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Excellent platform for complex sites
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal is a PHP CMS (platform) that is complex for developers but simple for content editors. I call it a platform because it is meant for much more than just basic CMS work. In addition to CMS's I've also built eCommerce sites, directories, portals, and web service providers with it. Drupal's real light shines in its contributed modules. With 30,000 modules that are contributed to the community you can find just about anything you want.
For developers, Drupal will have an excellent API that, once learned, will help them develop in ways that leverage many Drupal features that they would otherwise have to build. This allows for easy "hooking" into other functionality and maintaining very secure standards.
For businesses, it has a fairly mature set of capabilities once contributed modules are installed. Drupal has a handful of content workflow modules, calendaring, a versatile ACL that you can define, and a system setup that, if you're up to the task, lets you define much of it yourself.
For developers, Drupal will have an excellent API that, once learned, will help them develop in ways that leverage many Drupal features that they would otherwise have to build. This allows for easy "hooking" into other functionality and maintaining very secure standards.
For businesses, it has a fairly mature set of capabilities once contributed modules are installed. Drupal has a handful of content workflow modules, calendaring, a versatile ACL that you can define, and a system setup that, if you're up to the task, lets you define much of it yourself.
What do you dislike about the product?
Drupal is very complex. I tend to lean towards WordPress websites unless the site is very complex. If there are things like complex users systems/ACL I will switch to Drupal, however development time in Drupal just takes longer because it's more of a platform than a CMS which handles many things for you.
Drupal's upgrade path has drastic changes for major versions. Going from v6 to v7 was a total site rebuild, and moving to v8 is going to be the same. This often leads to some great new features, or fixing problems with past versions, but it really makes me reconsider the CMS each time this rebuild has to happen.
While the development community is strong, it pales in comparison to the direction that WordPress is going and the pace as well.
Drupal's upgrade path has drastic changes for major versions. Going from v6 to v7 was a total site rebuild, and moving to v8 is going to be the same. This often leads to some great new features, or fixing problems with past versions, but it really makes me reconsider the CMS each time this rebuild has to happen.
While the development community is strong, it pales in comparison to the direction that WordPress is going and the pace as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complex business websites, CMS's, portals, eCommerce systems. The benefits are a very specific and prescriptive API that allows for secure development.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a learning curve for developers. You are likely not going to use Drupal out of the box, so make sure you have the business plan & people in place to build and maintain the site while enabling employees to invest themselves in the community for continued development.
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Incredibly developer-friendly CMS with a huge community
What do you like best about the product?
Out ot the box you get a pretty strong protection over your personal data, caching system which speeds up te site approximately by 50% and several greate APIs to build pretty much everything to match your needs. Another thing I found extremely useful - is that you can override almost anything in your custom module using Drupal alter hooks system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Default permissions system lacks options and most of existing one provides too general options. For example, you can't set a separate permissions for user edit and user delete actions. Another weak side of a Drupal - is the admin panel interface. It's just not intuitive enough for a regular user (e.g. content manager). Nevertheless, the items mentioned above can be fixed using tons of contrib modules, which are always free to use. But on the other hand, beware of using to much contrib, as it can turn into a serious performance issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our complany uses Drupal for a various solutions from healthcare portals to crowdfounding platforms. Those are mostly a high load sites, which requires a good caching system + nice level of security and Drupal fits those needs just perfectly. Also, using CMS speeds up development, which is really important for all the clients.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Before you start using it, you need to spend some time to read best practicies of development and contrib usage, Don't just rely on stackoverfow or drupal.org, but watch different online courses or read books about drupal as well.
Drupal site administrator
What do you like best about the product?
Other people that don't know web coding can help update content so it's not entirely on me.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overly complicated UI and not intuitive to make layout changes or edit CSS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are other people that can assist managing the website. Translation of pages is also more manageable than a standard HTML site and server file structure.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try something different
Drupal, the best Open Source CMS for Enterprise Web Design and Development
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal presents no limitations to the type or scale of website and now web service that you would like to build. Other open source CMS options come with many assumptions built in as to how the tool will be used or deployed. Drupal is ultimately flexible as a web development platform. From simple personal and business websites to the largest enterprise or government deployment, Drupal can handle it now and adapt to the needs over time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Drupal does come with a rather intimidating learning curve. Novice website builders who have worked with other tools like Squarespace or WordPress will find some difficulty in getting Drupal up to speed as fast as these other tools. The interface and usability of Drupal can be made to match these other tools, but it usually takes some professional programming hours in order to hone it in to each use case and scenario.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At Commercial Progression; we design, develop, and deploy Drupal in many markets. Notably, Drupal has a very high adoption rate within higher education universities and colleges. We have designed, developed, and now support many websites for some of the largest universities in the world. Universities need an online presence that is always available and forever adapting to the needs of their students and prospective students. Drupal provides an environment for making incremental design improvements and functionality enhancements year over year in a phased approach. When working with enterprise clients, Drupal is exceptional at integrations with existing ERP, CRM, and other back office business systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Drupal is the most capable open source content management system available. With the power it presents to you, there is also a world wide community that backs and supports its continual development. Drupal 8 is just now hitting mainstream and is ready to move with the conversation beyond traditional website design. Now is the time to choose Drupal and grow with it into the next evolution of web services.
Very Difficult Setup
What do you like best about the product?
It's versatility (CMS, intranet, web-site)
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup of sql, php, apache seemed a bit cumbersome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing users with an all in one solution for CMS, workflow, and collaboration.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give yourself at least a week to setup and get comfortable with it. Once you are familiar it is an amazing product. Before you get familiar it can be a real headache.
Easy for a big company, but not always the most user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal is easy enough to be incorporated into a large company with multiple users of various IT backgrounds. The final products look professional and give a consistent look during a webpage overhaul.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the interfaces are not the most user-friendly and addressing customization issues sometimes had people with webpage design opting for direct coding.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We underwent a complete brand shift and update after many years. The final product was definitely a huge upgrade and it was great that the platform enabled a lot of collaboration.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Worth the learning curve in many situations, but helpful to have an experienced user/consultant to deal with company wide troubleshooting.
Drupal for the win!
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use for end users is my favorite function, but also the ability to customize so specifically to clients needs from small sites such as one page portfolios to large mutlimedia sites such as weather.com is awesome for any developer.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a steep learning curve for development on Drupal. It is not impossible, but it takes some time to learn how things work together and how to make sites function as needed. Once you have some experience under your belt, this problem is less and less. I do still have some frustrations daily when I can't figure out simple problems and I have been at it for over 6 years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work in higher education and Drupal has become a great way for our users, who are mostly administrative staff who might not always be familiar with working with websites. Being able to point and click to make edits within a browser has helped them keep sites up to date easily.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend doing research between different CMS's to find the one that will best suit individual needs. From my perspective Drupal is amazing for end-users. If will be an end-user, Drupal is great! If you are a freelance developer looking to make quick money, Drupal might not be your first option considering how easy some other CMS's may be to get spun up, however, if you are looking for long term higher income, Drupal is a specialization that is highly marketable.
Most flexible CMS
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of the product is amazing. Hooks and alters make it possible to achieve mostly anything we want to.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve is hard, so it is hard to find people to collaborate on a project or to train people to our development strategies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drupal allowed us to develop high-end website without recoding a complete CMS.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It might be hard to sell Drupal to your clients since Wordpress is well-known these days. But they will be grateful after a while.
Look elsewhere, unless you have no choice.
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal has been around for such a long time, finding a consultant or firm who specializes in Drupal is a breeze. On the other hand, the quality of the work will vary drastically. You really need technical person on hand to vet the coding practices of the team who will work on your Drupal site.
What do you dislike about the product?
The open-source and community-driven nature of the software means it is very difficult to debug. If you're working with Drupal yourself, expect to spend hours Googling and reading forum posts. Modules (like plugins) are often abandoned. Modules will frequently have obscure conflicts with certain versions of Drupal or other modules.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Some large organizations have no choice but to use Drupal. In those cases, it can be a great tool. It can be a robust, mature content management system, in the right hands. It allows site-builders and non-technical folks to manage their websites and do fairly complex operations (see: Views) without touching code.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Hire an experienced consultant or firm to work on your Drupal site. Make sure to get recommendations and look at the sites they've built before hiring them.
Come for the software, stay for the community
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal is an extremely modular system that can do whatever you need it to do (with enough modules and code). If your client needs "XYZ" - you can do it. Drupal is "free" as in puppies. You don't pay anything to get it, but you should expect to take it to the vet, buy food for it, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Because of what I like best (you can do anything you want), Drupal has historically been complicated to learn and write code for. The latest version, Drupal 8, is a step in the right direction, but still more complicated than other systems. As a result, Drupal websites tend to take longer to build and cost more money to implement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're able to engage more users in more ways. We can build complex systems for our endusers, while only exposing the to the parts of the website that they need to concern themselves with. Are you endusers laymen who don't know code? No problem! Give them a WYSIWYG interface and use the Paragraphs module or Panels to drag and drop various page elements into place.
Our clients tend to be very happy with their Drupal websites after a little training.
Our clients tend to be very happy with their Drupal websites after a little training.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
At the time of writing (May 31st, 2016) Drupal 8 is the best place to start. Not all contributed modules are ready for showtime, but the average website is going to do just fine starting in Drupal 8. The benefits (increased performance, user experience, security, etc) are worth the wait.
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