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RovarSoft Areas of Expertise
| Capability | How We Use It | |
|---|---|---|
| Drupal OpenLayers Module |
 OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. |
 Displaying the locations of restaurants and fisheries which supply them. |
| Drupal Panels |
 Drupal Panels -- a powerful paradigm for creating flexible layouts. |
 A site redesign which echoes the style of the original site. |
| Automated Production of Plastic Membership Cards |
 Imagemagick allows precise programmatic layout of high resolution images. |
 The NGO "Minsk Bicycle Community" provides its members with plastic membership cards, modeled after a drivers' license. The member provides all relevant information using a custom-built profile (Drupal profile2 module). The card image is generated using a shell script and various Imagemagick utilities. |
| Writing Perl, SQL Scripts to Load Drupal Data |
When launching a new Drupal site, it's frequently necessary to import data from a legacy system or existing site. This requires a knowledge of programming, SQL and Drupal data structures. |
 In a project to develop a job search site, we needed to use official data from a government site which lists job vacancies. Using a combination of shell scripting, wget, perl and sql, we were able to load the data reliably into Drupal, including several taxonomies. |
| Ecommerce |
 Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system. |
 Business-to-business site uses Ubercart for forming orders and order tracking. Payment is handled outside the system using bank transfers. |
| Amazon API |
 Amazon Product Advertising API. |
 Images from Amazon are harvested for use as examples of downstream products. |
| Image Manipulation with Imagemagick and Gimp |
 Imagemagick is a free software suite of command line programs to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. |
 An e-commerce site with thousands of product images needs to provide a visual cue for the size of the product. |
| Drupal Faceted Search Module |
Allows users to browse content in such a way that they can rapidly get acquainted with the scope and nature of the content, and never feel lost in the data. More than a search interface, this is an information navigation and discovery tool. |
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| Cloud Hosting |
 Cloud-based hosting is ideal for Drupal sites. |
We can install your site on a dedicated Rackspace Cloud instance. |
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