Drupal CMS
The Drupal CMS is one of the top 3 publishing systems worldwide
Drupal is an open source CMS that is ranked as one of the three most successful systems world wide, along with Wordpress and Joomla. Drupal runs thousands of websites world-wide, from the very small to the very large. It has the capacity to support a business or organisation from start-up phase all the way through to international status.
Drupal CMS is a web publishing framework
While Wordpress is still really a specialist blogging platform, and Joomla is a classic CMS, Drupal has a broad set of programmable functionality that allows it to be applied to literally any requirement. It is hard to imagine a site requirement or functionality that Drupal could not meet.
If you are considering a website that will meet your present and your future needs, then Drupal is the CMS choice you need to make.
Drupal supports complex audience needs, workflows and publishing requirements
Drupal delivers all of the complex site functionality that modern sites so often demand, including:
- complex membership and permissions systems
- e-commerce [link to drupal ecommerce page]
- customised workflows and processes to meet your internal or external business needs
- user comments and user created content management
- the creation of complex taxonomies and content relationships that help structure site content automatically
- dynamic content indexes
- good SEO, including automated SEO functionality
- clean separation of site content, presentation and behaviour
Why we support Drupal over Joomla
The contest between Drupal and Joomla (and their respective supporters) is a long and bruising one. We strongly support Drupal over Joomla for the following reasons.
Joomla is an easier system to setup and use for hobbyists and site-owners intent on DIY. Reflecting this:
- Joomla has more downloadable site templates
- Joomla modules are easier for amateurs to install “out of the box”
BUT:
- Many modules are poorly made, reflecting the knowledge base of their creators
- Many modules fail to deliver best practice for usability and communications practices, reflecting the knowledge base of their creators
- Customising these modules is very hard (thus, costly).
While a number of Joomla modules are very good, and the overall quality is gradually improving we believe Joomla is best qualified as “by amateurs, for amateurs”.
Most of our clients find that they demand more from their sites (and so do we).
While Drupal sites are slightly more costly to setup, and require a higher skill base to install successfully, once they are setup the cost of refinement and customisation is significantly less than with Joomla sites, and the quality of site delivered is higher.
Most importantly, with Drupal sites we never have to say no to a client.