One of our clients, Pindar, recently held a Creative Media World event at The Royal York Hotel (observe Simon in studious attendance!). The print and electronic media company used the two-day event to set out their vision for the future with a lively series of customer case studies and workshop streams, providing product information and entertainment in equal measure!

The successful event generated a great deal of positive feedback, and the two days were made all the more memorable by an evening dinner and accompanying entertainments, including a balloon modelling competition and a chance for the delegates to put on a show of their own – by trying their hand at circus skills!

For our recent sites we have started using Drupal, a highly acclaimed content management system. For us, it’s a set of very powerful libraries and programming tools that we use to improve the quality of your website. It also helps take care of all the little details, like user login systems and site security. For you, it means standardisation to your core site, allowing for better future-proofing and upgrades to your websites.

Six points we love about Drupal (and so should you):

CMS are content management systems - a method of easily adding content into your website. They started out as a way of letting people make basic changes to a site without knowing HTML, but they've grown rather beyond that. These days CMS's are about working smarter; a tool that allows you to stop reinventing the wheel over each change to your website. With a well set up CMS you can easily add different templates and types of content to your site, and they form the basis for most e-commerce and web application-based sites.

For a more in-depth summary we recommend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system