Benefits of Developing a Site in Drupal CMS

Drupal is the second most extensively used PHP CMS next to Wordpress. It inherits all usual attributes from PHP and blends its own innovation to provide optimal web development solutions. Before you hire a Drupal developer, make sure he has his basics of the generic advantages of using Drupal framework, clear. Some significant elevations provided by using 

Drupal for website development are:

It is flexible

Drupal offers immense flexibility to developers as well as designers. Like other CMS, it does not restrict itself to narrow frameworks and custom coding. Its feature of a Taxonomy module allows for multiple levels and ability to tag, organize and categorize complex content. Moreover with Drupal you can add many interesting features like user blogs, OpenID, forums, profiles, etc.

Free

Like most PHP Content Management Systems, Drupal comes free of cost. Right from downloading, implementation and to post go live services, everything either comes free or at a very cheap price. It has no hidden charges unlike other frameworks, some of whom may even charge an annual fee. The official assurance of a Drupal site has a life of 3-6 years, however, it stays there for much longer.

SEO friendly

Once your website is live; search engine optimization (SEO) plays an integral part of your business’s online marketing strategy. Drupal, created as a community platform, was inherently designed to be SEO friendly. Some Drupal SEO Modules include

Page Title

It helps to ameliorate the title.

Related Content

While Content and SEO go hand in hand, content writers and SEO analysts don’t. Drupal provides a smart medium to complement the ideas of both by suggesting relevant content ideas to satisfy the search engine visibility needs of the entire website as a whole.

Path auto

It automatically generates URLs for numerous nodes and allows you to control the pattern by which URLS can be displayed.

Redirects: Drupal also allow you to easily redirect a URL from one path to another in an efficient way.

Fast development

Drupal is highly cost effective with the faster development it offers. Developers, designers and testers all can sync with the phase comfortably, eliminating all nuisances of the entire web development cycle.

Mobile friendly

Drupal websites are immensely handheld friendly. That is, they won’t take much time to load and display content just like other websites confuse themselves by not showing up in the desired time frame on mobile gadgets. It is obvious that the client, for whom you work, would be using a Smartphone. Drupal websites develop a stunning look on iPads, phones and whatever gadget you can think off. They adjust the content by themselves accordingly to the screen size and resolution.

Clients

When you hire Drupal developer, it’s wise and fair enough to probe with a lot of technical questions to extract out the best from the candidate. However, to resolve a tie situation amongst two equally good candidates, ask them about the world’s best and popular sites built on the Drupal CMS. And if you need some insights on some of the popular developments Drupal boasts about, here is a list of the most popular websites built on Drupal CMS.

·         The White House

·         the Onion

·         Wake Forest University

·         Energy.gov

·         FedEx

·         ING

·         9/11 Memorial.org

·         Grammy