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Website creation using Drupal

Lightbulb First specializes in helping clients use Drupal to create and update websites. Drupal is an open-source software project with a large base of users and developers. It is one of the largest and most active open-source content management software projects in the world. It provides a robust and user-friendly platform for quickly establishing, and easily maintaining, a website. Drupal can be downloaded for free at http://www.drupal.org.

Lightbulb First provides a number of Drupal-related services, including:

  • Installation and customization
  • Finding, installing, and implementing modules which meet your organization's needs
  • Creating custom modules which fill any gaps between functionality available as standard modules, and functionality which your organization needs
  • Creating user-friendly interfaces which allow you to easily navigate and use the Drupal administrative system
  • Training your staff to use Drupal
  • Integrating custom web designs into the Drupal theme system

Social networking and integration with the semantic web

Social networking allows your organization to reach a broader audience; to engage that audience more deeply in your mission and goals; and to listen in to what your audience is saying. The semantic web gives you a powerful new tool to exchange data with colleagues, partner organizations, and other allies. Together, these new tools can help your organization become more effective while conserving valuable resources.

With expertise in digital libraries, blogs, and social networking sites, Lightbulb First can help your organization take advantage of exciting new technologies. We will identify the technologies which are right for you, and develop a strategy that leverages them to meet your goals.

Managing vendor relationships

Establishing a successful web presence today means working with a wide array of technology vendors - including hosting providers, domain registrars, web developers, web designers, database administrators, and online marketers. As a leader in web development, Lightbulb First has considerable experience working with vendors. An excellent vendor can add a great deal of value to your website. At Lightbulb First, we help you choose vendors carefully, and communicate with them about your needs, so that you get the best results.

The staff at Lightbulb First are familiar with the needs of people and organizations with bright ideas. We help you manage your projects efficiently, so that you are able to focus on advancing your mission. Our services include:

  • Working creatively with your staff to suggest new technology initiatives that advance your goals
  • Writing Requests for Proposal and Requests for Quote
  • Managing the bidding process and evaluating potential vendors
  • Recommending high-quality vendors and metrics for evaluating vendors
  • Managing the beta test and launch of a new web initiative
  • Bringing your stakeholders into the process, and soliciting their feedback

Developing specifications

The first step in putting together a web site is describing the project in technical terms. But that's easier said than done. Writing specifications for web-based software is a complex process.

Lightbulb First specializes in developing specifications that are easy to understand for innovators and community builders, and precise enough to meet the needs of developers and designers. We'll help you articulate your vision in language that translates into a strong website. We'll guide you to the best practices and tools available to make your project come alive quickly and efficiently. And we'll help you look around the corner, to see what your site will look like, well before you pay your first development invoice.

Depending on your needs and those of your developers, we can provide any one of the following kinds of specifications:

  • Use cases
  • User stories
  • Wireframes
  • Site maps
  • Functional and non-functional specifications
  • Implementation specifications

With experience managing complex development projects, we are confident that our specifications will help you achieve buy-in from your stakeholders, communicate with your developers, and execute your project successfully.