Blue-Bag - Information Systems

Sites Using Drupal

Blue-Bag — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:15:27 +0000

Drupal is a very secure software framework ideally suited to providing content management and social integration platforms. It has been vetted and road-tested by some of the most security-conscious web sites on the planet: Drupal powers high profile governmental websites from the U.S. White House (whitehouse.gov) to the official website for the Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority (London.gov.uk). But they are not isolated examples as Drupal provides the framework for over 500,000 other sites across the web (e.g. organizations from data.gov.uk, the World Bank, Sony, Popular Science magazine, Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Forrester Research, IPC , Mensa).

Drupal

Blue-Bag — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:46:44 +0000

Web content management system (WCMS) frameworks such as Drupal enable us to build custom website solutions based on a solid framework. This means that we can develop rich website solutions rapidly without our clients having to pay for us to reinvent the wheel. WCMS solutions also provide the client with full editorial control over the implemented website freeing them from being tied to a proprietary solution.

Site Maintenance and Hosting

Blue-Bag — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:35:31 +0000

To ensure that we are able to provide the quality of website services our clients have come to expect we provide the full services of an Internet Service Provider (ISP). This enables us to provide custom, secure and high performance website solutions. We provide services to manage the complete web presence for your website from registration and hosting through security and performance monitoring and support. This provides excellent value for money and provides a single point of contact for all aspects of managing your website; as opposed to having elements of your internet site separated across various providers. As specialist Drupal and Wordpress hosts we provide a managed service to keep your website secure and online.

Technology Articles

Blue-Bag — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:59:31 +0000

Customer:

In House

We wanted to create a home for our knowledgebase and created the website technology.blue-bag.com. Here we provide a range of articles and posts covering issues from using CMS systems such as Drupal through to security articles covering securing access to your website.

Solution:

Have you visited technology.blue-bag.com yet? We maintain a list of articles and blog posts relevant to the technologies we use on our technology.blue-bag.com web site. There are a range of guides, "how tos", FAQs and knowledge base articles that cover a wide range of topics. Articles cover using CMS systems such as Drupal and Wordpress and issues such as security and how to prevent attacks to your site, web 2.0 development, search engine optimisation and internet marketing.

We will be posting screen casts on some of the more popular tutorials and reviews of some of the latest modules and software we have evaluated.

As well as posting on topics such as how to add thumbnails to your wordpress blog we also review applications and software, modules and books.

We post regularly so it is worth following us on Twitter if you would like to be notified of new articles. We also have an RSS feed that publishes the latest articles.

See For Yourself:

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Content Management Systems

Blue-Bag — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:08:03 +0000

Although we do build solutions for our clients from the ground up, we increasingly base our IT solutions on standard content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress (for simple sites and blogs) and Drupal (for more complex and tailored solutions)

Social Media Marketing

Blue-Bag — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:58:53 +0000

We all know the popularity of social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and the like – but have you considered how these channels can be used to widen the audience for your website information and services. Access to these services provides new and compelling opportunities for promoting your business to a wide and very immediate audience. We have a good track record of leveraging these services to provide creative marketing solutions for our clients

Species Protection Legislation

Blue-Bag — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:09:06 +0000

Customer:

Public

Over ten years ago when we started creating web sites and applications to manage biodiversity related information we needed a public website to act as a host for these projects. UKWildlife.com was created to provide web space for not for profit Biodiversity and conservation projects and provide resources for biodiversity projects.

It was clear then as it is now that we still have a long way to go to provide access to public data such as listings of species concern and statutory protection. In fact 10 years ago no such listings were available online. So we added listings from the Wildlife and Countryside Act to UKWildlife.

Solution:

We have refreshed the design of this site in 2009-10 and upgraded the listings. Have a look and let us know what you think. We plan to extend the site so that it continues to provide access to useful resources. Now the availability of online sources of information is greatly improved and UKWildlife will feature more links to these resources.

Have a look and let us know what you think.

See For Yourself:

The UKWildlife Website

The Integrated Waterbird Database

Blue-Bag — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:00:00 +0000

Customer:

WWT

To generate a standard database from two large databases resulting from coordinated monitoring of waterbirds in the UK. The client required a set of management utilities to enable the maintenance of core aspects of the resulting database.

Solution:

We provided major data cleaning and dimension modeling services to create a database in MS-SQL of over 10 million records in the NBN data format (with extensions). We provided a custom application that enables the comprehensive management and viewing of the data in one interface. Data import and validation utilities are also provided to enable import of new data to the database.

Scottish Species Database

Blue-Bag — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Customer:

SNH

To create a single database out of a series of information sources relating to species of conservation concern in Scotland. The resulting database was to be delivered with a web interface that enabled searching and updating for the clients Intranet.

Solution:

The various spreadsheets and other data sources were cleaned, reconciled to use standard dimensions and modeled within a single relational database in MS Access format. An ASP application was designed and built around Dreamweaver templates . The resulting Intranet application enables the delivery of the data across the clients intranet. A user management model enables control of access to features such as editing, etc.

Wood Pasture and Parkland

Blue-Bag — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:30:00 +0000

Customer:

Natural England

To create an information management system using a standard data model and custom COM based add-ins for the Recorder 2000 software. The data model was to be populated with trial data from a number of external partner sources. The resulting database was to be presented online in a dynamic web site to enable online browsing of the data.

Solution:

We developed a data model based on the standard datamodel for biodiversity information developed by the NBN. A custom add-in for the Recorder 2000 software was developed to enable collection of the core and extended attributes of the data model using the Recorder 2000 software. A tag based ISAPI application with standard templates was developed to present the data online.We provide domain registration and hosting for this site.

See For Yourself:

The Wood Pasture & Parkland Project website