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The earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. Join Ben Finklea, founder of Volacci and author of Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization and Bryan House, Senior Marketing Director, Acquia as they provide a practical walk through showing you which modules to install, which settings to use, and dozens of the most closely guarded "tricks of the trade" to get your web site optimized, higher in the search engines,
and more profitable.

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Date & time: Thursday, January 7, 2010
1:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Speakers: Ben Finklea, CEO, Volacci and Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing, Acquia
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Fall, winter, spring, summer all year round admission offices hustle and grind to recruit the best students fitted for their institutions. Key to meeting this challenge is being able to answer the following questions: Where are your candidates? Where and how are you engaging with them? How are your conversion numbers doing? Drawing on our research and development experience in reaching teens and young adults, building academic websites, and developing online recruitment strategies this Webinar will cover:

  • What does the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 mean for your university website?
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Date & time: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Jason Smith, Managing Director & Chief Creative Officer, OHO Interactive and Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing, Acquia
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The Drupal theme system is incredibly flexible and powerful - allowing "themers" to completely control the entire look and feel of your website. Mastering Drupal theming is the key to giving your website it's own unique, polished appearance. In this webcast, we'll watch the process of taking an HTML and CSS mockup of a website and turning it into a fully functional Drupal theme. Learn how to make your Drupal site match your organizational needs.

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Date & time: Thursday, November 19, 2009
1:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Speakers: James Walker, Director of Education, Lullabot and Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing, Acquia
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Beautiful Drupal - growing the designer community and its impact

Posted on June 11, 2009 - 13:57 by Jay Batson.
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I'm happy to have seen the good response to my "What shall we do about themes?" post. I'm particularly glad to see a bunch of self-described designers participating, and to see the thoughtfulness of the comments.

From the 50+ comments, a few consistent messages emerged (no editorial pen here; just consolidating / summarizing):

What shall we do about Themes?

Posted on May 19, 2009 - 19:59 by Jay Batson.
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Update - 22 Feb 2010: One of the issues lightly touched on below is the market need for some themes besides those on drupal.org. Acquia has started to collect both themes, as well as links to theme providers, at a new site devoted to the design-aspects of Drupal. See design.acquia.com for more information.

(Original post follows.)

For almost as long as I've been involved with Drupal, there's been a running complaint – either a (false) perception or (true) reality – that Drupal is "theme-challenged" compared to alternatives like Joomla and WordPress. I had this complaint myself when I first started using Drupal. Our investors heard it during their due-diligence on Drupal. And I continue to hear it from people I meet who are building their first Drupal site.

I've got some cycles now to pay some concentrated attention to this, and see if there's something we can do about it (where "we" means both Acquia and the Drupal community at large.)

I encourage you to add your comments / thoughts to this blog post. In fact, my primary purpose in this post is to listen to people. So read on, and give me your thoughts.

What's the problem - really?

The first thing to do is to characterize the complaints. I think there are (at least) two high-level areas of interest: Read full article

Acquia Marina: local.css is not parsed by IE 6. How to fix that? [fixed, not an Acquia Marina issue]

Posted on April 3, 2009 - 06:24 by Andrey Mikhaylov.

Hi!

I've got Acquia Marina installed into "/sites/default/themes".

To alter the look of it, i've created a local.css file and added some CSS into it.

That CSS works as a charm in IE 7 and other browsers. But in IE 6, the site looks exactly like without local.css.

It seems that IE 6 either ignores local.css or fails to process it.

If i open page source in IE 6, there's the following line:
"link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/default/themes/acquia_marina/local.css?r""

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Check out our newest theme Acquia Slate

Posted on March 5, 2009 - 15:22 by Bryan House.
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Our friends at TopNotchThemes have built a second theme for Acquia Drupal, our distribution of Drupal, and we've released it as a project on Drupal.org.  Called Acquia Slate, it is a flexible, configurable Drupal theme with a somewhat corporate look and feel.

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Laundry list of errors in Garland theme after upgrading

Posted on January 2, 2009 - 16:11 by Cecily Walker.

I just updated to the most recent version of Acquia Drupal and was interested in customizing the Garland theme. When I enabled the theme and tried to save my customizations, I received a very long list of error messages.

First, let me say that I'm running Acquia locally on my MacBook.

The errors I'm seeing appear below. Can anyone tell based on these errors what might've gone wrong during the upgrade?

Thanks!

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How should a newbie Evaluate Themes?

Posted on December 15, 2008 - 18:45 by Jim Ventola.

I just discovered the Acquia Marina theme. Great stuff.

But how does a newbie evaluate a theme, apart from aesthetics? Are themes equally capable? It seems obvious that the theme needs to go with the intended use of the site, but what does that mean in practice? Since I don't yet know most of the power of Drupal, I am wondering how to approach the choice of theme.

Making a custom Marina theme in /sites/all/themes

Posted on November 30, 2008 - 21:48 by Allen S.

I tried to copy the Acquia Marina folder and place it in /sites/all/themes with a a new folder name, but when I go to Administration >> Themes, the second instance of Marina does not appear on the list to enable. Any ideas what I've done wrong?

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