Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Drupal?


Drupal is a content management system (CMS) written in PHP. Drupal is an open source community with More than 550,000 users registered on Drupal.org and over 2000 people who have signed up for developer accounts.
 

The core of the Drupal framework provides a number of features including:

Blogs, books, comments, forums, and polls Access statistics and logging Advanced search functionalities Caching and feature throttling for improved performance under load Multi-level menu system Multi-user content creation and editing OpenID support RSS Feed and Feed Aggregator User profiles


Additional modules -
As of Aug 1,2009 there are reportedly over 4600 free modules written and contributed to by the Drupal community to make your site easier to find, easier to navigate, and more powerful at getting results (like more customers or followers!)

 

Themes -
There are literally thousands of free themes available for Drupal and more available for a price. You can also have a custom theme designed just for you by me or another Drupal developer for a reasonable price.
 

Who uses drupal?

 

There are small businesses and personal websites that use drupal but there are also multinational corporations using it. Some of the more famous sites using drupal are:

 

  • Nike
  • Universal Music
  • Warner Bros
  • Yahoo! Research
  • Adobe
  • Nasa
  • Ubutnu
  • DivX Labs
  • Moby
  • 20th Century Fox Searchlight
  • Warner Bros Recordings
  • AOL Developer Network
  • Harvard’s Science and Engineering department
  • Yahoo! Research

 

Besides the software what do I get with Drupal?

 

 

As a Drupal user you can have:

 

 

  • Global access to your site and content.
  • Unlimited user access and permission levels so that visitors and other users can only see what you want them to see.
  • And much, much more...

 

 

And as a Drupal.org user you gain unlimited access to:

 

 

  • The best work of thousands of developers, programmers, and designers - at little or no cost!
  • A support community of top-flight programmers willing and eager to offer insights and advice.
  • Thousands of design templates

 

 

Can I use Drupal to make my own site or do I need a developer like you?


Yes, you could build your own website with Drupal and it may turn out pretty good if you have previous experience with html, CSS and maybe a little PHP. Most people consider Drupal to have a pretty steep learning curve so it definately not for the faint of heart. And expertise and experience may still be required to get your site to do all of the wonderful things that you imagine it to do.



The real question you have to ask yourself is "What is my time worth?" If it is going to take you a few months to learn the basics of Drupal, how to upload your site to a server, and how to add and modify new modules, is your time being well spent? Or should you just focus on your real strengths such as running your business or developing the content that will be needed for your website.


Just remember, you didn't decide you needed a website so that you could become a web development geek (like me). You needed a website because you wanted to sell, blog, or get social.
 

Can you help me with WordPress or Joomla?

 

Although our preference is Drupal, we can create a custom theme for your Joomla or WordPress site.