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Marker Seven's Art is Education Site wins IMA Outstanding Achievemanet Award

Marker Seven is proud to announce that it recently won the Interactive Media Awards Outstanding Achievement Award for 2012 (in the Kids category) out of 133 entries for the recently redesigned Art Is Education Website. This award represents one of the highest honors bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards. It represents the very best in design, content quality, feature functionality, usability, and standards compliance.

Integrating Salesforce with Drupal 7

We were recently inspired by Salesforce’s annual “Dreamforce” conference to show how important it is for Drupal websites to integrate with Salesforce. The most common use case for integrating Salesforce with a Drupal site is something like this: Visitors fill out a contact webform on a Drupal website. The data from the form submission is transmitted to Salesforce, where it’s stored as a new record (or "lead" in CRM terms).

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Adobe Announces "Edge"

Adobe recently held an event in San Francisco as part of their Create the Web tour. The tour (and this event in San Francisco) focuses on how Adobe is helping the web move forward, and shows off its cool new Edge product suite that's full of new tools and technologies that enable web designers and developers to create the experiences that push the boundaries of what is possible on the web.

Marker Seven Launches Web Solution for Pearson Education

We're proud to announce the release of one of our latest projects: an integrated web solution for Pearson Media's (part of Pearson Education) online media courses. The solution is a website and application that allows universities and high schools to manage online speech course submissions (of videos and other materials) and grading for the courses.

How NOT to Overlook Large Datasets in Drupal

How to handle big datasets in Drupal is often an overlooked dimension when discussing how to scale Drupal. People typically worry how to scale Drupal's handling of web traffic, but largely ignore discussing what happens when you are faced with loading large amounts of data all at once.