Insights

The New York State Senate

After winning control of the New York State Senate for the first time in almost 50 years, the Democratic party turned to Advomatic to quickly deploy a new website powered by Drupal. There were many challenges to be overcome, and their requirements pushed the envelope in some areas such as permissions and work flow. In

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Drupal Maintainability I – Let Drupal work for you.

Here at Advomatic our bread and butter are site planning, Drupal development, and Drupal hosting. We host many of the large Drupal sites that you the Drupal community have created. Along with that we have recently started offering a drupal maintenance service. We offer security upgrades and ongoing maintenance for the sites that we host.

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New York State Senate, Advomatic, and the Politics of eGovernment

Last November, after most of the last century in the minority, the New York State Senate Democrats finally won control of the State’s upper chamber. With the majority came budget control and the power to make Senate-wide infrastructure choices – including internet decisions. This is how Advomatic helped change Albany. How we got from early

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Calling it a wrap: A checklist for your theme’s finishing touches

Whew. It’s finally over. Months and months have gone by, and the project you’ve been working on is almost ready for launch. Normally, you’d be happy to just push the project to the back of your mind and say, “NEXT!”… Before that though, I think there are a few things we owe the client… little

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Zen and the Art of Drupal Maintenance

Recently while rummaging through my bookshelf for a good book, I came across Robert Pirsig’s classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZMM). One of the occupational hazards of web work is having your attention span reduced to that of a house fly and for some time I have guiltily been making New Year’s

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The Advomatic redesign process

Jack and I, co-designers/themers at Advomatic, were given no boundaries for our first redesign attempts. “We want to keep the Advodude and Advofont branding, but beyond that I’m open to anything,” Adam said. As designers know, the word “anything” is horrifying — and rarely true. But the ability to start out in left field and

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