Why Drupal is a Better Choice for Web Development

PHP is totally free of all types of licensing costs because it is an open source script code and this is the reason why from many years it is a preferred choice of developers. Drupal is written in PHP code and therefore developing a website using it saves clients money. Some of the amazingly designed websites like worldbakingday.com, treasure-explorer.nla.gov.au, virgin.com are made of Drupal open source software specifically created for content management system framework. 

It is a most beneficial decision presently to hire Drupal developer because Drupal web development enables businesses to address all the needs for stronger online presence including eCommerce sites, social networking sites, community web portals, personal websites and resource directories.

Presently Drupal is used by thousands of developers to develop custom websites for their clients. More than 2000 unique themes and twenty nine thousand modules are available in Drupal. Because of this reason Drupal became most liked and preferred choice of designers and developers. 

More than two percent of all the websites globally uses Drupal as a backend framework. This CMS gives facility to designers to create thousands of custom templates.

Difference between Drupal and Wordpress:

For beginners Wordpress is considered as a better choice. For small to mid-sized websites and blogs

Wordpress is a good platform. Joomla CMS is good only if you have technical or coding knowledge. In comparing Drupal with both these CMS, it is much harder but the most powerful among them. It is the easiest CMS for moderation and fits best for all type of websites.

Like other CMS platforms, Drupal is also an ideal platform to design customized eCommerce websites. The major reason behind it is that designers and developers can easily customize and develop different types of Drupal extensions for meeting client’s requirements.

Benefits of Drupal Web Development:

1.     Easy to manage-

After giving easy directions to the webmaster, the webmaster can have free reign in delivering the content the way they want.

2.     Open source-

Unlike other content management systems like, Wordpress and Joomla, Drupal is an open source platform and this provides the developers a benefit to modify the source code to create something totally new each time.

3.     Customization-

Drupal is easily customizable.  You can modify it to the extent. Other CMS provides a limited verity of templates and therefore websites becomes similar to others in any of the ways.

4.     Drupal community-

One major reason of using Drupal is a huge Drupal community.

Advantages of Drupal Community-

• ·         Huge developer community
• ·         Over 8000 modules are listed on Drupal.org.
• ·         600,000 plus more users are on Drupal.org
• ·         Almost 400,000 websites run on Drupal

5.     Mobile and SEO Friendly-

Because of its easy modification, Drupal is more SEO friendly than all their CMS platforms. With its extensive and strong flexibility, it can be easily adjusted for SEO.

 Drupal has been shown to be fully supportive of mobile usage. Mobile users view Drupal based websites in the same way Desktop users do. This has gone a long way in promoting the visibility of many websites which currently use Drupal.