Drupal Web Development
Any time you’re doing a digital project, there’s going to be highs and lows. There are going to be stresses associated with those highs and lows, and they handle all that with just absolute positivity, which inspires you to do great things with them.
JOSH MITCHELL, CTO, DRUPAL ASSOCIATION (DRUPAL NON-PROFIT)
What Is Drupal?
In many ways, Drupal is similar to WordPress, Shopify, Magento, or Joomla, These are all CMS platforms, but Drupal is even more. Drupal is a content management framework (CMF) which makes it even more powerful. Drupal can do all the things the other systems can and much more.
With the right development team, there is virtually no website challenge that Drupal can't handle.
We can make your website look and work the way you want it to.
What Makes Drupal Web Development So Great?
More than 1 million organizations trust Drupal to run their websites. It’s always a good idea to have trusted and reliable community at your side! Even the White House and NASA trust Drupal to run their websites!
At this point, you might be worried that Drupal isn't the right choice for you. After all, your organization isn't as big as the White House or NASA. But, that's what's so cool about Drupal. It's a great tool for smaller organizations too. Not convinced? See how we helped the San Francisco SPCA.
Cheeky Monkey has been reliable and creative partner, providing a platform for our website, which receives over 70,000 visitors a month. Since we’re in the business of saving lives, our website is literally a lifesaver. It’s nice to have a partner we can count on to be responsive and flexible.
Cynthia Kopec, Chief Operating Officer, San Francisco SPCA
Popular Drupal Features Include:
Responsive Design - Drupal content automatically resizes itself to fit any screen size, accommodating everything from mobile to tablet to large TV screens.
Scalability - Drupal makes it easy to integrate new sections and/or features as your business and audience needs change over time
Theme & Customized Design - Drupal allows you to customize your own theme or to choose between simple or complex themes to ensure your website creates a quality design experience
Easy-to-Use - Site administrators can add content, video, pictures and graphics without code. The popular WYSIWYG module (What You See is What You Get), makes it possible to create content in Drupal using standard word processing rules and formatting. With the changes to Drupal 8 (by-the-way, we made the Drupal Association’s Why Drupal 8 site and this site on Drupal 8, not that we’re bragging or anything) you (non tech person) can even make changes on your phone!
Unlimited Content Types - Drupal lets site owners create any content type, meaning that site owners can design their own style of presentation to create repeatable content models. Drupal content creators are limited only by their imaginations, not by the constraints of the CMS..
State-of-the-art Content Organization - Drupal doesn’t just help site owners post content, it helps them organize content. With top-notch search functions, tagging, filing, and storing content has never been easier.
Access Control - Drupal makes it possible for site owners to set up security procedures that grant different levels of access to different categories of user - such as a blog writer versus a developer
Drupal is open source, which means no-one owns it. Why is this so awesome? When one member of the Drupal community solves a problem, every other member of the Drupal community can access it and use the solution, without having to pay a licensing fee. Did we mention, there are over 2 million developers working on Drupal, which means that there are a lot of really smart Drupal developers putting their heads together to solve pesky problems. Oh, and just a heads up, because it can get confusing, even though you don’t have to pay a licensing fee to use Drupal, there are still costs involved. Sigh, we know, but we need to be able to pay for our bananas.
Drupal serves more than 100 languages, which means it speaks 96 more languages than all of us in the office put together.
Drupal is fast! Zoom, zoom. Oh wait, we’re not a Mazda commercial. It's just so fun to say.
We could go on and mention that Drupal is great at integrating with third party software, modules, and social media - you can even automate - but we think you get the idea! Drupal kicks some serious monkey butt! (Does that sound clever, or are we just getting corny now?)
Now that we've (hopefully) wow'ed you with the benefits of Drupal, tell us more about your project and what you need your website to do for you.
Somehow I got connected to Gene and I really liked his approach to the relationship. It was very informal. At the time, I was very frustrated with our Drupal experience, but Gene was able to explain things to me. I really appreciated that.
Vicky Hush, VP, Engagement & Strategic Partnerships, VolunteerMatch (Volunteer Organization)