Improve your company website: visualising online customer experience in a new way

For companies whose main customer interactions take place online it can sometimes be tricky to identify things which don’t work quite so well. While lots of analytics are increasingly available, the reality is that these require careful interpretation in order to work out which areas of a website are doing their job properly – and which ones aren’t. With this …

What does every ambitious business want this Christmas? A well-designed range of tablet apps

Tablets are in the news at the moment. A lot. In the sales and marketing world, Christmas has clearly begun and the speed with which these fancy new products are being released is pretty staggering. The volume of attendant advertising is equally abundant. Last Christmas the tablet market was pretty large – and the big winners turned out to be …

Platelets – touchscreen’s design paradigm

It’s not often that Star Trek accurately forecasts the shape of technology thirty years down the line. Warp speed and teleportation, for example, remain distinctly in the fiction half of the sci-fi equation. And yet, it ocurred to me today that there is one thing Star Trek’s designers seem to have nailed – the advent of the touchscreen (not that hard to predict) …

The best of both worlds: Drupal 8 to incorporate Symfony components

Here at EtonDigital we eagerly welcomed the recent announcement that the new version of Drupal would incorporate various major Symfony components. Now, as the August release date for this new Drupal release (#8) approaches, there’s a steadily increasing buzz building on various development blogs about the implications for how we will design and build websites after the release – what …

New start-up Acquia aims to enhance Drupal experience

Drupal is a superb content management system on which roughly 2% of the world’s current websites are built, including a fair few of the ones we produce here at Etondigital. That’s why we’re excited to see Drupal creator, Dries Buytaert, has now launched a new start-up, Acquia, which aims to be ‘your enterprise guide to Drupal’ by providing subscribers with …