Rowlands Group

Who we are

Rowlands Group (Australia) is a boutique Drupal Development firm started by Lee Rowlands (larowlan).
We are based out of Moore Park Beach, in sub-tropical Queensland but service clients worldwide.
Our key strengths are

• Custom Drupal module development
• Custom Ubercart feature development and intergration including
  • Building unique customer experiences and interfaces.
  • Building custom shipping and checkout modules.
  • Building modules to interact with existing POS systems
  • Building custom payment integration.
  • Selling non standard content (eg not just Ubercart products).
• Custom theming and design to theme services
• Project rescue/first-aid
• Full site build and deployment
• Building and deploying travel marketing sites and booking portals

We offer competitive pricing and stand behind the products we deliver.

Why work with us

• Quality code - we code to Drupal coding standards and subject all of our code to a coder review
• Security focussed - we code with security in mind
• Peace of mind - we offer a comprehensive maintenance period so you can rest assured if issues crop up (referees available)
• Regular feedback - we like to keep the communication open and regular as it is the key to a successful project
• Flexible intellectual property - we're open with regards to IP
• Community minded - we advocate contributing custom modules back when the need exists
• Rich user interfaces - we love rich interfaces and always favour cool features over boring bits. So that means lots of visual effects and AJAX/AHAH wherever appropriate.
• Ubercart/Commerce gurus - we love getting out hands dirty with Ubercart and Commerce
• Tight integration - we design sites and modules to leverage the existing contrib modules you know and love
• Themer friendly - no markup in code is our mantra so theme functions and templates abound in our custom modules.
• No module/core hacks - say no more
• Multi-locale/language/currency focussed - the internet knows no boundaries, neither should your site/module.

Contract Drupal labour

We have a number of regular contracts with small and medium sized Web-Development and Design firms providing specialised custom Drupal development. We're happy to play a back-seat in your project coding away behind the scenes to make your next Drupal project sing

Some of our success stories

• Send My Postcards - a custom ecommerce site powered by Drupal and Ubercart featuring rich user interfaces and tight social media integration. Behind the scenes the Drupal sites produces print ready high-resolution pdf files for sending straight to the printer
• My Greece - a custom photo and video sharing mashup powered by Drupal with custom mapping features and an pain-free content-administrator experience. The prototype of this site was built in 10 days!
• Destination Kefalonia - a custom travel booking portal powered by Drupal, Ubercart and the Hotel Booking module featuring multi-property and user access controls.
• More available on request.

Drupal contributions

Code contributions

Most of our contributions can be seen against Lee's drupal.org account (larowlan) including
1) Hotel Booking for Ubercart - the hotel booking system for Ubercart, We're the module maintainer for this project and actively support and develop it responding to the issue queue on a daily basis.
2) Ubercart Subproduct - this is a module allowing parent-child relationships for products using node reference and a simplified add to cart interface for multiple products
3) User Files - allows users to have a private file repository
4) A whole stack of media helper modules (Media 56.com, Media vids.myspace.com, Media video.i.ua,Media myvi.ru, Media rutube.ru, Media www.tube.ua, Media video.mail.ru) - see larowlan's user account for links.
5) Jquery Reel Formatter for Drupal 7 (reel) - allows the jquery reel plugin to be used for image fields.
6) User Contacts - allows users to manage a list of contacts (address books)
7) Imagecache External - let D6 imagecache work with external images (images not on your site)
8) Various other sandbox modules in development - see larowlan's user account for links.
9) A few core patches to Drupal 7.0 and Drupal 7.2.

Other contributions

1) Presenting on custom Ubercart coding at Drupal Camp Queensland (see http://drupalqld.org/drupalcamp/2010/session/selling-nodes-and-other-obj...)
2) Working on the Drupal.org showcase project when time permits - see #948062: Build Drupal Case Studies