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"SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean text editor. And it's the only collaborative one that is a joy to use. By combining the ease of Bonjour with the world's best text collaboration engine, it makes working together not only possible but even fun…"

SubEthaEdit is a text editor that allows you to edit all different types of files including TXT, HTML, PHP, C++, and more! Not only does it allow you to edit these files it also allows you to do collaborative editing with others over your local area network.

When coding you have the option of using the built in modes (or languages) and with each language there are different syntax colors. There's a growing number of mode releases that other users contribute. If needed you are able to create your own modes.

One of my favorite features included is the ability to auto complete functions and previously entered text. It also has a common feature that most other editors have where it recognizes that you have created a function or class and allows you to select them from a list, which is particularly nice when you have thousands of lines of code.

After using SubEthaEdit for the past year, I can honestly say that I do not know what I would do with out it. As a Computer Science Major I use it whenever I am programming. I use it for my PHP development, C++, JAVA, etc.

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.

Yet another yummy website courtesy of the Drupal Content Management System - http://ifood.tv/

Drupal has been becoming the industry standard content management system and is now being used by corporate companies, universities, the government, etc.

Some high profile Drupal sites include: Sony, Sony Ericsson, Lifetime Television, Harvard Law School, MIT Media Lab, New York State Senate, President Obama, Warner Bros, Francesca Battistelli, Michael Jackson, Virgin Radio, and more.

There's soo many reasons that Drupal is awesome, but let's just name only a few: User Management, Page Titles and Meta Tags, Custom Content Types and Views, Revision Control, Taxonomy, Advanced URL Control, SEO Friendly, PHP Template, Hundreds of Community Contributed Modules, Hundreds of Community Contributed Themes, Stable and Reliable, Excellent Documentation, and Drupal the Large and Friendly Community, etc.

Let's briefly mention some awesome Drupal modules in no particular order: Views, CCK, Contemplate, Printer Friendly Pages, Pathauto, Date, Ecommerce, XML Sitemap, Captcha, Service Links, Token, Taxonomy Access Control, Fivestar, Google Analytics, Event, Panels, and there's many more.

Basically, Drupal is awesome. If you're interested in creating an awesome, easy-to-manage, feature-rich website, contact us today!

This week we launched the Greater Columbus Tennis Association's new website. We've been working with GCTA for the past couple months on creating a website that would allow them to more easily communicate with their members and share information with other site visitors.

The Greater Columbus Tennis Association is a non profit organization that "grew" out of the Upper Arlington Tennis Association. GCTA supports tennis in the central Ohio area and is comprised of volunteers.

The GCTA is the USTA Community Tennis Association for Central Ohio. The hierarchy of the USTA organization is: GCTA, Ohio Valley Tennis Association, USTA Midwest Section, and USTA. The GCTA has a long history of providing organized summer tennis for the Columbus area adults and juniors, as well as running events for the Ohio Valley Tennis Association. A fundamental part of the GCTA is its support of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department tennis program.

We developed the GCTA website around the Drupal content management system. The website provides visitors with online resources including an online calendar, a forum, a blog, photo albums, and more.

Contact us today for a free same day quotation for your new Drupal website!

proVanceTek has been working with Project Battle Cry founder, Linda Cone, since before the new year. We had been working hard to release the website so that military and their families can benefit from the resources the project has to offer.

Project Battle Cry is a program to aide Soldiers, families, friends, and Clinic ions to understand the ramifications of the wounds of war: PTSD, PTS, TBI, and Secondary PTSD. Many of the most severe wounds will be invisible; the enemy within. In order to survive in battle and become victorious soldiers are catapulted far beyond the range of “normal” behavior.

We developed the Project Battle Cry website around the Drupal content management system. The website provides visitors with online resources including online discussions, blog entries, articles, videos, and more.

Contact us today for a free same day quotation for your new Drupal website!

eNumeracy.com is dedicated to helping advance knowledge about how young children develop number sense. Number sense, or "early numeracy" involves a knowledge and interest in numbers, such as their names, what they represent, and how to work with numbers through counting, comparing, ordering, partitioning, grouping, and operating.

proVanceTek designed a website for eNumeracy.com around the Drupal Content Management System. Currently the website hosts several static pages, a couple dynamically generated pages based on several different content types, it provides additional content to users when logged in, and it also provides site visitors access to a forum for online discussions.

Contact us today for a free same day quotation for your new Drupal website!

We've been working with several clients in Greenville, NC who wanted us to design an advertising campaign for them using a different concept. Loosely, here's how it works...

Traditionally, companies have spent thousands on advertising. The concept, specifically, that we're twisting is mobile billboard advertising - big billboard advertisements that drive in circles all day around town hoping that potential customers will see the big billboard driving around and have enough time and coordination to write down the phone number or website that just passed them. While this concept is kool, it's ineffective and ridiculously expensive.

We took the neat idea and adapted it and have created a website dedicated strictly to our mobile marketing services. Our plan is to, not have one large moving billboard, but rather, have smaller advertisements affixed to tons of cars. We've built a network of college students who commute to and from classes each day, drive back and forth to student activities and club meetings, and scurry around town running errands. Our concept was to utilize inexpensive car door magnets, affix a couple to a car, have tons of cars with the advertisements, driving around all throughout the day.

Our concept saves our clients money because 1) we use reasonably sized car door magnets that are inexpensive to produce compared to the large billboard prints used elsewhere and 2) we utilize cars that are already driving on the road instead of paying for a driver and all the gas to circulate around town all day. Our strategy also reaches more of our client's potential customers because 1) their ads are on tons of cars at once and 2) their potential customers are more likely to see the ads multiple times in a day.