Thursday March 11 , 2010
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Top of the Line

I have been dreading this theme review for months. Let me explain. As a fan of the amazing and powerful CMS program Drupal®, I believe that ALL theme solutions are important. For Drupal to continue to develop into a world class publishing tool for EVERYONE, it should be easily made into an attractive publication. For example, a small school in rural Latin America should be able to find themes for free, or fee, to skin their site.

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Free Drupal® Themes

AvalOrangeAvalon MIS is excited about our Free Drupal® Themes at lauramba.com and AvalonMIS.net. The themes are created with the software program Artisteer by Extensoft, Inc.

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Profile Update Notification Module

Profile Update Notification Module

This is an Action module for Drupal®. It sends Drupal® user & profile data in CSV format to another site via email when trigered by User events: create, update delete.

1. Download
2. Unzip
3. READ Instructions in READ ME file

This theme was created by Avalon MIS. Ask Questions if you have them by leaving a comment.


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Here's the Skinny

Themesnap Themes

It is obvious to those who know me that I have a mild addiction to themes. As a Web publisher, there is nothing more exciting than taking a Drupal or Joomla installation and skinning it. The colors, design, and layout can highlight and "pop" the content.

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Beautiful Drupal Website

Right before Christmas I flew to Chicago and provided Drupal training to a regional library. When they recently released their newly designed Drupal site, I was amazed.

Arlington Heights Memorial Library

Ingrid, Mike, Doug, and Chris are members of a well-balanced development team that created a stimulating, functional, and beautiful Drupal site. Let me walk you through some of the attributes of the AHML development.

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Monster Problems

Who would think a monster could be so alluring?

Template Monster

One day while searching for a Drupal® theme solution I stumbled upon the Drupal® themes at Template Monster. I was so excited at the thought of a quick and attractive theme, I immediately downloaded the free Drupal® theme.

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Yeah Drupal Theme Clubs

What are theme clubs and are they safe investments?

Drupal Theme Club

Have you seen the Drupal® purchased theme providers (aka clubs) that are starting to emerge on the horizon? I am delighted to see growth in this under-developed segment of the Drupal® landscape. As we all know, Drupal® is known for it's brains and brawn and not for it's good looks. Great! Looks are much less important to the core of the program than aesthetics.

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Module Madness Slideshow

Was asked by a few folks to provide my SAND Camp slide show at my blog. Here it is!

Thanks again to the volunteers who worked hard to create another great Drupal Camp. If you have questions about Drupal Modules in response to this slide show, don't hesitate to ask.

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Tech Tweets

Los Angeles and Sacramento are now OFF the list of 30 most WIRED cities in the U.S. (Forbes). Let's turn this around California!
Friday, 05 March 2010 20:42
I am sure you've heard by now about a Website that posts your Tweets when you are gone called PleaseRobMe.com
Monday, 01 March 2010 03:31
Ready for some math? I have 15 email accounts. In three months each one gets over 60,0000 pieces of spam.
Monday, 22 February 2010 16:18
I just uploaded next month's Drupal theme and this time included a Joomla and a WordPress theme.
Friday, 19 February 2010 05:07
Top of the Line | lauramba!: http://lauramba.com/blog/top-line via @addthis
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