there's a module for "that" when a project needs something.

2009
Jul
14th

Open Atrium Rolls Out The Stable

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The good guys at Development Seed rolled out a rather hotly anticipated product this afternoon known as Open Atrium.

The web based intranet platform including several built in common features such as groups, projects, case tracker, per-user blogging facilities and a rather useless shoutbox facility.

Development Seed have pulled together a lot of strong Drupal components to provide some great functionality in a really quite flexible architecture. On top of the off the shelf modules such as Views and CCK, and some home grown Development Seed releases such is as Spaces and Contexts.

2009
Jun
19th

Drupalicon Winners

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The quick reactions of some members of the Drupal community a couple of weeks ago ensured they bagged themselves a little blue Drupalicon of their own in our giveaway.

We're pleased to announce that Jonathan, John, Amye, Amanda, Oliver, and Karoly all sent a winning message via our contact form. The winners spanned the globe, from the UK and France, to Africa, Canada, and the USA.

As mentioned in a previous blog post, an attendee at Drupalcamp UK built a nifty Drupalicon tracking map to see how far they have travelled. We're hoping the winners will add themselves to the map soon!

2009
Jun
16th

Preventing Admin Footer Output in Drupal AJAX Calls

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Some administration and debugging modules for Drupal attach their statistics to the end of Drupal rendered pages using PHP's register_shutdown_function function facility. This is great to ensure the output is always available, no matter how badly built the theme being used is.

Examples of modules adding their stats to the footer include the superb Devel package which allows outputting statistics on your database queries (or "Gunk" as its called in the source code), and the Memcache Admin UI module which provides information about the memcache bin usage.

2009
Jun
15th

Drupalcamp Success!

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The first Drupalcamp UK was held over the weekend at the BBC Backstage in Manchester. It was a great success with a large number of visitors showing up for both days. Congratulations to Dan Smith for pulling the event together and keeping it going over the weekend.

It was great to put faces to names, and chat with developers from across the country.

2009
Jun
14th

Setting up Multisites in Drupal

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I dipped my toe in to the world of presenting at this weekends Drupalcamp, giving a short 30 minute session on how to configure your server environment to work with Drupals Multisite ability.

The slides used in the session are now available on slideshare.net if you'd like to take a closer look at the command line output I demonstrated, or the Apache VirtualHost configuration format.

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