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A Great Year for the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education

Submitted by Ariane on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 15:31
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As some of you might know, my background is actually in urban geography. Working at Affinity Bridge is a bit of a dream job for me, as someone with a passion for sustainability and positive change, because our clients are doing such amazing work to make our local and global communities a better place. It makes me feel like I'm helping contribute in a greater sense, and that I have a way to be involved in many vital projects.

I sometimes think of the process of planning, developing, and launching websites as very much like urban planning projects. There is this somewhat vague online space that someone has decided should be built. We spend time asking questions about goals, user-bases, technical requirements, feelings we want to elicit from those who visit this space. Then we tease these into a concrete plan, and create this space and structure that will house interactions between people, ideas, and information to be shared with the outside world.

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Every time we launch a website, and then watch as it establishes its place in the online world, it makes us extremely proud of our clients and the work they do. We are particularly thrilled for the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education and the great year they've had.

Module to import MailChimp newsletters into your Drupal site

Submitted by Zoe on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 16:20
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A few (well, three - I'm saying three counts as a few) people over at g.d.o asked to try out a module I wrote for a client of ours a few weeks ago. So I'm putting up the first beta of it here.

Behold, the first generation of the MailChimp Import module. This module does no more, and no less, than import your MailChimp campaigns into your Drupal site as nodes. Why would you want to do that, when MailChimp already provides online versions of your newsletters? Because your client asks for it, that's why. Perhaps they want to be able to file their sent newsletters alongside their other content, in the system of taxonomy that suits their particular mental aesthetic. Perhaps they want website visitors to be able to find articles in their old newsletters from the search box in the header of their Drupal site. Perhaps they don't trust that cheerful monkey.

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Behold, the first generation of MailChimp Import. This module does no more, and no less, than import your MailChimp campaigns as nodes.

Customized Features from our Redesign

Submitted by Ariane on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 14:11
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As a follow up to the previous post talking about our (re)branding process, we wanted to share with you some of the details of the new theme for our site, as well as a few configuration changes, and what we learned.

960 Grid-based Theme

In an earlier post, our theme lead Alberto talked a bit about CSS Frameworks, including the 960 Grid System, which is compatible with Drupal's Zen framework. Those are two of the main tools in his theming toolkit, so we made sure to get a theme designed that would comply with using the grid system. Alberto then took the layout CSS file from the 960 Framework and substituted that for the layout CSS file in Zen, but otherwise used all the other Zen files.

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As a follow up to the previous post talking about our (re)branding process, we wanted to share with you some of the details of the new theme for our site, as well as a few configuration changes, and what we learned.

Reflecting on Bridging and Collaboration

Submitted by Ariane on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 12:28
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Earlier this week, following much anticipation, we launched our website redesign (if you're reading this via RSS, check it out! http://affinitybridge.com), which has been in the works for several months. It began as a rebranding of the company logo, then new business cards, and finally the website. When we began this redesign process with Kirsti Wakelin, who did the design for all three, we had to spend some time considering and reconsidering what we wanted to convey with our logo and branding. Affinity Bridge has always tied itself to the imagery of bridges. We had to ask ourselves if that was something that still spoke to us, and that we felt still spoke to the people and organizations we work with.

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Earlier this week, with much anticipation, we launched our website redesign, which has been in the works for several months. It began as a rebranding of the company logo, then new business cards, and finally the website.

Emma Jane Hogbin - Theming Workshop Jan. 11

Submitted by Ariane on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 11:34
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Unless you're able to travel to the US, it's not often that we Vancouverites get the chance to go to a theming workshop put on by the author of one of the most well loved, and well used Drupal theming books to date.

January 11, 2010, Emma Jane Hogbin, co-author of Front End Drupal, is coming to town and is putting on a one-day workshop for 20 keen beginner themers.

The workshop will be geared towards people who have previous HTML/CSS experience and at least a familiarity with PHP. It will focus on bringing those basic skills and sharpening them with a focus on how to work with the Drupal theming system.

The Workshop

Front End Drupal is focuses on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The focus is to show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes.

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Unless you're able to travel to the US, it's not often that we Vancouverites get the chance to go to a theming workshop put on by the author of one of the most well loved, and well used Drupal theming books to date. January 11, 2010, Emma Jane Hogbin, co-author of Front End Drupal, is coming to town and is putting on a one-day workshop for 20 keen beginner themers.
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