philcoders official (tum) blog

We’ve been waiting for this day! We congratulate all the open-source contributors and supporters of the Drupal project! Regards to Dries and Webchick for their leadership to one of the most successful open source CMS project ever created, for those who are not familiar with Drupal it is the base CMS used to create THE Official Website of Whitehouse.gov, The US Department of Commerce, most of the website for Sony BMG’s Artists such as Christina Aguillera, the REALLY smart people at MENSA use drupal for their main website, and a lot more, if you want to see a list of the most high-profile projects built using Drupal, head to Dries Buytaert’s (Dries is the creator of Drupal) list which can be found here.

For the past year philcoders have created our projects using Joomla. Another popular CMS which will be releasing version 1.6 of their CMS very soon. Some of the projects we created using Joomla are The Official Website Of Queen Margarette Hotel, the website for Ginoo At Binibining Quezon 2010 and Flavours Holidays (We subcontracted the flavours project from another Irish owned web development company). We also have conducted seminars featuring Joomla in 2010 and 2009, the latest being the SLSU Web Development Seminar, for Southern Luzon State University’s 3rd, 4th and 5th Year Computer Engineering Students. Another open-source project we use is Wordpress, which is a blogging platform we used to create Alaxon Inc a consulting company based in Las Vegas Nevada. We’ve known Joomla’s inside like the back of our hand, we have no problem creating complete websites, designing templates and custom extensions with its MVC prefferring engine and we know its limits and it has some very good functionalities also.

But for 2011, it will at most be Drupal 7 for the projects we do here at philcoders, there are three projects we hope to launch this January 2011 using Drupal 7, one is the Official Website of Kamayan Sa Palaisdaan - one of the most popular restaurants here in Quezon, Uxcor Inc. an IT Consulting Firm operating in Michigan USA, Canada, Korea and in the Philippines, and of course, we will also be redoing our very own website, philcoders.com using Drupal 7. Exciting times ahead! That’s it for now, for all the web developers out there don’t forget to learn more about Drupal, the biggest names in the internet have chosen it because of its very good qualities. Visit the official website of Drupal here.

philcoders completed a month long website redesign project for Southern Tagalog’s first and finest hotel, and we will be launching it in two days! The newly redesigned site will be hosted at http://www.queenmargarettehotel.com starting on November 9, 2010. Improvements includes a fine, elegant design, interactive 360 degrees virtual tours, modern image galleries and much much more!, we will be announcing more on this blog in a few days. For the meantime please do check out some of the screen grabs below. We thank God for giving us the opportunity and strength to complete this project!