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2010
Aug
16th

Drupalcon pool challenge

Since getting a pool table last year we've probably spent more time than we should have done brushing up on our pool skills. If you fancy a whipping game of pool at Drupalcon give us a shout and if we (somehow) manage to lose we'll get the beers in! (** offer limited to 3 beers per person, just incase ;)

That's right - the Ixis team will be descending on Copenhagen for a week of all things Drupal. The twice a year international conference for all things Drupal is being held in Copenhagen between 23rd and 27th of August.

We'll be in Copenhagen from the 20th August until the 27th and would love to meet anybody who we've worked with or spoken to over our six years of Drupal goodness - so please track us down or send a message to arrange a meet-up.

This week Rackspace Europe announced Ixis IT as their Partner of the Month for June 2010 to promote our dedicated Drupal managed hosting service and our accompanying monthly Drupal support package.

Ixis have used Rackspace for over 5 years due to their strong reputation in the hosting industry backed by fanatical support and an enterprise service level agreement.

A recent request from a client was to improve the Views 2 exposed taxonomy filter so that it intelligently hides taxonomy terms which aren't related to any of the content returned by the View query. As anybody who has spent time poking about in Views vast configuration panel will know, this isn't possible through the existing Taxonomy handler.

Stackoverflow.com had a few posts from users requesting the same functionality, and replies from others saying it wasn't possible with Views 2. Well the good news is: it is possible, right now, without hacking Views.

2010
Mar
19th

The Manchester Haçienda Club

Ixis worked with Manchester based agency Worship Digital to produce a great multi-media based community site for the legendary Haçienda club brand in Manchester (UK).

The project included the usual News section for promoting upcoming activities and history of the nightclub, and alongside this an events area which allowed pinning an event on the world map using a custom Drupal CCK field.

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

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.

2010
Jan
4th

The future's bright, the future's #027AC6

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If you're actually wondering what #027AC6 is, it's the colour hex code for a certain shade of blue, that of the open source framework Drupal. 2009 was a great year for us, with Drupal now accounting for over 75% of our revenue.

Cardiff Online, the British Council's online coverage of IATEFL 2009 Conference has been announced as a finalist in the 2009 e-Government National Awards.

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.

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