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GML greatly enjoyed working with Kathleen Kish to bring her website up to speed. Kathleen's old site was flash based and was invisible to Google! With her new Drupal based site, Kathleen can update content herself and her site is rising to the top in the Google listings. Kathleen is a gifted healer and we greatly enjoyed working with a few simple design elements to create her new site: rolfingvermont.com

See gnat-tv.org for a great collaboration project between GML, Computer Keys and GNAT TV. We're really pleased with how this site came out and where GNAT has gone with it. This was a collaborative project involving training, regular user feedback and integration with the underlying playback system that broadcasts GNAT programming on air.

CommunitiesandConsequences.org helps publicize the film Communities and Consequences and accompanying book which both focus on the outmigration of young people from New Hampshire. This site integrates video and audio clips as flash streams. We tested with various themes before the final look was decided on, allowing for regular feedback and adjustment through the design process. Look for the film on PBS or a theatre near you soon.

See our latest project in development at Lambert Portfolios. This site is in the works and we're having a lot of fun with it. The design on this site is super clean and minimal to focus visitors on the artists' work.

Drupal is one of the best of breed content management systems (CMSs) out there: if your site is complex and needs to be updated regularly, you should be looking at Drupal. It's great at connecting people and communities online and it's open source: get organized, get connected, get Drupalized. Foreign Policy could have chosen any platform for organizing and presenting their blogs: they chose Drupal.

Drupal is running some great sites, Warner Brother's Records is the latest high profile site to make the switch to Drupal. Drupal also powers Air America Radio, The Onion, Next Billion, and the highly respected Foreign Policy Blog, to name a few. Vermont sites running Drupal include Vermont Commons.

This site is run on Drupal and experiments with different Drupal functionalities and pieces. The look of the site may change over time and different features may pop in or out as they are tested.

Drupal bills itself as "community plumbing." Drupal is a great tool to present content with regular updates and allows community input to a site. Drupal manages and updates dynamic sites and facilitates interaction between users and the site. Drupal helps make a site the online focus of a community.

An important feature of any solution is its ease of use. A great system with lots of features that confuses users isn't a great system. IBM notes this when comparing Open Source CMS solutions. We keep this in mind constantly and listen to clients and end users. Simplicity, ease of access to information and intuitive structure often trump new features, more add ons and glitz. I love this system!