What is Drupal and why choose it?
Drupal is the #1 platform for web content management among global enterprises, governments, higher education institutions, and NGOs.
Drupal is a content management system that can be used to manage a vast array of applications including but not limited to; membership websites, intranet and portals, social media sites and of course basic business websites.
Drupal started as a discussion board in 1999. Soon, more and more people were interested in contributing to Drupal and by 2001 the project was made open source. Today Drupal is maintained and developed by over 1 million users and passionate developers.
Who uses Drupal?
Flexibilty and scalability makes Drupal the first choice for practically any purpose.
Take a look at some case studies over at Drupal.com showcase page
The Australian Government chooses Drupal. Read an article here
Examples of websites made with Drupal
- Government Institutions:
- U.S.A. White House, in the news #1, in the news #2 & old site 2007
- U.S.A. Department of Commerce
- U.S.A. Spending Dashboard, news on U.S. Military issues new open-source guidance
- U.S.A. New York State Senate & showcase
- French Government Portal
- New Zealand Government Beehive
- Prime Minister of Australia
- Prime Minister of Belgium
- Invest in Belgium
- Dutch State Service for Cultural Heritage
- Global Museum on Communism
- Where it's at NYC
- data.gov.uk
- innovate.direct.gov.uk
- Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V)
- City of London
- City of Athens
- City of Jacksonville
- Schools and Universities:
- M.I.T. University - Media Lab
- M.I.T. University - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
- Harvard University - Berkman Center for Internet and Society
- Harvard University - Science and Engineering Department
- Harvard University - Institute for Quantitative Social Science
- Harvard University - Initiative in Innovative Computing
- Harvard University - Magazine
- Stanford University - Humanities Center
- Portland State University
- Rutgers State University (New Jersey)
- Duke University
- Strayer University
- University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) (over 300 sites)
- University of Calgary
- Université de Moncton
- Universiteit Gent
- Antwerp Studentenstad (Student Organization)
- Escolas de Turismo de Portugal
- Humanitarian Institutions:
- World Bank
- Wold Food Programme (WFP)
- Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- Amnesty International
- Stand Up Against Poverty by United Nations
- End Poverty 2015
- Children in Crisis
- Koala Foundation
- Kofi Annan Foundation
- Mercy Corps
- Oxfam International
- Kom op tegen kanker
- Symbian Foundation
- Greenpeace UK
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- Religious Institutions:
- News, Magazine & Television Agencies:
- World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)
- Reuteurs Labs
- Edipresse
- France24, news example, showcase, published modules
- Le Figaro
- Slate.fr
- Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
- Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW)
- MTV UK
- BBC - Music Magazine
- BBC - Countryfile Magazine
- BBC - Focus Magazine
- BBC - Who Do You Think You Are Magazine
- BBC - History Magazine
- BBC - Home And Antiques
- CNN - Go (Asian beta)
- ABC - Dig Music
- ABC - Country
- ABC - Jazz
- ABC - Family by Walt Disney
- Fox - Search Spotlight
- Virgin 999 Radio
- MNM
- N-VA
- Eén
- VT4
- Studio Brussel
- 24heures
- Forbes Russia
- Mother Jones
- The World
- NowPublic
- Business Spotlight
- InfoWorld
- Popular Science
- Adds of the World
- The Onion
- Shock
- Ask a Ninja
- myLifetime
- Femina Maganize
- Playboy Germany
- P-Magazine
- Multimedia Enterprises and Institutions:
- Games and Entertainment:
- Information Technologies (IT):
- Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)
- Internet Committee for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - Meetings
- Google - Measurement Lab
- Yahoo - Research
- Yahoo - Style Guide
- AT&T - Apps Beta
- Novell - Communities
- AOL - Corporation
- AOL - Developer Network
- Nokia - Research Center
- Sony Ericsson - Labs
- Sony Playstation - Asia
- Sanyo - Australia
- Intel - AppUp Developer Program
- nVidia - Developers
- MacWorld Expo
- Adobe - Flex.org
- DivX - Labs
- Rackspace - Hosting Support
- SourceForge.com
- Digg - Blog
- Food Industry:
- Sports Enterprises:
- Other Enterprises:
- Science:
- Personalities:
- Barack Obama
- Mike Bloomberg
- Rafael Nadal
- Robbie Williams
- Pearl Jam
- Eric Clapton
- Bob Dylan
- R.E.M. - Tour
- Moby
- Led Zeppelin
- Metallica - Mission Album
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Grateful Dead
- Pink
- Christina Aguilera
- Jennifer Lopez
- Beyonce
- Britney Spears
- Avril Lavigne
- Michael Jackson
- Flip Kowlier
- Francesca Battistelli
- John Travolta Movies
- e-Commerce Sites:
- Opensource and Freeware:
- Other sites:
Drupal is more than a CMS
In reality, Drupal is more than a CMS, rather it is a powerful framework which allows developers to work with modules that are completely customisable so rather than having a CMS where you have to build your site according to its restrictions, Drupal provides a CMS framework that is tailored and completely customised to your business.
Drupal offers you a world where you command what the site will do, tailored to your specific business requirements and then we develop that on a framework that allows your staff to modify and create content in this framework without any programming skills required.
Drupal is a tool that allows web developers to deliver custom website solutions
Drupal is often referred to as the 'developers CMS' - is that such a bad thing? This refers to the fact that it's a developers play ground. A framework that exists to allow your developer to say "yes" we can do that, to offer you your very own tailored website or application and then hand it over to you in an easy to use interface for editing, adding and modifying content.
Have you got different staff members who should only be able to edit certain sections of content whilst giving others complete control? No problem using Drupal your developer can set that up.
It’s Open Source which means you are not locked in with a particular web developer, you own your site and you have a huge community behind you to support you. Drupal allows you the flexibility to build highly functional custom modules to accomplish near any task, there are many high-quality modules available for add-on capability.
Drupal is infinitely scaleable -want to build a social networking site, marketplace or directory website..no problem with Drupal.
Drupal is also well documented and is mature. It's huge community of supporters and developers mean you remain supported if you leave you current developer.
If you have any questions about our range of web design and development services or would like to know more about what we can do for your business, please call (02) 8006 3402 or contact us as we'd love hear your ideas.