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Smithsonian Ocean Portal

As the third pillar of the Smithsonian Institution’s Ocean Initiative, The Smithsonian Ocean Portal website was created in order to aid in the effort of increasing ocean awareness and ushering in a new wave of public ocean literacy and ocean-friendly behavior. Launched in September 2009 and still in beta mode, the Ocean Portal expects a high level of online participation from "tweens" 8-13 year olds, middle-school teachers, and young adults 18-34 year olds.

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The Pulse

We like to stay ahead of the game, here’s our round up of what’s going on.

Web sites should be thought of as commercials

Posted Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:30 by jeffnoyes

In the sea of television commercials that confront me on a daily basis, I remember only a few. The commercials I remember are those that have clever messaging, striking graphics, or are advertising product that interests me. Interestingly, I'm rarely interested in the product, so advertisers are grabbing my attention largely based on cleverness and attractiveness alone. For example, I don't like cheep beer, but I'll watch Budweiser commercials with enthusiasm and tell all my friends to seek out and watch their commercial if its worth it.

Drupal Icons

Posted Thu, 02/11/2010 - 11:48 by jeffnoyes

Tremendous thanks to Anton Zykin of Softfacade for his volunteer efforts to create a set of GPL'd icons for Drupal (attached).

Anton is not part of the Drupal community, but went out of his way to help to get more recognition as icon designer. Let's all recognize his work and thank him for the contributions he's made. Thanks so much Anton and Softfacade.

The suite may not be full, but we have a direction and source files to work form.

Flavors.me orientation

Posted Sun, 01/03/2010 - 15:57 by jeffnoyes

Flavors.me

Originally uploaded by thirdaxis

This is the first UI presented to me after entering my invite creds.

What kind of Drupal sites are you building?

Posted Thu, 10/29/2009 - 07:59 by jeffnoyes

We'd like to set Drupal Gardens up so that users can get themeselves into a pre-built site. Doing so allows them to use their precious time using vs building the site.

I figure The Drupal community is expert here, as you're building sites for clients all the time. What's the most common type of Drupal site you create?