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Open source web.ca offers custom web applications for Business, Art, and Community. The goal is to create a site that will both create a new context for your clients to interact with you, and give you the ability to reach a larger audience. With the drupal platform, anything is possible, and best of all, you get to manage your custom-made content. The tools of the modern web allow presentation of your content with finesse.

Below are examples of recent work.

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Open Source Web

Open source web is an excellent place to learn the benefits of open source web software for your business, art, or community. It features a Live Chat window, news feeds, plus lots of links to resources on Open Source Web software.

The Knackers

The Knackers play Celtic rock, mostly in the Vancouver area. Their website features a JQuery slider menu similar to this one, an Upcoming Gigs list with embedded Google maps for the venue, embedded and hosted video, embedded Social Networking links, Customised Twitter feed, and the embedded Gallery2 engine.

Swirl Solutions, Inc.

Commercial-style website featuring custom blocks, Google ads, custom tagcloud, integrated social networking, custom video solutions, and many other features. All site content marked up pixel for pixel from professional photoshop graphic design.

Dreadful Imagery

Dreadful Imagery is a photography studio site, equipped with shopping cart commerce, secret paths to private albums and full-screen slideshows for photo shoots, and user-customisable slideshows on the front page.

Bryan Treen, photographer

Bryan Treen's photography site features an advanced browse-able gallery with the powerful Gallery2 machine embedded in the drupal framework. It also features some JavaScript image switching in the top menu.

Heron Point bed and breakfast

Heron Point Bed and Breakfast's site features an availability calendar for room booking, and a top banner that changes every page reload from a folder administrated by the user. Gallery2 slideshows are similarly administrated.

Denman Island.info

The Denman Island dot info site is a community portal site that features MySpace style user profile pages, and a customised real estate listings page. It makes extensive use of drupal Views for laying out content, and has some pleasing text effects in the new realty section.

Lots of Laughs.ca

The Lots of Laughs.ca site is themed for fun, with interactive Flash and jQuery menus, playful slideshows with custom navigation buttons, and embedded social networking. It has easy user-configurable slideshows for each page.

Takis' Taverna

Takis' Taverna is a restaurant in the Downtown West side, and their website features a slideshow banner, user-managed content, social networking links, and custom photo gallery. If you're in the area, I highly recommend visiting this restaurant!

luphia.co.uk

Featuring lovely graphic artwork, in a theme that incorporates playfulness into commerce. Features jQuery gallery slideshow, and custom product views, as well as rich imagery adornments to the database output.

Sri Suwoon restaurant

This theme incorporates two schemes into each of the sister restaurants, while maintaining continuous layout through each. This is a good example of data being presented outside of the column-based layout with multiple landing pages.

Luphia clothing blog

This is a blog for the Luphia clothing line, with a new theme that meshes with the commercial pages. It features custom graphic work from Nadia Costalonga at www.fonts-lab.com

The best part about drupal is that it can be tailored to your personal needs, and allow you to manage your own site, without a web admin. You can back up and restore your system, and manage your own content. Learn about the power of Drupal, and how it rocks all types of content here. The special effects on this site are made possible by jQuery, the swooshiest platform on the whole internet. Notice the swooshy lava menu bar up top, and the super swooshy link dock and social networking at the bottom of the pages.. I know, I said 'swooshy' twice. There's more and upcoming in the Gallery section.

Drupal is an exceptional platform for developers and end users. It can be seen in the history of such high-profile websites as Yahoo! Research, Warner Bros main website, Macy Gray, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Amnesty International, Universal Music, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Ubuntu, and the White house. Why are they using drupal? It's simple. Because drupal is scalable, secure, robust, and flexible. The Views 2 module, combined with the Panels module make data presentation and layout entirely flexible. Flash and media types are fully supported, as well as tools for Social Networking, Search Engine Optimisation, secure commerce, and complex permission based user systems. Open source web is proud to be part of a development team that assesses both the needs of clients, and the needs of the community.

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