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About Drudesk
Drudesk is a global Drupal website support agency. Established on April 6, 2015, Drudesk has risen to be an affiliated company with hundreds of websites rescued and supported. Happy customers from Europe, USA, Australia, Canada, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom are the proof of our credibility and high-level services.
Our services: Drupal core updates, Drupal module updates, Drupal migration, website development from scratch, server monitoring, fixing the website after hackers’ attacks, bug fixes, web design, UX/UI design, website audit, website optimization, speed optimization, DevOps, SEO audit.
Drudesk always works hard to ensure a safe environment for Drupal users and deliver the most optimal web solutions to our clients. From minor cases to hard crashes, Drudesk can both fix errors and develop new functionality, audit sites, increase website security, check for broken links, and much more. Our mission is to eliminate our clients’ stress from any issues regarding their platforms and to create a safe environment for the development of their online business.
The idea of Drupal support service turned out to be in high demand among website owners. Most of the development companies prefer to build platforms from scratch and don’t offer further maintenance. Understanding someone's else code and correcting someone's else mistakes can be a challenge and even a risk. But we fully understand this responsibility and perform high-level services on every step of fixing or changing a website.
We are here for the long run and hope you are as well.
Drudesk is a global Drupal website support agency. Established on April 6, 2015, Drudesk has risen to be an affiliated company with hundreds of websites rescued and supported. Happy customers from Europe, USA, Australia, Canada, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom are the proof of our credibility and high-level services.
Our services: Drupal core updates, Drupal module updates, Drupal migration, website development from scratch, server monitoring, fixing the website after hackers’ attacks, bug fixes, web design, UX/UI design, website audit, website optimization, speed optimization, DevOps, SEO audit.
Drudesk always works hard to ensure a safe environment for Drupal users and deliver the most optimal web solutions to our clients. From minor cases to hard crashes, Drudesk can both fix errors and develop new functionality, audit sites, increase website security, check for broken links, and much more. Our mission is to eliminate our clients’ stress from any issues regarding their platforms and to create a safe environment for the development of their online business.
The idea of Drupal support service turned out to be in high demand among website owners. Most of the development companies prefer to build platforms from scratch and don’t offer further maintenance. Understanding someone's else code and correcting someone's else mistakes can be a challenge and even a risk. But we fully understand this responsibility and perform high-level services on every step of fixing or changing a website.
We are here for the long run and hope you are as well.
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Bebebe
The purpose of the site is to ensure that new and expectant parents have everything they need to easily take care of their babies and provide a happy childhood for them. Our task was to make the website friendly for the customer and users.
Why Drupal was chosen:
Drupal is the best choice for online stores due to its high security, SEO-friendliness, strong e-commerce modules, high third-party integration capabilities, flexible user roles, and more.
Describe the project (goals, requirements and outcome):
To improve the website’s usability, we created additional features for it.
Main Menu
We needed to improve the usability of the main menu. Mainly, we had to edit the site’s top menu by adding drop-down submenus for the "Store" and "Brands."
The drop-down submenu for the "Store" had to have links to the main sections of the product catalog.
The drop-down submenu for the "Brands" had to have links to brand pages.
Drop-down submenus didn’t have to be long, so we needed to provide the ability to scroll through the list of links in the submenu.
To fulfil these requirements, we added submenus with the help of Drupal, added the script for submenu scrolling and changed the layout a little bit.
Discount feature
Our task was to create the discount feature in the admin panel with the following capabilities:
- to allow setting the same kind of discount for certain product cards through the admin panel
- to have the discount displayed in the right upper corner of product card
- to have the discount disappear when a photo is clicked
To fulfil these requirements, we added fields for a checkbox and the amount of the discount, and implemented the display of these fields on the product page and on the store pages, categories, brand and sales, and in the "Related Products" block. We added changes to the layout.
For the menu, we used the following plugin: http://manos.malihu.gr/jquery-custom-content-scroller/
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Megamenu
Menu Block
Taxonomy display
Drupal Commerce Extra Price Formatters
Better Exposed Filters
Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen:
These modules are great for presenting goods on the online store in the most convenient way.
Valion
We worked with a real estate Drupal website where users could post their real property for sale and mark their location on the map. The ways users added their real estate objects needed improvement. We made them much more convenient. They are now based on Google APIs integration and the "geography" of adding objects is unlimited.
Drupal was a great choice for this website for a number of reasons. Drupal allowed it to have a flexible system of user roles with particular restrictions as to content publishing, editing, and deleting.
Drupal’s amazing extensibility also came in very handy, because this website actively extends and gets new features.
Drupal’s APIs greatly helped in implementing the functionality of Google maps/autocomplete API integration.
Our main task was to allow users to place their real estate on the website map in any part of the world.
Prior to that, the principle of adding objects was based only on taxonomy. That was ineffective, as adding new items was possible only under the taxonomy terms that had been created earlier.
So now, on this real estate website, adding objects is based not on the taxonomy terms, but on Google APIs integration.
Handy features include autocomplete suggestions, search by coordinates, and the display of all objects in a particular area according to coordinates.
Due to this change, users can mark their property on the site map and sell it more easily.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Google Places API autocomplete
Geocoder
Google Maps API V3
Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen:
- Google Autocomplete API allows users to enter the beginning of the needed address when creating an object and easily find an existing address by selecting from the suggested list of options.
- Google Geocoder API allows users to get coordinates for the entered address, or vice versa, to find an address when they enter coordinates. It’s necessary for marking an item on the map.
- Google Maps JavaScript API is the map itself. It gets coordinates and displays the appropriate area, and all objects situated in this area, in response to the user’s request.
AttendingDr
AttendingDr
Goals
AttendingDR should be a light, handy network for doctors on one hand and a helpful site with doctors’ practical advice for patients on other hand.
Requirements
- quick site response
- social network features for doctors
- insures real doctors answer to patients
The features we created for this website:
Communication between doctors and patients
We integrated https://www.attendingdr.com with another, newly created site https://www.adrpatients.com/, which is a community for patients, allowing full-fledged communication between doctors and patients. Doctors can receive requests from patients about visits and appointments. Patients can use calendars for that. Doctors can approve or disapprove the appointment time in the calendar.
Electronic signature for documents
A doctor can send a signed health certificate or a receipt for a patient via the website, and it will be considered valid. To get this kind of document, there is no longer a need to physically visit the doctor, nor does the doctor have to send it by regular mail.
Doctors can also redirect the certificates for other doctors to sign, if their signature is necessary as well. We created custom modules, as well as using the FPDF and FPDI libraries, for this functionality.
Community calendar and scheduling
All users can create events for the site. If events are public they are available in the common community calendar (schedule). For private events, users can create special private calendars and share them with selected users or networks.
Users invited to the calendar can add their own changes to it. Events can be imported from one calendar to another. The calendar functionality was developed using the ?alendar and Views modules. A custom module was created to import events from one calendar to another.
Company directory
Users can create comprehensive descriptions of their clinics and list them in the company directory for everyone to see.
Jobs
Talented doctors can be found according to their specialty, subspecialty, country and other criteria.
Verified doctors
Doctors claim their profiles by entering their official registration information. If this data matches with the official US doctor DB that is integrated into the site, the profile is claimed.
Performance orientation
Quick responses and load times matter for this kind of websites. The portal uses a system of outdated content deletion, run by Cron task, to keep the database size to an appropriate level, and prevent its constant growth.
Multistep registration for different user types
Each user type has its specific multistep registration form, which helps to confirm user’s status for the site.
Category search
Any content on the site can be searched by related categories.
User logout after 5 minutes of inactivity
If a user takes no action during 5 minutes, the site automatically logs them out to make sure that nobody else uses the site on their behalf. Before the logout, there is a warning message.
Invitations via Gmail, Yahoo and AOL
Users can invite each other via Gmail, Yahoo and AOL https://www.attendingdr.com/invite.
A very informative dashboard
Users can see new message indications, user statistics, connection recommendations and more.
Articles, blogs, news and forum
We created these 4 sections for the perfect skill-sharing and professional discussions.
Petitions
Users can create petitions, and other users can support them.
Sharing user status
Users can share their status, select who can see this status, send emails about this status to their contacts and add media files.
Content suggestion
“Content you may like” suggestion is picked by the system according to the user’s profile information.
User suggestion
We built the “Users you may like” functionality according to the same principle as stated above.
The "Listening to" and "Speaking to" features
These are similar to Twitter’s "following" and "followers." Users can “listen” to other users (see their updates on the dashboard), or “speak” to all user who have signed up for their updates.
The endorse functionality
This functionality is similar to “likes.” If users like somebody's profile or their activity, they can endorse them, and other users will see the number of endorsements.
Friend / subscription system
Users can add other users to their friends and subscribe to their updates.
The status wall displays all their friends’ news (friends added, likes, statuses etc.).
Internal messaging system
Users can send messages to each others. Message can be sent to one user, a couple of users, and networks (something like G+ circles).
https://www.attendingdr.com/messages
Pop-up notifications about new messages
If users are online, they can see real-time pop-up notifications about new messages.
Message notifications without a page reload
We implemented Ajax so users can see notifications about new messages without reloading the page.
Creating events and selling tickets
Users can create events which can be free or pre-paid. For pre-paid tickets, users can specify the number of tickets to be sold. Tickets are sold via the site. 95% goes to the ticket creator, and the other 5% goes to the site (we run this functionality using Paypal).
Personal link collection
Users can create personal collection of important external links. They can select icons for the links (icons from the site itself, default icons, or their own ones) and link names.
Video conferences
Scheduled online video conferences between users of the site are also possible. We created this functionality using the http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx service.
User introduction cards
Users can send virtual visiting cards to other users by clicking just one button.
Network creation
Users can create networks and add each other to them. Then they can send multiple messages or share their status to entire networks at once.
File library
All documents added by a user to the site are saved in the library. These documents can be used again.
https://www.attendingdr.com/library
Encryption and secure transactions
We enabled HTTPS protocol to provide encryption and secure transactions to keep our users’ data more protected.
Authorize and PayPal integration
We implemented integration with Authorize and PayPal payment systems for convenient financial operations.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Views (for Drupal 7)
Drupal Commerce
Message Private
Flag
Flag Friend
Calendar
Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen:
Views because of its incredible representation features
Drupal Commerce to implement commerce functionality on the site
Message Private to organize message system on the site
Flag, Flag Friend to implement social networking features
Calendar to create the community calendar functionality
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