Drupal is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for building full-featured, flexible, and scalable website. It is used on millions of websites worldwide due to its robust security features, which help to protect websites from malicious attacks. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, including news websites, personal blogs, and e-commerce stores. Since Drupal is a content management system, you can easily manage and update your website by yourself using just a Web browser from anywhere.
Why use Drupal for website building?
There are many reasons why Drupal is the top three most used CMS:
- Reliability
- Available resources
- A huge dedicated community
- Robust and convenience
- Flexibility
- Scalability
- Security
What are the uses of Drupal?
Drupal is not limited to any kind. A wide range of sites can be built with Drupal. For example:
- Personal or corporate Web sites
- Community portal sites
- Blogs, art, portfolio, music, multimedia sites
- Forums
- Real estate sites
- Non-profit organization sites
- International and multi-language sites
- E-commerce sites
- Resource directories
- Social networking sites
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- Drupal Site Development
- Drupal Setup and Installation
- Drupal Version Upgrade
- Drupal Core and Contributed Modules Updates
- Drupal Migration
- Drupal Custom/Responsive Theme Design and Integration
- Drupal Training
Benefits of Drupal
Scalability
Drupal is extremely scalable and able to match the scale of an organization no matter where it currently is on its growth path. It is used by several organizations of all shapes and sizes, supporting them as they grow.
Community
One of the biggest advantages of Drupal is its extensive community. Over 3,000 people contributed to the latest Drupal version via testing, code contributions and more. The community helps several thousand Drupal web developers who build their experience via projects on the CMS and also support, update, enhance and troubleshoot the platform.
Rapid development and deployment
At the heart of Drupal is agile and rapid Web 2.0 development. You can make search, blog and page publishing, content management, clean markup code, polls, forums and user log in modules, among others, right from the box. Web development times can come down from weeks to days.
Good for businesses
Drupal is a huge value proposition for businesses establishing their websites. For one, it is completely free. Since it is open source, you no longer have to worry about licenses, recurring fees or proprietary elements. All you need to do is install the CMS files in your server and you are ready to go.
Security
Drupal has cultivated a reputation over the years for its dependability and security, with constant security patches and updates that make it harder for exploiters to break into your website.
Easy to use
Drupal is a good choice for web development even if you do not have technical competence in coding HTML or other languages. If you have access to the admin panel, you can make all sorts of transformations on your website through your browser. You can copy and paste content from any text editor as is without formatting issues. Modules are mostly easy to figure out; you can manage them with ease once you get familiar with them.
SEO and Templates
Drupal has several features that make it easier for search engine crawling and ranking. It has modules for meta description, title, meta keyword and header tags, among others. You can develop content and text that is optimized for search engines and convert dynamic URLs on your website as static ones. The platform has a huge range of themes from basic ones to business-focused themes, with several of them available completely for free. You can also find paid templates or get a custom theme made.
Value and quality
Drupal offers huge value to your website with its wide range of elements, modules and much more. You can create almost any kind of website with this platform, from a simple static one for your blog to a large social networking site.
Cross-browser usability and support
Finally, Drupal also offers high usability and compatibility with almost all major browsers, including Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Every website's functionality and design translate just as it should across all browsers. Also, its open source nature means that Drupal always has a large support network, with several designers and theme makers available to solve your issues and support you right from installation to deployment of your site.
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