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Surrey Hub – The Interactive Druapl 7 Site for the Surrey Community

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Surrey Hub is an online resource for businesses that cater for the Surrey area. Many parts of the site are still under development with the aim of eventually being a focal point for business and visitor activities.

The Surrey Hub site was Susumu’s first experience in using Drupal 7 to build an interactive website. Until now, our Drupal 7 portfolio was made up of brochure sites including Temple Property Services and Hotcakes Bakery. Surrey Hub allows for multiple user profile types with varying permissions and charges.

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10 Things I Love About Drupal

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It is an Open Source CMS

Drupal is an Open Source content management system (CMS). This means it is free to use even for corporate and commercial websites. The content management system allows our clients to update the website and content themselves with minimal technical knowledge.

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Using TweetDeck to Manage Your Twitter Account

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Our previous two posts covered what Twitter was (What is Twitter?) and how to set up an account (Getting Started with Twitter). In this article, I am going to introduce TweetDeck, a powerful tool for managing your Twitter account. In fact, it is so essential that Twitter bought it for $40 million. It was built by a London based developer called Iain Dodsworth back in 2008.

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Getting Started with Twitter

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Everybody seems to be talking about Twitter and almost every website seems to be asking you to follow them. If you are unsure about how to even use Twitter, you may be starting to feel left out. This article will follow on from my previous post, “What is Twitter?“, and is a practical guide to setting up an account and getting started.

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What is Twitter?

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In a nutshell, Twitter is a social network that allows you to post out short 140-character messages. This message (a.k.a. tweet) will be displayed to the people following you and those searching for keywords that appear in the tweet. This type of online communication is known as “micro blogging” and has grown in popularity partly because it is a relatively easy way of post messages and links out and participating in conversations.

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Nat Foo Run’s for Rhino’s

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Our very own digital designer is running this year’s London Marathon for the first time next weekend, raising money for Save the Rhino. This charity operates a number of programmes to monitor and protect endangered Rhino populations.

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Quickflick TV

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Quickflick describe themselves as an Open Source short film festival. They are a global movement with groups in Barcelona, Buenos Aired and even Tokyo. These global groups regularly meet and host screening parties, showcasing some of the short movies that have been submitted, and masterclass events. Their previous website lacked the modern administration facilities to allow for multiple administrators as well as multiple language support. As a result, many of the groups had resorted to building their own sites, independent of the main site.

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Starjar App – Javascript Animation

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The Starjar app was based on the concept of reward schemes for children. The developer, Matt Glover, spoke to us about the familiar concept being used in the primary school that his daughter attended. The teacher at the school rewarded children with marbles that were put into a jar. When the jar was full, the children were rewarded with a treat.

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West African Minerals

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West African Minerals Corporation is a publicly traded company on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Originally the company traded as Emerging Metals Limited of which Susumu was involved with the design and development of their logo and website. Following a name change in December 2011 a new logo and website was required.

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You Do the Shoot – Hacking the YouTube API

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You Do the Shoot is a company owned by Ben Annersley that hires out video equipment for weddings and parties. They then edit the footage that has been captured to make an personally interesting video. This site was built using Joomla and two customised video players using the YouTube API. The two YouTube players were each linked to a playlist within YouTube. One was a Playlist for funny wedding videos, and the other was a playlist for wedding dances.

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