If you are looking into developing a brand new website or redesigning your existing site you will of course be dealing with several web design companies to obtain quotes and gather information and ideas for your project. As you enter into these discussions, you will inevitably enter into a discussion about the CMS that will best work for your website.
Once upon a time websites were developed by web developers and whenever a client needed an update or a change the client would have to go back to the developer and pay for the changes and of course hope it would get done in a timely fashion. These days of course, things have changed and it’s rare to know of people with a website that is not on CMS (content management system) that allows them to manage their own website changes.
If you talk to any webdesign company about a website the likelihood is that they will talk to you about giving you a website that is set up on a Content Management System (CMS) such as Wordpress or Drupal. Some agencies also offer the option for you to have a managed website so that the web design company maintains the website for you normally paid for on a retainer basis.
At Neubreed we use Drupal as our chosen platform for developing sites. There are of course many content management systems we could choose from but as an agency we, very early on in our journey, knew we had to pick a CMS with several attributes;
On your quest to create a great custom website you will of course come across the battle of which CMS (Content management system) you will use to have your site developed or rather which CMS your web developers use. At Neubreed our framework of choice is Drupal, so today we will talk a little about Drupal and whether it’s right for your project.
Quite often when we talk to clients they haven’t heard of Drupal before, or if they had they think that Drupal is only suitable to large organisations with big pockets.