THUSA has been using the Drupal Content Management System (CMS) to provide professional, high-quality websites and applications to its clients for 18 months now.  

Our clients have taken it on because they have recognised that there are some very salient business reasons for outlaying slightly more money at the beginning of the process of getting an internet presence developed and basing a website on the Drupal Content Management System.

The Southern African Association for the Conference Industry will be holding its biennial conference between the 14th and the 17th of August 2010. This illustrious and always well attended event is being hosted at the Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel on Durban’s beachfront.

The Conference Company, a Durban based event and conference organising company, landed the contract to organise and manage the running of the conference next year. A vital part of the conference marketing is the establishment of a well built, easy to use and easy to manage website.

This week kicks off a series of blog posts that will cover what we consider to be the top five old school CSS techniques that everybody should know.

There’s a lot of great stuff out there about the new cutting-edge CSS3 techniques which, while brilliant (and I’m SO going to be using them soon), don’t have sufficient browser support to implement them in full scale commercial projects just yet.

We’re therefore going to go old school in this series and cover some of the techniques that we use on a regular basis when developing sites here at THUSA.

Recently Global Maritime Legal Solutions contracted THUSA's newly formed web design and development division to create a new and improved look for their internet presence. The main impetus behind this change was the inclusion of a new e-learning service that introduces distance learning on all aspects of customs and excise law to the South African market.

The new department specialises in creating high-quality internet communication products from high-end email marketing campaigns to complex web-based applications and e-commerce-driven websites.

THUSA makes use of the Drupal content management system which allows for complex functionality while being user-friendly enough to enable clients to control their own online content. Gareth Davies, lead front-end developer, is passionate about the need for this: