Drupal for a cms

Sarah Alder Silver
Managing Director at Cranmore Digital Consulting Ltd

30 January 2008 16:25pm

I have just been asked to pick up the final stages of delivery for a small website for an agency. Their technical agency is building it in Drupal, which is a new tool to me.

The website needs to be updateable by the client; there are very clear navigation requirements and it needs to interact with Wordpress.

Anyone out there got any experience of using a Drupal-based site? Does it do a good job of simple CMS? Can you build in work flow for approving content? Can it cope with dynamic content?

Thanks,

Sarah
Martin Johnstone
Web Developer at Morris Furniture

31 January 2008 09:50am

Hi Sarah

I've just built a site with Drupal and am vey much a supporter of it. Of all open source CMS systems it is the one that generates the most accessible and SEO source code, and as a whole Drupal is very flexible - there are thousands of modules which you can 'plugin-and-play' ranging from blogs to e-commerce which means it is very easy to upgrade as your clients requirements change.

I think Drupal has a very bright future - i'm sure we will be hearing much more about it in the near future.

If you need nay further advice please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Regards

Martin
Tim Deeson
Director at Deeson Group Ltd

31 January 2008 10:26am

Hi Sarah

We build Drupal sites for clients, both to use as a CMS and to create web applications. It is a very powerful system, almost more of a development framework than a CMS, which could be a blessing or a curse depending on your situation!

It is perfectly capable of being a simple CMS but it requires more configuration to set up than some more straightforward CMS's.

On the plus side it's pretty much capable of anything, it is very configurable and developer friendly. It does have it's own way of doing things that slows developers down at first but it produces very maintainable well structured codebases.

It does support workflows but they need configuring and a particular module enabling, it's not part of Drupal core IIRC.

It's very capable of dealing with pretty much any dynamic content and there's loads of modules to deal with anything from Google Maps to syndicating RSS feeds etc.

drupal.org obviously has lots resources but it's quite developer orientated.

Any other questions please ask.

Thanks

Tim
www.deeson.co.uk/emedia/
Sarah Alder Silver
Managing Director at Cranmore Digital Consulting Ltd

31 January 2008 23:05pm

Thanks Tim.

On 10:26:24 31 January 2008 TimDeeson wrote:
>Hi Sarah
>
>We build Drupal sites for clients, both to use as a CMS
>and to create web applications. It is a very powerful
>system, almost more of a development framework than a CMS,
>which could be a blessing or a curse depending on your
>situation!
>
>It is perfectly capable of being a simple CMS but it
>requires more configuration to set up than some more
>straightforward CMS's.
>
>On the plus side it's pretty much capable of anything, it
>is very configurable and developer friendly. It does have
>it's own way of doing things that slows developers down at
>first but it produces very maintainable well structured
>codebases.
>
>It does support workflows but they need configuring and a
>particular module enabling, it's not part of Drupal core
>IIRC.
>
>It's very capable of dealing with pretty much any dynamic
>content and there's loads of modules to deal with anything
>from Google Maps to syndicating RSS feeds etc.
>
>drupal.org obviously has lots resources but it's quite
>developer orientated.
>
>Any other questions please ask.
>
>Thanks
>
>Tim
>www.deeson.co.uk/emedia/