Drupal 8.x

The University of Cape Town invites responses from experienced Drupal service providers to partner with us for the design, development and implementation of an enterprise Drupal environment to support the uUniversitiey’s immediate and strategic requirements for a web content management system.

Service providers must have sufficient experience in all facets of the requirement as set out in the RFP documentation as well as proven references. Preference will be given to companies with representation and technical expertise in the Western Cape.

Documents may be downloaded at www.icts.uct.ac.za/dwri or can be requested via email from John.Pretorius@uct.ac.za. The documents are available from 29 December 2012.

A mandatory information session will be held in Room 2.03 at ICTS-on-Main, 7 Main Rd, Mowbray, Cape Town on Friday 4 January 2013 at 10h00 - 12h00.

It is the duty of the Proposer to be fully informed as to the nature and extent of the services, conditions and information required in respect of the process. No claims of any nature will be entertained on the basis of an Applicant’s failure to make such enquiries.

Hi, I have previously built a website using Prestashop - http://www.shreddersdirect.com.au . I am planning on building another website to sell fridges. Does anyone know any advantages to building it in Drupal, I hear the SEO is better and it's easier to add guest blogs and would like an alternative to Prestashop which is time consuming to update.

My background is marketing and my hobby is web design/development. As a marketer first and a developer second, my approach to building a site is probably different than the average Drupal power-user. I tend to approach building a website with visitor ease of use in mind first, then manager/developer second, and editor/contributor last. I know several fellow developers who disagree with this approach, but my opinion is that the visitor is the priority, if they don't find the site and use the site then whats the point of the site, but I digress.

Anyway, I was recently rehired by my former employer to develop a new website for them. This is a complete upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. As a side note, I've worked in Drupal since D5, managed a D6 (for former employer) site for two years, and over the past year I've built a dozen or so sites in D7 and with every one I have learned a bit more about Drupal. I know Drupal is an evolving platform and things get better with each release.

I say that to hopefully provide some credibility to my credentials so that what I say in the following isn't seen as a newbie just complaining because he doesn't know Drupal.

I have a feed importer setup to read emails from my imap INBOX. The emails are then sent to a module (ICTFAX) that in return faxes the attachments. If an attachment has a space in the file name the fax is never sent for in the conversation process it can't find the file. I noticed in the file system the file names with spaces in them have a '/' in the file name which will confuse CentOS and make it think it's a folder... So, how can I get the feed importer to replace spaces with _ (underscores) ???

For reference, this is the one I'm talking about:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drupal-Module-Development-Matt-Butcher/dp/184951...

If I buy this, is it going to be relevant in the upcoming Drupal 8 as well? I think that may have a bearing on whether or not I buy this book.

Thanks guys,
Kris

I work primarily on the usability, SEO, and performance testing side of things, and recently I've had a few clients ask about Drupal in regards to SEO in particular. Can someone point me in the direction of some resources, or hopefully share your experiences regarding the pros/cons of Drupal development in this regard?