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July 19, 2019
Drupal, the CMS for large, data-rich websites
Drupal has been selected as the CMS for our new city website. It was time to replace the custom, home-grown CMS we've been using for almost 20 years, and we wanted something that could power a large, enterprise-wide website. We wanted something with a large user base and healthy ecosystem so that we could ensure that the software will be supported and maintained for years to come. Drupal fit the bill as one of the most popular open-source content management systems that is used by over a million websites, many of them government websites like ours.
- Drupal has a large support community. Many businesses and organizations have adopted it, and it has a large developer base, so it's likely to be around for a long time.
- Drupal is designed around the concept of structured data so that the data you put into it is reusable and can easily be referenced or accessed by other pages, or exposed through APIs to other systems.
- Drupal is well suited for building large, complex websites.
- Drupal has a steep learning curve due to its flexibility and complexity. Because it's so flexible and customizable, sometimes it's daunting trying to figure out the best way to do something.
- Some aspects of the system don't receive the support and attention they need, particularly contributed modules. It can take months (or years) for bugs to get resolved, or for new features to be developed. Many of the contributed modules are poorly supported. It's common to find modules that still haven't been migrated to the latest version of Drupal, even though it's been out for over 2 years. It's also common to discover a bug, only to find out that a patch was already submitted to fix that bug months ago, but hasn't been merged into the module yet.
- Upgrading to new versions of Drupal core can sometimes be painful and challenging, depending on how you've customized it or what modules you've enabled.
- Sometimes it's difficult to figure out how to customize a particular aspect of the system because you have to work within the framework it provides.
October 24, 2019
Unified, Robust and Responsive CMS/LCMS!
Drupal is used as a LCMS, and I have implemented the solution to many clients. Drupal is used by the banking and life science industries. The client will normally have an LMS and they want to build a unified, dynamic and scalable framework on top of it. Normally we build a Drupal portal as a front-end layer and integrate with LMS and other learning related applications. It becomes a landing page for the users/learners and from here the users can access LMS, Calendar, Analytics, Social media, video contents such as YouTube, open learning portals such as MOOC. It is used by the entire organization, sometimes includes external stakeholders as well.
- Drupal is a open source product, hence we have the access to the code base. We can customize the application in the way we want.
- Drupal's ctools suite which has plugins, contents, and caches are the set of APIs supports the developers to build the application in a more customized way.
- Custom dynamic and responsive themes.
- Integration compatibility with all third-party applications.
- Scalability - tested with more than 50,000 concurrent users.
- It's not an LMS by the way, hence cannot track learning activities. It always has a dependency of integrating with any LMS. However, they have Opigno LMS within Drupal. Opigno LMS features should be improved.
- Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 have vast differences from the development perspective. The product updates should be gradually improved.
- Drupal has no compatibility with SCORM/AICC/TinCan contents. Since this is a CMS, it would be great if we can launch these eLearning contents from Drupal application without having any additional plugins/integrations
December 26, 2018
Do you deploy a lot of content daily? Do you have strong technical resources? Drupal 8 might be a fit!
My company was recently hired to build out a fully integrated digital ecosystem for a large endurance brand; inclusive of a CMS, E-commerce Platform, Data warehousing, and a data normalization engine to tie it all together. For this, we selected Drupal 8, Magento, and AWS (Redshift and Lambdas).
Being a global brand, Drupal 8 was the CMS (built by developers for developers) that provided the most extensible launchpad with localization and language support, as well as great workflow and collaboration tools for content creators.
Drupal 8 is utilized by brand ambassadors to submit content for review, internal editors to review content, race directors to manage events and venues, as well as marketers to post landing pages. It ensures consistent branding across the board.
Being a global brand, Drupal 8 was the CMS (built by developers for developers) that provided the most extensible launchpad with localization and language support, as well as great workflow and collaboration tools for content creators.
Drupal 8 is utilized by brand ambassadors to submit content for review, internal editors to review content, race directors to manage events and venues, as well as marketers to post landing pages. It ensures consistent branding across the board.
- Content Types... these are amazing. Whereas a more simplistic CMS like WordPress will basically allow you to make posts and build pages, Drupal 8 gives you the ability to define different types of content that behave differently, and are served up differently in different areas of the website.
- Extensibility... it scales, ohhhh does it scale. They've really figured out server-side caching, and it makes all the difference. Once a page has been cached, it's available instantly to all users worldwide; and when coupled with AWS, global redundancy and localization mean that no matter where you're accessing the site, it always loads fast and crisp.
- Workflows... you have the ability to define very specific roles and/or user-based editorial workflows, allowing for as many touchpoints and reviews between content creation and publication as you'll require.
- This is NOT the most intuitive CMS. You really need to take the time to understand how Drupal 8 works--how content is served up--if you're going to administer a site. Whereas WordPress is very "flat" and simple, Drupal 8 is much more dynamic. You utilize Views to access your content/data and "blocks" to build out beautiful landing pages (similar to widgets in WordPress). I had to prepare a TON of documentation for the client--so many user guides.
- It is not very friendly to engineers. It probably took 3 to 4 times longer to build out a Drupal 8 site as opposed to had we built it as a static site with perhaps a WordPress back-end (though you would have required multiple WordPress instances to manage localization and other things, which is what we were replacing).
- It seems that the Drupal 8 consortium (or whatever) is trying to push the ball forward a little too far, rather than consistently maintaining a solid foundation. There were many times when my engineers had to build entirely custom modules to compensate for known bugs in Drupal 8. I have good engineers and we still lost weeks to deploy a workaround. Your organization might not be so lucky as to have an appropriate caliber of engineers, though I hope it is!
December 21, 2018
Drupal - Great Open Source CMS
We use Drupal for both commercial websites and also use it on intranets that will have no access to the internet. Drupal is great because you can integrate it with other resources, like single-sign-on so users can interact with the system logging in from LDAP for example.There is also a great variety of templates you can choose from, making this tool even awesome!
- Great templating, there's a wide variety of free and commercial ones
- Great formatting, be it with fonts or images
- Great support, specially when it comes to security
- We could use more templates
- Easier installations
- Easier ways to upgrade
December 21, 2018
Possibly the most powerful and flexible CMS
We are a marketing and web development company and creating Drupal sites is one of our specialties. We use it internally for several things, but also for most of our clients' projects when their needs fit the solution. It allows us to build sites ranging from small blogs or brochure sites all the way up to huge, scalable, custom e-commerce sites utilizing the same set of tools built by one of the best communities online.
- Drupal is great at managing any amount of content, and any type of content. Its flexibility and customizability are two of its greatest strengths.
- Drupal isn't just a CMS, Drupal lets you build the CMS that website editors will be using. Its backend customization and admin features are awesome and are being expanded by the community all the time.
- There are thousands of contributed modules and themes freely available. Not only is Drupal open source, but all the best modules and themes people have built are available for free as well!
- Drupal's community is big, prolific, and welcoming. Not only can you use other's community contributions, but the community is always happy to help others building their own Drupal sites or custom modules and themes for the rest of the community. If you ever get stuck, the forums or Drupal Slack are incredible resources for assistance.
- Drupal's admin side is very powerful and flexible, but it's a little bit harder to wrap one's mind around. If a customer is familiar with using a basic WordPress site, showing them the full Drupal back-end might be overwhelming and confusing at first. Luckily you can easily limit and customize the admin pages that each role sees.
- Drupal is huge and complex. Doing simple things is generally simple, but more advanced capabilities of Drupal have a higher learning curve (as can be expected). You can build a Drupal site quickly, but don't expect to build your dream site with loads of custom features in a week.
- Ready-made themes are more sparse than something like WordPress. If you're most interested in simply plugging an existing theme in and using it, you won't find as many professional-looking themes out of the box. There are some, but with Drupal, the best results are usually achieved by finding a good base theme and creating your own child theme based off of it.
March 14, 2019
Trusted large scale content management system
My company's website is built using Drupal. It is fast, scalable and easy to understand with just basic web knowledge. To be clear - I am not a developer - but work on the frontend building pages, adding events and modules. When I was in the job market - I did notice that a lot of large scale companies use Drupal.
- Producing pages - I can start and complete a new page in Drupal in just a few minutes. It is really easy to understand and very straight forward.
- Updates - Drupal is constantly being updated with security patches, new versions and works with most new web technologies
- Cross Browser friendly
- Organization leaves a little to be desired. In the version that we are using ( 7 ) - sometimes when you remove an asset, it is hard to see if there are any other versions of the assets on different pages.
- The asset library can be a little more organized. Finding something that you uploaded can be difficult to locate if you do not know where it was originally posted.
January 01, 2019
Drupal: Excellent CMS for Corporate use
Drupal is the primary platform that all of our customer's company websites are built on. We build landing pages, customer portals, and our brochure style pages on Drupal.
- Responsive web design
- Fast loading page speeds
- SEO
- Slow learning curve
- Could improve CMS experience
December 22, 2018
Drupal as a Solution for Clients
I am, in addition to my organization title, a web developer. After many years of coding, I decided to look into CMSs as this allowed clients to access their sites and update content as needed. Some clients find that the use of Drupal is the solution to simplifying the updating process. Drupal is one CMS that allows the administrator to assign pages or content areas to specific personnel. This again is the solution to the problem of multiple people updating. Depending on the need, Drupal offers flexibility. As a full organization, departments can be given administrative or editor access and avoid even seeing other departments' pages. In my opinion, this is the best solution, especially for the price.
- Very flexible CMS (Content Management System)
- Coding is not required; however, could be useful
- Offers various levels of control
- Themes for layout and color schemes are available at reasonable prices
- Drupal does have a learning curve that requires time, especially if new to CMSs. Therefore, before starting one should be prepared by making a site on their own time prior to offering Drupal as a service.
- Documentation is lengthy but thorough. Some of this gets complicated and the community of users is not as large as some others, such as WordPress or HTML, JS, JQuery, CSS etc.
- The languages used to develop Drupal are a variety and they are multiple. Therefore, if the developer would like to use it and tweak the code, they must know a number of web programming languages.
December 21, 2018
Drupal works at scale, and is free.
Drupal is being used across the whole KU organization. It's the primary content management system, and pages are created for departments, units, and organizations on campus. It provides a supported solution for users to manage their own content, for web developers to help optimize and for marketing to track usage. Content is also exported in blocks to feed other systems with information, including important academic dates.
- Managing content blocks. Drupal is very effective at providing a standard way to move content across systems.
- User management of content. Users have complete control over their spaces. It requires some training, but users can update content and create alerts without the need for a web developer.
- Overall design. Drupal looks pretty good, and provides a good structure for simple text, graphics, and links.
- Drupal is not intended for visualizations or other interactive content - this is an emerging field that could be better.
- While mobile responsive, I wouldn't call Drupal the most modern design. It's functional, but not beautiful.
- Users have control over their content, but it can be difficult to figure out how to do what you are trying to do.
December 17, 2018
Drupal Can Be Great If You Know How To Use It
Drupal has powered our company website for multiple iterations over the passed 10 years. We have also used it in client projects during that time. What we have liked about it is the granular control it allows over your website out of the box.
- Easily create custom content types which can be used and reused in multiple views around a website.
- Granular control of websites on a per page basis.
- Allows tiered user access to support users having different access to content and administration capabilities.
- Steep learning curve
- Resource intensive
- Making a development mistake can result in hours of debugging trying to figure out what went wrong.
December 11, 2018
Drupal is a good, moderately powerful CMS that isn't too confusing
Drupal is used as the content management system for our organization's intranet. The intranet has hundreds of pages as well as image and document storage capabilities. It also has a number of custom integrations built by the organization's information technology department that have been integrated into the Drupal system for use. Users across the organization access Drupal.
- It has a document repository that makes it easy to store necessary documents
- It has an image repository where users can store images
- it has the ability to have many users across the organization
- it can be a bit buggy at times
- it's not the most intuitive user experience
- while it's nice there is a photo repository, the folder structure could be formatted a bit better
December 11, 2018
Drupal is a powerful but complicated CMS
I used Drupal in a previous organization to build websites for clients. Drupal was our primary CMS, and we used it to build about 12 websites per year. I currently use Drupal to build a few of my personal websites, as well as websites for friends. I also use Drupal to build and maintain a website for an organization that I am a part of.
- Very powerful out of the box
- Highly customizable
- Secure
- Good community
- Steep learning curve
- Resource intensive
- Custom coding and templates can be difficult
- Painfully slow for features and fixes to be added to Drupal core
March 29, 2019
Customizable, scalable and professional content manager.
Drupal is an excellent content manager since it handles large volumes of users and content. We use it in our web system and in the internal intranet. It allows us to create profiles of the users with details and excellent personalization. Besides the personalization, Drupal gives us the facility to add what we need through modules.
- Is easy to install and has a very professional and clean interface.
- Has a lot of free and paid add-ons for anything you can think of. You can also design your own because there is enough documentation for that.
- Drupal is excellent for websites with a lot of content, also where you require high personalization of the permissions and details of the users.
- Has excellent options to implement your websites in different languages.
- As the new versions evolve, they become incompatible with older complements.
- For those who start, the learning curve is steep.
January 08, 2019
Drupal has many advantages for small and large businesses
We use Drupal to create our business website. We were able to customize it to fit our needs and to create a way to showcase our work to clients, build a client base, and connect with clients and keep them up to date. It addressed our security needs as well as our ability to see websites scaled onto smaller platforms.
- Customizable to fit our needs.
- Scalability.
- Cross-device seamless content.
- Loading time for heavy content could be slightly improved.
January 05, 2019
Drupal for multipurpose websitex
Drupal is a well developed, well-known Content Management system, capable of handling a large volume of visitors, and can create a number of content pages. It can be used as a simple blog, can make interactive business sites, and can create an e-commerce site too. Can easily be customizable to meet one's needs. The theme system is another of the important features, as you can use the large number of free templates available if you do not want to build from scratch.
- Handling a large number of users easily.
- Can get easy themes, modules, as it is available for free too.
- Can create large sites, dynamic blogs, e-commerce, interactive sites.
- Can be difficult to deal with for a non-technical person.
December 12, 2018
QA Analyst's Review of Drupal
The company I work for builds websites for higher education institutions. We use Drupal and another platform. We have plans to move away from the other platform and have all of our websites on Drupal. Drupal is easy to use, versatile, secure, and overall a great product. We have a wide variety of departments which use Drupal including our Developers, QA team, Content team, and UX team.
- Customization.
- Wide variety of add-on features/functionality.
- Easy to learn and use.
- While easy to use, you do have to have some development skills.
- Installing needs to be done by someone with technical skills.
- Upgrading can be troublesome.
September 11, 2018
Drupal is the 777 of CMS'
Drupal is used to manage our primary website. It is managed by the Marketing department, without any involvement from the IT department. It serves as a quick, effective and relatively inexpensive way to manage over a thousand pages of content. In addition, the direction towards API first has significant savings, allowing us to build a solution that integrates many technologies into one interface for content editors.
- Content Management
- Document and Media Management
- SEO Management
- API Integration
- Easy to manage updates
- User management
- Can be extremely difficult to ramp up to production
- If built poorly, nearly impossible to fix without a full rebuild
- Drupal core updates can be a pain in the butt.
September 27, 2018
Drupal Does What Is Intended
My company needed a new website that was responsive, allowed for an easy to manage content management system, and flexibility/scalability. Due to Drupal being open source and having the ability to create templates that are customized - it solved many of our business problems. Some of those problems being; dynamic response, loading forms, creating custom landing pages.
- Content storage
- Easy backend navigation
- Ability to add users with ease
- WYSIWYG
- Rich Text Editor
- Containers
September 28, 2018
Drupal: A Definite Recommend!
Drupal is the main development platform that we use at my company. We currently use versions 7 and 8. We are in the process of migrating all version 7 instances to version 8. We use Drupal to house and promote all of our various assets, promote events, track registrations via integration. Drupal is used by various departments within my organization but is run by one main group whereas all of the others are supporting it. Drupal is used to both promote our products as well as serve as a singular housing unit for all resources, forms, event information, and company information.
- Drupal integrates very well with all of our technology, ie. Salesforce, Marketo, etc.
- Drupal's interface allows us to easily update and push out new material with ease.
- Drupal is a very well known technology that has made it easy for us to find talent that is familiar with it.
- There are certain limitations in the amount of information that can be passed from Drupal to Salesforce, specifically in areas of how long viewers are on a particular page.
- Drupal uses up a ton of memory space, due to how large our sites are, it has been costly to add in the required hardware.
March 03, 2018
Drupal: Titan of Open Source
The global education services division is driven by websites designed to market and recruit online degree programs for prospective students and consumers. 95 percent of those websites are built with Drupal. Through these websites we gather information vital to the company's business strategies.
- Drupal is an open source CMS and has a vibrant community supporting it.
- Drupal's core package offers a great out-of-box product that can easily be modified to meet any business need.
- The community dedication to contrib modules is second to none. There's a module for just about everything you could imagine, want, or need on a website.
- Excellent administrative framework and user-based interface allows for custom role creation and specific access levels based on credentials.
- Being open source, there isn't a company solely dedicated to it, which can sometimes represent challenges for bugs associated with specific modules.
- Frequent releases require upgrading to maintain support for active components.
- Flexibility and options are vast, but not necessarily intuitive for the non-experienced or web novices.
- Requires a developer.
December 13, 2017
If you love happy, giddy developers...
Drupal hosts our main public website, which has hundreds of thousands of users visit it monthly. It is being used by the marketing department and we chose it for its flexibility and ease of use. We were stuck with an old CMS that was rigid and a pain to work with. Our developers hated it and it prevented us from being nimble. Drupal solves those problems for us.
- Drupal separates data from presentation, which is very important when you are trying to build a website. It is great at letting the back end developers focus on data structure and the front end focus on presentation.
- You can change anything you need to, or find someone who already has. Since its open source you can find a developer who can help you with a problem.
- Its been around for a long time and there are many mods that have been created to solve many problems.
- It can be daunting to a developer who has no experience with Drupal at first. There is a learning curve and it may not be for everyone.
- Because there are so many choices for mods and add-ons its hard to pick which ones are the best.
- There are not as many people with Drupal 8 experience out there even though its been over a year since its release.
December 12, 2017
Drupal - flexible CMS with a huge community behind it
We used Drupal to create our own custom learning management system for the company, which helped us digitally distribute our software packages and limit the amount of time users had access to them, thus making them subscription products, which was something we were never able to do before. Customers loved the move because it did away with having to use a DVD disc in their computer and remember to bring it with them when they needed their kids to do their homework. We also made a secure online space for kids under the age of 13 to interact with their teachers on homework and class discussions, thus adding another digital layer of interface between teachers and kids for better communication.
- User management was great in Drupal, we were able to create custom roles for users and assign them special permissions based on their roles.
- Customization of Drupal was a real strength, we were able to customer our site to look exactly the way we wanted and mocked up in our early brainstorming sessions. There is a vast array of add-ons available to Drupal for themes and customization that anyone can take advantage of.
- Add-on modules were the real strength of drupal, because anyone in the world could develop and offer new add-on functionality for drupal and those developers could share it with the whole drupal community and help each other advance the add-on module together.
- The community is really the best part of Drupal, there is a huge pool of developers all contributing and helping each other to advance Drupal with new features and better security all the time.
- The one thing that Drupal could improve on are the upgrade paths for updating the system between each major release of the software, when drupal moved from version 7 to version 8, most people could not do the upgrade for many months, while they waited on the add-on modules they used to be updated to work with version 8 as well. I think involving the module developers earlier on, on new major update releases could help fix this.
- Add-on modules can sometimes be slow to update or fix problems because some developers aren't that active in updating their add-on modules
- Some module developers build modules that only serve their own immediate need and are not willing to update or advance their modules to expand its functionality to serve others similar needs. Other developers are usually offered to take over and customize the project for their own needs but sometimes the documentation for existing modules can be lacking, depending on the developer.
February 05, 2018
Graphic Designer and Web Designer's Drupal Review
Our college and entire university have been using Drupal to create web pages. It provides an easy web working environment for both web professionals and non-professional users. For the professional users, you can work directly in a code mode and write your own CSS style. For the non-professional users, you can use the default functions and use it as simply as you are using a Word application. Drupal also gives different users different roles. You can assign a less experienced user a lower role, he/she can draft the initial page and wait for an experienced user to approve and publish the page.
- Work fine for both code writers and non-experienced web content creators
- Easy to start with
- Easy to manage different users
- WYSIWYG editor
March 07, 2017
DSMM Guru
The program that I manage within the school of medicine uses Drupal to maintain our individual website. I manage and maintain all edits, updates, and links on our web page. We use our webpage to provide knowledge to potential students who are interested in participating in our 9-month training program.
- Easy access and more often than not, our student's are able to navigate through our webpage and find exactly what information they need.
- Drupal Customer Service agents are extremely helpful, polite and knowledgeable.
- Direct communication on edits/updates to software to the customer (myself, etc.) rather than our IT department that doesn't always relay information.
Drupal is an integral tool in every aspect of our business. Commercial Progression has been developing Drupal powered websites for a variety of industries since 2007. We love being a contributing member of the supportive and vast opensource community that has come together to build this amazing content management system. Of course we leverage Drupal to manage our front facing business websites, but it is also powerful enough to integrate with our CRM and build back office business management tools for ERP systems. Drupal excels at delivering enterprise grade integrations with large organizations that have a long range technology roadmap. Being able to scale with the complexity of any web development project makes Drupal the ideal tool for handling the most challenging web application projects.
- The Drupal core ships with a granular, field level content construction toolset. The very popular views module is now part of the core Drupal CMS and enables the creation of complex content types, it's way more than a blogging tool.
- Drupal is especially adept at integration with enterprise grade CRM and ERP systems. Because all of the data in Drupal is naturally available for mapping at the field level, there is a ready environment for connecting to restful API systems.
- Drupal scales exceptionally well with multisite and multiuser environments. Large universities can standardize on a common codebase of Drupal and then roll it out to the entire campus. Individual colleges can customize their themes and content but do not need to worry about figuring out their own module stack.
- Drupal is complex, it will take time and expertise to shape it into the tool you need it to be for your use case. WordPress can be installed and is ready to go for blogging out-of-the-box, but Drupal will need more setup up front to build out the functionality needed.
- Finding strong Drupal expertise can be challenging for companies. Although the developer community is over a million strong, there are still few companies that truly have an expert Drupal developer on staff.
- Drupal can be overkill for small websites with just a few pages or limited functionality. Many new flat file responsive tools can do well to build a basic brochure site without the overhead of a CMS like Drupal.
- Security is an ongoing struggle for all users of opensource CMS solutions. If you choose Drupal for your website, you will need a plan for security updates to ensure you are one step ahead of the hackers.
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About Drupal
Drupal is a free and open source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features common to content management systems. These include a dashboard with a menu management system, RSS feeds, page layout customization and themes to aid this, and system administration tools. Drupal offers access statistics, more advanced search features, caching and feature throttling (to improve performance if needed), descriptive URLs, multiple users with controllable privileges, access control and restrictions, and workflow tools (triggers). There are over 30,000 addons or modules to expand Drupal's functionality.
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