In past few years, because of significant development in web space, it has been that there are various technology platforms are available for developing websites, software and web applications.
In today’s highly competitive market, for any business or company it has become very important to make presence in Internet space. So that, they can showcase their products, services and benefits to customers and further, expand the business across the globe. Developing & maintaining a website, software or application more often becomes a costly affair for companies and requires skilled manpower, resources & IT. Therefore, keeping the cost effective web development into consideration, companies are now using Drupal CMS Web Development that is widely used across the globe. It has various benefits over other traditional content management systems and easy to integrate.
Drupal is an open source content management system. It is written in PHP scripting language and works with MySQL database and Apache server. It offers wide range of options to choose XHTML & CSS based templates. It is compatible with all major operating systems such as Windows, MacOS etc.
There are various benefits of Drupal Web Development. It provides lot of flexibility for custom web development. For instance, the graphics and code are treated separately. The whole code is divided into two different portions – graphics/formatting and the code that helps to manage the whole coding and structure. Through Drupal module development service, a developer can do improvement in existing module and deploy modifications and changes to the source code repository according to business requirement. Therefore, it also helps to develop large size websites & applications. All kind of content (text, image, audio, video, flash etc.) is supported by Drupal. With the help of in-built version control a new versions of web pages could be saved each time they are modified or edited. Because of this one can revert to old version any time. It is very user friendly and does not need high technical and programming skills. For example, once the website is built you are not required to take help of developer for updating its content. With the help of integrated text editor WYSIWYG, one can easily update the content.
Drupal provides range of features that help in developing websites with search-friendly guidelines and seo activities. It provides customized and search engine optimized URLs i.e. whenever content is generated (known as node), a custom URL (also called URL alias) could be generated. SEO friendly and user friendly URLs can be automatically generated according to content. The meta titles are automatically generated from the node and there is full control on meta descriptions & keywords. However, for specific seo purpose meta titles could be modified by applying a defined title pattern in page title module.
It provides very powerful in-built taxonomy (also called categorization) system that helps in organizing and tagging the content with rich search friendly keywords. There are options for single, or multiple categories. Content construction kit (CCK) is very useful feature, through which without writing a new code we can customized the presentation of content and show in various ways.
It provides multiple user management through which, different user roles and access could be assigned to multiple users (such as admin, editor, anonymous visitor etc.) with controls. The API and web services can be integrated in easy manner with Drupal. Community based features such as bogs, polls, discussion forums, rating & review system, RSS feeds etc. could be easily integrated. Websites and Portals of different verticals, ranging from news & reference websites, corporate websites, social networking & community portals, E-commerce web applications could be developed with web 2.0 features and guidelines. One of the best benefit is Drupal is that there are variety of plug-ins and updated versions available on internet and those are available for free. There is dedicated open source Drupal community of developers who continuous work to upgrade the features & applications. Since it is an open source system, therefore there is no licensing fee associated with it to get the access.
In recent years, it has been that there is upward trend in web development particularly in content based websites & portals. And, this trend has brought demand of user friendly open source cms development. Offshore Drupal web development has shown tremendous growth over the years and therefore, has been chosen one of the most preferred options by developers & companies.
Thank you for helpful tips. It was easy to read, but I'd like to add that if your company needs to be updated try outsourcing software development services.
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