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27% Visitors leave sites because of broken links, missing media or slow pages. And most do not return. Can you afford to lose 1/3 of your customers?

Ivesia’s software testing & quality assurance services ensure quality of your software, which enhances your business decisions and allows you to serve your clients better. Ivesia is committed to providing you  exceptional software test consulting & quality assurance services, whether the engagement is supplementing your in-house staff; acting as an extension of your IT team or taking complete ownership of your software QA testing team.

At Ivesia, we know that Publishing, Marketing and Corporate Communications professionals are facing common critical issues:

  • An ever growing volume of online content
  • Shorter lead times for incremental content updates
  • A risky lack of efficiency and accuracy when publishing content

Creating Custom Properties in SharePoint Web Part

A web part by default has some properties like Title, Height, Width etc… The values for these properties can be either set through code or by using Edit Web Part option. The properties are normally displayed in a Property Pane on the right hand side, when Edit Web Part is clicked. Also these properties are grouped into sections like Appearance, Layout and Advanced.

There will be situations where we have to create a Custom Property whose value can be given by end user. The values of such Custom Properties could be used in some process during the execution of the Web Part.

This can be achieved by adding a new property (member variable) in the Web Part class. This new member variable will be declared as public and Get and Set options will be used to handle the value of this property.

Publishing industry – what CMS?

There is a large print and online media publishing house that needs a content management system (CMS). It currently has multiple publications running on different platforms, and want to bring all of that under one CMS portfolio. What should it choose?

The choices are plenty, so it all depends on what needs to be accomplished and how the internal teams are structured. If you look at it, CMS for the publishing industry goes beyond the vanilla stuff like content creation, workflow, and approval. Instead these companies demand a whole load of features in order to interact with consumers and monetize content.

Managing media industry websites the Drupal way

The needs of the media industry in regards to web presence are fairly standard. They want great look and feel along with excellent functionality. Digital content creation and management, along with monetization are some important and focused activities of a media company online.

Media industry CMS needs range from using event calendars to integrating with social media, as well as leveraging polls, surveys, video and contest promotions, video shows, live telecasts, photo galleries, online payment integration, and other consumer interaction features. All of this is handled extremely well by Drupal, although it’s not the only CMS available. However, Drupal seems to be the top choice of web development teams all around the world when it comes to working with the media industry.

Drupal 7 ideal for the social media age

We are becoming an ‘always-connected’ society through increasing use of Internet and mobile. People look for most information online, which makes every organization take its web presence seriously. Now with the advent of social media, interaction between users and companies online has become even more significant.

Social media allows your company to attract new customers and maintain relationships with existing customers through various channels. How do you go about ensuring this customer interaction? It is through usage of content management systems and content management frameworks like Drupal. To give a brief overview of Drupal:

Drupal core – Drupal has built-in modules that has most basic features to build a site with social media components.

Drupal community – Several third party modules are offered by the community with advanced features and sophisticated social media components.

Drupal as your CMS – few good reasons!

During a recent conversation with a friend of mine, we discussed his decision to recommend Drupal as the Content Management System (CMS) for his company. He asked me if I had anything to add that would help make his case to the management team. Immediately, I mentioned if you choose Drupal, you will be in good company as Whitehouse, Warner Brothers, AOL Corporate, Fast Company, and other major corporations use Drupal as their CMS.

After this conversation, I started thinking that maybe I should gather more information about why Drupal should be considered if you are evaluating a CMS. I compiled a lot of information, both from my personal experiences as well as research. This exercise convinced me that there are compelling reasons to choose Drupal. Below are my findings: