Drupal

What does the semantic web offer my site? This is a question I hear all to often. Much of the talk about the semantic web, one of the new hot buzz words, deals with its integration into popular tools such as drupal or the power it will provide when every one's doing it. As someone building sites for clients before the semantic web is in the mainstream it can be easy to dismiss the technology for the time being. Let's look into why it's good to embrace the semantic web now in some practical ways.

What The Semantic Web Means To Your Site Now

Metadata is a something that's been around for a long time. It's in our Microsoft word documents, we often store it in XML, and it helps us better describe what ever it is we are working on. What if your metadata and the metadata of others could work for you?

Imagine someone is viewing a piece of content on your site and you have related content based on the keywords used in the content but, you didn't have to fill in the keywords. They were provided by a smart engine that reads you text and finds them. Or, you have some content about a company and information about that company is displayed in a sidebar automatically based on information from other services. This is what we can do with the semantic web today.

On the flip side, when we have content about sites, companies, services, or other things we want to share them with others. Embracing the semantic web allows use to do that in a way that machines can read, something many websites struggle with. Remember that Google, Yahoo, and search engines are machines trying to read our sites.

proVanceTek is proud to announce the release of a suite of new service offerings aimed at organizations who rely on critical Drupal websites. These new services include Disaster Recovery with Hot-Site capabilities and Off-site Backup and Restore. Both services are individually tailored to each client's specific requirements.

For clients who host their sites with another host:

Our disaster recovery with hot-site backup services provide a level of assurance that in the case of a catastrophic failure of your web server or core infrastructure, your website will return quickly to service the needs of your visitors. Leveraging our off-site backup tools, we will maintain an up-to-date version of your entire site, ready for production should the need arise.

Our backup and restore service provides the assurance that in the case of a major failure, your website and data are available off-site and packaged for a quick restore. Using our backup tools, you will have the ability to automatically backup your site based on your set schedule.

For clients who host their site with us:

While the data on our servers is protected by redundant hardware located in a secure, state-of-the-art data center - with multiple redundancy power sources for uninterrupted power, multiple redundancy internet connections for uninterrupted internet, halon fire-extinguishing systems, etc - we understand that the accessibility of your website is paramount when it comes to the success of your business. For this reason, we offer additional protection for the most sensitive of projects - hot-site backup services for our own hosting. If the one-in-a-million chance that an earthquake's epicenter is the location of our server's data center, rest assured that your important data is waiting off-site, ready to go live. Awesome!

Contact proVanceTek today for hot-site backup services!

There's lots of great Drupal sites out there now, the CMS is quickly proving that it's quickly earning the title of the industry standard content management system.

There's lots of great, high profile non-profit organizations that are using Drupal. Drupal is working for humanity! Did you know that the United Nations is using Drupal for their Stand Against Poverty, Fight Against Hunger, and Millennium Development websites. Human Rights Watch is also using Drupal for their website.

There's some great US and foreign government websites that have recently been released. Take a look at the French Ministry for Health, Belgium government, Belgian government, and the New Zealand government websites. There's also our NASA website and Italy's ASI space program websites that are pretty hot!

Drupal is a great content management system for any organization of any size. You've now seen some awesome non-profit Drupal websites and some great government related Drupal websites. We'd like to also share a few corporate Drupal projects that you may have been unaware of. Here's some large corporations using Drupal: Sanyo, AOL, Yahoo, FedEX, Nike, Disney, Fox, and Universal, just to name a few.

There's lots of great, feature-rich Drupal sites out there. We can work with you to provide a solution that meets your organizations needs, is user-friendly, esthetically pleasing, increases your web prominence, and is cost-effective. Contact us today!

Drupal is a completely free, open source content management system that many intelligent companies are using today to provide for their needs. Drupal's many features and add-ons allow it to be used for a variety of website needs; perhaps for marketing, internal communications, informational websites, or for social networking purposes.

Drupal is what's called a "web content management system". That is, a system used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of web material (HTML documents and their associated images); facilitating content creation, content control, editing, and many essential web maintenance functions. Unlike website builders like Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe Dreamweaver. A CMS typically requires an experienced coder to set up and add features, but allows non-technical users to make changes to an existing website with little or no training.

Thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites. Take for example, large corporations use Drupal - like Yahoo, Sony, Warner Bros, Universal Studios, Fox, Lifetime, The New York Observer, and more.

proVanceTek has chosen to use Drupal exclusively for all of our CMS based websites for a number of reasons. Some of these reasons include the following:

• Drupal is open source, therefore, unlike similar commercial software, it doesn't cost any money to use the software. We can pass this savings off to our clients.
• Drupal's easy user interface and abundant feature list means it takes little effort to get lots done efficiently.
• Drupal provides for all your content needs, including information, images, podcasts, blogs, video, events and calendars, polls, collaborative work, forums, etc.
• We've developed a

Overall, Drupal is a good choice for today's companies of any size because it is free, easy, and incredibly flexible.

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