Drupal Development
Drupal is a fantastic platform. It provides a seriously robust and scalable web development platform for a Content Management System. Like other Open Source platforms, it can all be extended as required. This will tend to occur through adding modules to the core system. These modules often exist already, so if you need something added it is often quick and easy to do so – if you need something that doesn’t exist we can perform custom Drupal Module Development as required.
Our offices may be in Shropshire and Birmingham in the West Midlands, but we can provide Drupal Development Services throughout the UK.
Drupal Benefits
It is Open Source:
- Supported by a large developer community
- No proprietary licensing fees
- Long-term ROI not tied to performance of a single vendor firm
- Portable
- Transparent security focus
The Drupal Advantage
- Most popular and most powerful open-source CMS
- huge install base
- massive, active development community
- Drupal is a CMS and also an effective application framework
- clean, extensible code base
- many high-quality modules available for add-on capability
- keep custom, proprietary code to a minimum
- build highly functional custom modules to accomplish practically any task
- High performance
- built-in caching
- integrates easily with 3rd party caching mechanisms
- infinitely scalable
- SEO friendly
- standards-compliant HTML/CSS
- capable of custom (HTML) page titles, meta descriptions
- customisable, friendly URLs
- permalinks
- simple Google Analytics integration (without writing or inserting code)
- Extremely well documented
- Mature, going into seventh major release
- Flexible, powerful theming engine separates content completely from presentation; a Drupal site’s look-and-feel is limited only to the constraints of imagination and the modern web browser.
- Easy to install and support, runs on Windows or practically any AMP (Apache, mySQL, PHP) stack
- Powerful taxonomy system for categorizing content
- User registration and profiles
- Role-based permission system
- Out-of-box RSS feeds
- Browser-based administration
You’ll be in good company
Web sites running on Drupal include:
- Digett, http://www.digett.com
- The Onion, http://www.theonion.com
- Fast Company, http://www.fastcompany.com
- The Pulitzer Prizes, http://www.pulitzer.org
- Churchill Downs, http://www.churchilldowns.com
- The Kentucky Derby, http://kentuckyderby.com (built by Digett 2004 – 2008)
- Warner Brothers Records, http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com
- AOL Corporate, http://corp.aol.com
- Popular Science, http://www.popsci.com
Drupal Module Development
In addition to building you a whole new site in Drupal, we are more than happy to work on extending your current site through Custom Drupal Module Development - this could be something like an online booking system for instance, but the sky really is the limit in terms of what this platform can do.
Drupal – Shrewsbury School
Drupal CMS – Campsie
Drupal CMS – Blue Sauces
Drupal CMS – Barbers Rural