Drupal and its advantage to create a CMS website

Drupal is a content management software. It's used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day. Drupal has great standard features, like easy content authoring, reliable performance, and excellent security. But what sets it apart is its flexibility; modularity is one of its core principles. Its tools help you build the versatile, structured content that dynamic web experiences need. It's also a great choice for creating integrated digital frameworks. You can extend it with anyone, or many, of thousands of add-ons. Modules expand Drupal's functionality. Themes let you customize your content's presentation. Distributions are packaged Drupal bundles you can use as starter-kits. Mix and match these components to enhance Drupal's core abilities. Or, integrate Drupal with external services and other applications in your infrastructure. No other content management software is this powerful and scalable. The Drupal project is open source software. Anyone can download, use, work on, and share it with others. It's built on principles like collaboration, globalism, and innovation. Drupal will always be free.

Drupal was originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board, Drupal became an open source project in 2001. The name Drupal represents an English rendering of the Dutch word druppel, which means "drop", as in a water droplet. The name came from the now-defunct Drop.org Web site, whose code slowly evolved into Drupal.

Drupal 8 is the biggest update in Drupal's history. Creating content is easier. Every built-in theme is responsively designed. It's available in 100 languages, and its integration tools make it a great hub for complex ecosystems.

Drupal created for CMS (Content Management System) framework. It saves money because this framework is made of PHP. This platform is the most widely used platform that makes it the best web development platform with many of the advantages.

The Drupal community is one of the largest open source communities in the world. As of September 2018, the Drupal community comprised more than 1.3 million members.

Benefits of using Drupal

Experiences faster

Speed matters in digital marketing. A digital-first organization needs a platform that helps them move quickly and capitalize on business opportunities. Drupal’s flexible platform lets marketers and developers overcome bottlenecks and delays so they can run a fast and agile team and create amazing experiences.

Customizable

Drupal is highly customizable as compared to other CMS which is an advantage of Drupal web development. It is customizable in terms of all the feature it has, operations, layouts, and designs. This makes the developer’s first choice of choosing this platform because it allows them to customize the layouts as per client’s requirements.

Enterprise-class Software

Developers can easily and readily integrate it with other applications like SAP, phpBB, etc, all possible because Drupal is an enterprise-class CMS. It is enterprise-class CMS in terms of scalability. You can use it for huge or small organizations. This platform is really flexible, more reliable, easily manageable, no compromise on security and it has all the resources that you need.

SEO-Friendly

SEO the most important ingredient of online marketing strategies, Drupal help and enables companies to come forward with their SEO-Friendly websites. The Drupal platform has great flexibility of displaying the content that the search engine likes and makes your content on top searches. That means more traffic to your website.

Variety of content types

Drupal is famous for allowing to create and manage many content types, like videos, polls, user management, text, blogs, podcasts, statistics, and others.

Plugins

The script has several thousands of plugins available on its website. Since Drupal is an Open Source, you can use as well as create your own plugins.

API Support

All types of social sites custom modules can be made by using these well-documented API including Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps, Google Analytics, Youtube etc. It’s another major advantage of Drupal development.

Mobile Ready platform

Drupal is a mobile-ready platform that means it provides the flexibility to the developers so that they can make the site useable by smartphone users and they can view the site same as a desktop user do. This feature is reliable for small businesses so that they can generate more and more leads. Having a  Mobile-ready feature in a platform is the real advantage of web development.

Popularity

Drupal is the platform in the United States, London, France, and more use to communicate with citizens. It’s the framework media companies like BBC, NBC, and MTV UK rely on to inform and entertain the world. It’s part of how organizations and universities like Amnesty International and the University of Oxford work to make the world a better place.

Digital innovation and ideas

Drupal enables continuous digital innovation at leading organizations like Weather.com and NBCUniversal. With Drupal, marketers, and web developers can create and manage great web, mobile and social experiences. And they can improve and adapt quickly thanks to ongoing innovation and ideas from the Drupal community.

Support

On the Drupal homepage, there's documentation, well-developed discussion board, chat, mailing list, etc. You can find their plenty of information and help concerning the management and modification of the script.

 

Drupal is an advanced CMS system offering plenty of functions, that in other scripts require installing many plugins. Unfortunately, it means, that any interference in the script's code requires advanced knowledge of PHP and HTML languages as well as CSS. Luckily for those with at least basic knowledge of these languages, there's a very good technical support. It's a perfect solution if companies and developers want to make websites with rich features, high-quality in a small amount of time and cost, a website that fulfills all the requirements of their clients. 

 

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