The Drupal Advantage:
- Drupal serves a very large developer community.
- It has a very extensive and active community supporting.
- Consists of a very established security team.
- Drupal is free, easy to use and flexible.
- Powerful Multilingual Capabilities.
- Great infrastructure exists around Drupal code base.
- In development from the last 7 years with 13 full releases that have added functionality.
- Is Portable.
- Resources such as Drupal plugins and Drupal codes are enormous.
- Can be administered from a browser.
- Is mobile browser friendly.
- With a simple FTP upload and a few short web based configurations questions, databases can be connected and a Drupal site can be up and running quite quickly.
- Drupal is very systematically documented.
- Search Engine Optimization friendly, using standard compliant HTML/CSS.
- URL's Can be customized and made SEO Friendly.
- Drupal Website can be simply integrated with Google Analytics without inserting codes.
Content Management System
- Drupal is a very cost effective Content Management System.
- It is Geared more for Configurability and customization.
- It is the most powerful and popular Opensource Content Management System.
- Once you learn some of the key tools within the Drupal universe, you can endlessly combine them to do all sorts of clever things you may never have imagined before.
- Drupal Design provides incredible flexibility while still allowing people who aren't programmers to create powerful websites.
- Cleanly separated into different layers that keep things organised and flexible.
- User registration and profiles can be formed and role based permission can be assigned.
- Using the Taxonomy system, content can be categorised.
Blogs,Newsletters & Forums:
- Keep track of recent and latest blog posts.
- Blog posts are all stored in a common pool with the sitemap/categories.
- The blog comes with a unique publishing system, and can be integrated with the rest of the website.
- Collect email addresses from site visitors, categorise the addresses based on preferences and target them using powerful list management and filtering capabilities.
- Newsletters can be sent as plain text or HTML and can be tested- bulk mailings are easily managed.
- The Drupal Forum offers powerful forum capability which is integrated within your website build as opposed to a stand alone forum platform.
Ecommerce:
Drupal + Ubercart = simple shopping cart.
- Configurable Product Catalogue.
- Flexible Product attribute system.
- Flexible Product creation.
- Single page checkout.
- Automatic account generation (Anonymous Checkout).
- Simple order processing.
- Simple order creation and editing.
- Activity logging.
- XML Export/Import.
- Seamlessly integrates with other parts.
- Basic product stock level tracking and notifications.
- Shipping quotes and fulfillment, including integration with UPS, FedEX & USPC.