Services Drupal Description


Administrator:
Drupal comes with great options for new user accounts and user permissions. Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with fine-grained permissions allowing users to view and create only what the administrator permits. Drupal’s administration is separated into five main sections: Content, Appearance, People, Structure, and Configuration. Additional modules can be installed to expand these sections with more settings. You can easily administer basic site configuration settings.

Sites Built with Drupal:



When you ask whether you should use Drupal OR write everything from scratch, I'd definitely go for Drupal. What makes Drupal shine for me is its versatility in defining "atomic" elements of any website: user profiles ("registered", "entitled-to-edit-agenda-items", "can-only-read-stuff-older-than-a-week", etc. etc.), content types ("agenda-item", "address-card", "big-article", etc.), and above all: its taxonomy, i.e. an extremely flexible system to organize any "semantic content" you want to throw in your site. Having these "atomic building blocks" at your disposal, Really feels like a biiiiig relief. It's simply Fun to play around with them.

Sure, you can program all this yourself. But you'd be in for many, many months, and then still you'd probably have only a fairly shaky thing.

To give you an idea of the complexity of Drupal: at this moment, with the core and some 10 additional modules installed, you could build a full intreactive dynamic website.

Drupal deals with about 100 database tables, one hundred. Just getting those to work nicely and reliably together would give you many months of headache.

Is PHP knowledge superfluous when you use Drupal? Oh no, I would even say it's mandatory or at least strongly advisable. There are so many things to tweak, so many places where you could add your own few lines of PHP. Don't think that it is either Drupal or PHP: you'll make use of both.

The bottom line is that learning how to fine-tune Drupal would definitely be far more profitable than writing everything from scratch, price matters!

The confidence in the power of Drupal as an enterprise-class application framework by many fortune 500 companies confirms that the flexibility of Drupal as a platform, combined with solid design and development resources, creates the possibility for rich user experiences and large-scale web solutions. This is solid proof that these companies can combine the robust flexibility of the Drupal platform, with the world class skills of dedicated designers and developers from the Drupal community, to build rich content work flows and social networking features into a powerful web tool sets to serve and support massive customer bases globally while eliminating licensing and residual costs from competing proprietary solutions.