June 19, 2013
Boyle Software's expertise in designing and implementing Drupal-based websites makes us the clear and logical choice for your next Drupal project.
Drupal is a free, open-source software package that serves as the content management system (CMS) or content management framework (CMF) for a large number of websites around the globe, including feature-rich sites like The White House, Warner Brothers Records and The Economist, as well as internal corporate sites like AOL's intranet.
Drupal's ease of use and flexibility make it the perfect platform for a wide variety of applications. As a CMS, Drupal has a simple web-based user interface that can be implemented with permissions allowing only certain users access to modifying specific content. The content itself - including text and various multimedia elements like podcasts, video and slideshows - can be easily created, managed and edited through the clean, clear UI. For site designers, multiple design "themes" can be utilized to give different layouts to different sections of a site. Drupal also integrates intelligent search engine optimization (SEO) into a site's pages as well as creating a site map that is sent to major search engines on a regular basis.
Certainly one of the most crucial and vital aspects of Drupal is the energetic community that it has spawned. Since open-source is its essence, developers from around the world can get involved and creatively extend core Drupal with code "modules." Currently there are almost 10,000 Drupal modules that do things like greatly simplify and streamline the addition of website features, such as e-commerce shopping carts and CAPTCHA functionality. Community-generated modules can also assist in delivering your content to myriad mobile devices. And Drupal's passionate community of coders continues to extend the platform daily.
"I value Drupal highly because of its community," says Boyle Software VP of Front-End Development Uwe Kristen, "There is a module for everything I can think of and if I run into any issues Drupal's community most likely already has a solution."
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites. First introduced in 2001, Drupal's latest version - Drupal 7 - was released this past January.
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