We design and build websites with Drupal

Drupal is simply the best Open Source Content Management System on the planet. It allows us to build both simple and complex websites that are easily managed by you. We take the control away from the basement-dwelling developer and give it to you — the marketer, the manager, the team. We focus on Drupal because we tell it what to do and it does it. Although there are few limits, Drupal does need our help — and we’re really good helpers. Some call us the Drupal Whisperers. Read more about why we like Drupal. We work directly with all sorts of clients to plan, design and execute web initiatives. We also partner with agencies that know what they want to do for their clients, but don’t quite know how to get there. We bring out Drupal, and get the job done.

Corporate & Brochure Sites

We help businesses help themselves when it comes to handsome and functional websites.  Our planning and design processes insure your web presence is on brand, structured well and appropriately targeted.  Our development process makes sure you have a scaleable website that grows along with your needs.

The cost of maintaining your corporate website without the help of a Content Management System like Drupal can be astronomical.  When Fuse designs and builds corporate websites we do so with your non-technical communications staff in mind.   We structure your content so that you simply don't have to think too much.  Focus on good content and forget about how the heck you are going to get it up to the website. Updates that you would normally have to send to your web specialists are now easily within your grasp.

Community Driven Sites

Building community is the best way to create traction for your cause, business, product or service.  Whether it’s a blog, forum, social-networking application or team collaboration, Drupal is a solid choice for creating communities. We’ve been building active online communities for quite a while now and know the keys to bringing people back to your site. 

While there may be no better open source tool for creating community driven websites, a friend like Fuse can really help define or refine your Drupal-based strategy.

Intranets and Extranets

Fuse provides consulting services for both Drupal & Open Atrium (A Drupal-based product by Development Seed) both of which make fantastic platforms for intranets and extranets. Here at FUSE, we use Open Atrium to help manage all our internal communications and projects. Atrium can further be customized to match the requirements of almost any business.

From a product perspective, Open Atrium provides an intranet and extranet solution that includes collaboration features that are commonly needed by organizations seeking to build social networking and sharing websites. Centered on the concept of letting users organize themselves into formal and informal groups, Open Atrium then allows collaboration, and access to a suite of universal features. These features include:

  • Blog: Keeps your site up to date with timely conversation. Open Atrium provides support for threaded commenting, file attachments on both posts and comments, and granular email notifications to alert group members of new activity.
  • Calendar: Empowers your user groups to share information about meetings, project milestones, and more. Calendar also supports iCal subscription, allowing seamless integration of Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook.
  • Notebook: This feature allows users to post static content, collaborate on documents, store and compare revisions, attach relevant files, and print interim or finalized versions.
  • Shoutbox: This provides a “microblogging” feature, allowing users to share short updates, links, and other relevant information with others.
  • Case Tracker: Allows your users to create, assign, and update tasks to to-do lists for projects, making for effective online management.
  • Dashboard: Allows group and site administrators to control and arrange content display, and ensures that teams are kept up to date with the latest information- appropriate for their particular group.
  • Content: Open Atrium sites can be edited via web interface using a simplified mark-up language or a WYSIWYG editor. Content can exist in various workflows and have customized fields, and sites can have users with various permission levels. Visual and other user interface customizations can be facilitated through a simple web interface. By paying careful attention to long-term scalability and extensibility needs during development, the core Open Atrium product allows for significant customizations to be made within the user interface without changing any code. Such tools provide users with great flexibility to meet unique requirements for each new site built with Open Atrium.
eCommerce Sites

Over the years, FUSE has built a plethora of effective E-commerce sites. Some fully custom, and some using Open Source software such as Zen Cart, OSCommerce and Magento. While we have had great success with all of these, none are quite the perfect fit for Drupal.

Ubercart, on the other hand, is. Working seamlessly with Drupal, Ubercart is a great out-of-the-box solution for sites that sell digital downloads, physical goods and/or memberships. This pairing allows users to locate your site easier, encourages them to stay longers, and enables a safe, secure shopping experience. The dynamic and growing nature of Drupal means that there’s most likely already a module in existence to meet your exact business needs.

Custom Application Development

While we focus primarily on Drupal, we know that sometimes only custom software will do the trick. Bringing an agile approach and years of custom application development to the table, Fuse is ideally positioned to create and launch your custom software requirements. We have helped businesses plan and implement custom eCommerce applications, Content Management Systems and tools, Portal/Intranet applications, registration systems, customer feedback systems and some very unique customized applications. We can help you understand the potential for streamlining business processes through web technologies, and further tailor a completely custom solution for any challenge you may be facing.

Drupal Consulting

Just because we’re a bit partial to the Drupal framework, doesn’t mean we simply throw cookie cutter solutions at clients. Fuse offers a comprehensive consulting service where we discuss your particular needs and goals, and either select or tailor a solution that works for you.

Maybe you need a completely custom module built. Maybe your in-house team just needs a helpful push in the right direction. No matter where you are in your development cycle, Fuse can jump in, and give you access to our many years of expeience. 

Newsletter Marketing

Based on its flexible nature, Fuse utilizes Industry Mailout to develop creative solutions for email marketing and communications. E-newsletters, invitations, announcements, press releases and promotions are all formatted to follow standard practices so not to be mistaken for spam. Furthermore, each message is crafted to appear as you intended in Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, Lotus Notes, Eudora, Mac Mail, Entourage and various other email programs. Messages are compliant with the Internet Service Providers, and sent out in a frequency paced to not overwhelm accepting servers. Lists are streamlined in both upload an download procedures, and feature unsubscribed list suppression as well an automated unsubscribe process. Reporting picks up on open rate, click through rate, new subscribers, un-subscribes, an bounces.