What is Drupal?
Drupal is a website building framework that allows users to control how their website will appear and interact with the visitor. Drupal is a powerful website content management software that is flexible enough for novice web publishing while offering enough customization to build some of the most in-depth and multi-faceted websites.
Building Your Website On Drupal. Pros And Cons;
Pros
Developer-Friendly
Drupal is flexible to make any changes to core functionality without making any changes to core.
Drupal is an open-source platform
Drupal is an open-source product; hence we have access to the code base. We can customize the application in the way we want.
Community
Having a backing system in any product is like having a protector every time you fall. Drupal is blessed with communities that offer a place to go when you need some tips, help, or tools in building your project. Drupal is well known for its collaborative development community.
Performance and Scalability
Drupal’s have a version called Pressflow, which is specifically designed for high-performance, enterprise-level Drupal sites. Pressflow is integrated with tools that can provide “scalability, availability, and testing enhancements.”
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is important. Getting your site indexed on the front page of major search engines like Google or Bing is still considered the most effective way of gaining massive amounts of traffic.
URLs of Drupal contain numbers and other meaningless query strings, which a search engine crawler would love to avoid at all costs. Although, it comes with a feature that fixes this issue.
Drupal has a Clean URLs option as part of the installation process. But if you forgot to set it up from the start, you can always enable Clean URLs even after installation.
Workflows… you can define particular roles and user-based editorial workflows, allowing for as many touchpoints and reviews between content creation and publication as you’ll require.
Drupal 8 gives you the ability to define different types of content that behave differently and are served up differently in other website areas.
Mobile-friendly themes
Multiple themes and skins for the users ‘ web pages and websites. There are thousands of contributed modules and themes freely available. Not only is Drupal open-source, but all the best modules and themes people have built are available for free as well!
Updates
Drupal is constantly being updated with security patches, new versions and works with the latest web technologies
Customizable
Drupal is great at managing any amount of content and any content. Its flexibility and customizability are two of its greatest strengths.
Drupal is designed around the concept of structured data. The data you put into it is reusable and can easily be referenced or accessed by other pages or exposed through APIs to other systems.
Cons
Ease Of Use
Drupal’s site hierarchies require substantial practice and creativity to execute correctly. Still, they can support very high versatility, several unusual cases, and a highly complex site,” using Drupal requires one to be comfortable in dealing with the technical side of things, which means you need to invest enough time to master the CMS.
Learning curve
Drupal does have a learning curve that requires time, especially if new to CMSs. Therefore, before starting, one should be prepared by making a site on their own time before offering Drupal as a service.
Unconfigured
Unless you’re the lucky 5% that can use more-or-less unmodified distributions, Drupal can be a nightmare until you configure it well.
Expensive
Skilled developers aren’t cheap. Or, if you do it in-house, you’ll probably spend significant time working on it. And, once you’ve got a Drupal site, the expense of starting over tends to give you a certain level of vendor lock-in. That said, if you need an enterprise-level site, it’s comparable.
Hard to learn
Drupal is hard to learn and offers a large learning curve as compared to WordPress and Joomla
Modularity
Because there are so many ways to do things, so many modules you can use, it takes a long time until you find the ones that work well with each other and suit your needs.
Famous Drupal Websites
1) The United States Government: https://www.whitehouse.gov/
2) MTV UK: https://www.mtv.co.uk/
3) University of Oxford: https://www.ox.ac.uk/
4) Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/
5) The British Government, https://www.gov.uk/
6) British Broadcasting Corporation: https://www.bbc.com/
7) The Economist: https://www.economist.com/
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