Having an online presence nowadays is a complete necessity for any business enterprise and hence is capable of making or breaking its market image. Online presence most commonly and mainly refers to having a customizable website to invite web traffic and enhance search engine rankings.
There are quite a number of tools available which can help us in developing and designing a rich and user friendly website. Drupal is one such tool or technically speaking “a free and open source Content Management System” which is written in PHP and used in at least 1.5% websites*(Source Wikipedia) developed worldwide including blogs, corporate websites and governmental sites as well, such as; New York Observer http://www.observer.com/; Now Public http://www.nowpublic.com/; Harvard University http://www.harvard.edu/; Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/; and AOL Corporate http://corp.aol.com/ among many others.
Drupal was first written by Dries Buytaert, a Belgian software programmer as a message board; however it became an open source project in the year 2001, post which its popularity grew by leaps and bounds. Drupal is maintained by a community of over 630,000+ users and developers and is readily available under the terms of GNU (General Public License).
Drupal web designs are considered a better option than any other conventional web designing and web development options owing to the fact that Drupal based websites are more technically advanced. This system enables developing of dynamic websites along with providing support for Web 2.0 applications like AJAX.
This program is extremely beneficial for web designers as they can easily use the administration panel to select the available themes and also prepare titles, slogans or even logos and make up vibrant layouts. Drupal contains some commanding extensions which are known as modules that can help in creating templates with customized panels for a common layout.
Some of the salient features of Drupal web design are given below:
- Browser Based Interfaces – Facilitates easy modification of website content and updation.
- Taxonomy Module – Currently, with the easy availability of taxonomy module in Drupal, it is easy to categorize and organize content in a hierarchy which helps in content search.
- Aggregator – Enables gathering news and articles from different other websites; thereby, making it easy to collect supportive content.
- Enables generation of search engine friendly URLs (unique resource locator)
- Comprehensive Reporting Details – This reporting module provides the administrator with the authority to view the performance report of a site which includes rankings, event logs, data etc.
- Multilingual Support – Drupal system easily supports different languages.
For all the professionals working in the website design industry, Drupal has proved to be an easily adaptable resource for website designing purposes and has found acceptance across all quarters owing to this trait.
Interactive Bees has executed several projects successfully using the Drupal Content Management Systems and has significant amount of experience in using various applications for website design and development.Example of Drupal usage by Interactivebees :-
Sharaa Simsim,
An Arabic language website centering to early childhood development has been developed using Drupal 6.20 and can be easily cited as an apt example of Drupal usage. You can access complete details of this project via
http://www.interactivebees.com/Case-Study-Sharaa_Simsim.html
In case you are looking in for designing and developing Drupal website, please feel free to write us at info@interactivebees.com .
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