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16May
Drupal Checklist

Going live! A Drupal checklist

So you're launching a new website or replacing an old one and want to make sure everything goes smoothly? This guide will give you a run-down of everything you can check to avoid common pitfalls!

13May
Drupal is Rubbish

Drupal is Rubbish (Apparently!)

I was recently in a meeting with a design agency who had to use Drupal for one of their websites and they hadn’t heard good things about it. The points they raised were common ones so I thought I would cover them here. This blog post isn’t a bash against Drupal, we are clearly huge Drupal fans!

8May
Contributing a Drupal Module

Drupal.org - Contributing a Module & The Review Process

I recently went through the process of contributing my first Drupal 7 module, and while the process isn't too hard there were many things that would have been helpful to know at the start rather than finding out half way through the process.

6May
Bristol 10k

We did it again - Bristol 10k 2013

On 5th May 2013 Microserve took part in the Bristol 10k for the 3rd year running.

4Apr
Microserve's Team Carousel using the Roundabout plugin

jQuery Roundabout plugin – A Showcase

Roundabout for jQuery by Fred LeBlanc is a useful plugin to achieve a roundabout style carousel effect.

19Mar
Responsive Design

Responsive Design: Why your site should go mobile

Should my site go mobile? What is responsive design all about? and How many people view my site on a mobile phone? are all questions frequently asked by site owners.

11Mar

Responsive design with Omega

In this day and age most of us have a mobile device of some description, whether that's an iPad, smart phone, or one of the hundreds of the now alternative tablets that are available on the market.

4Mar

Microserve heads to Drupal Camp London

The team from Microserve headed over to London on the 1st and 2nd of March to attend the conference of the year, Drupal Camp 2013.

1Mar
Lightning fast code

High performance in Drupal Part 2: Lightning fast code

Welcome to the second part of our series on High Performance Drupal. Here we will cover techniques for speeding up your custom modules.

22Feb
Drupal Sitebuilidng 101

Drupal Site building 101

Most developers who have had the pleasure to work with Drupal know that there is a steep learning curve to get over first before you can really begin to love Drupal and flawlessly develop sites with it.

14Feb

Microserve Marvels stampede the Bristol 10K

Microserve will be fielding their biggest team ever for the Bristol 10k. 2012's team was comprised of 9 fit and athletic individuals however 2013's team will be even bigger with 13 people running the race. 

8Feb
Drupal Speed and Performance #1

High performance in Drupal Part 1: Give your site a boost

Welcome to part 1 of our series on High Performance Drupal.

20Oct
OpenTok Vieo Chat API

OpenTok, the flexible video-chat API brought to you by Tokbox

Recently we were presented with the problem of integrating a custom video-chat solution into Drupal.

1Jul
EU Cookie Law

How does the EU Cookie Law affect you?

On 26th May 2011 the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations changed, with the major change relating to the use and storage of cookies.

12Feb
10 useful modules you might not know about

10 useful modules you might not know about

The Drupal.org module page (http://drupal.org/project/modules)  will give you a list of the most installed contributed modules. These modules are widely used and highly regarded in the community, but what about the less well known modules?

4Dec
Drupal 2012

Drupal - What's coming in 2012...

After a busy year in 2011 with the official release of Drupal 7 in January, we here at Microserve have been looking ahead at what is to come in 2012.