Multiple moving parts needed to align for the 6th largest county in the United States to migrate its website from a proprietary software platform to an open source Drupal CMS within the timeframe of an 18-month hard stop.  The proprietary software upon which Orange County, Calif’s previous… Read More

The City of Washington, D.C., the State of New York Governor’s Office, Orange County, Calif., the U.S. General Accounting Office, and NASA are just a few of the thousands of public sector websites worldwide that are on Drupal. Why does Drupal have such a strong appeal for federal, state, local… Read More

More and more often, clients are asking us: “Do I need a cookie policy on my website?” We’d like to be able to site clear regulatory guidelines concerning cookie policies and data protection, but in the current environment, the most accurate answer that we have concerning cookie-related questions… Read More

This week, I attended Experience Acquia 2022 in Washington, D.C. The all-day event covered essential perspectives on the current digital experience landscape, along with various aspects of government website design and development.  Honored for the opportunity to serve as both a panelist and… Read More

We frequently have the opportunity to speak with website stakeholders within state and local government, and quite often, essential questions emerge concerning open source vs. proprietary web solutions.  Stakeholders want to know: What are the advantages of open-source software? What’s… Read More

The proprietary software upon which Orange County’s previous website had been built, represented the best available solution at the time it was developed. Over the course of a decade and a half, as Drupal made quantum evolutionary leaps forward, the county’s proprietary web software proved to be… Read More

Websites for state and local governments are being called upon to do more heavy lifting than ever before.  Digital transformations and a wide range of initiatives in pursuit of greater efficiencies were well in the works at the start of 2020. Covid-19 took it up several notches -- driving… Read More

The privilege of partnering with the dedicated team at Marin County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services Prevention & Outreach in the design and development of their new website was an honor for all of us at Promet Source. This week, that honor was magnified with the news that the website… Read More

Last week, one of the largest and most populous counties in the United States launched a new website that a team of us at Promet Source had the privilege to design, build, and manage the content migration from a proprietary CMS.  Seeing this beautiful multi site project through to completion… Read More