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Flexible and powerful web development tool
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal is a really robust web development platform with lots of tools. I like that Drupal propose a lot of different modules like video, membership, commerce. Thanks to them you may add new features to your website. What is important, each module has submodules, which help to add only those blocks which you need. The best thing is that you may combine different functions from different modules.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't quite like that the Drupal admin panel has an older looking design. Everything is too sharp and without much color. When we started using it, Drupal did not seem to be very intuitive, but I got used to it quickly. I also dislike that there are no simple visual builders. It still takes a bit of time to create a new layout.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Drupal platform has given me a good balance between a complex and simple web development platform. Though there are many modules and features that allow me to create robust and well-structured websites simply, it also leaves much room for coding and more advanced development and rich website design and functionality. The available templates also make starting on designs much easier.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend Drupal to those that are willing to do some learning and having an interest in web design beyond simple DIY tools. It is a reliable and flexible platform. The level of security is pretty high. The most important thing is that Drupal will help you to create a professional website without overly complicated steps, unless you want to introduce more advanced custom features.
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Drupal Help Build An Engaged Community
What do you like best about the product?
For some things, Drupal is incredibly fast and simple to use. I can post an event to our website, or make an edit in minutes. The resulting website is also incredibly polished and professional looking. It is also useful as a very large institution incorporate multiple independent entities that are quite large in and of themselves, to be able to display a simultaneously unified and diversified appearance between their individual sites, but also to share a common system with common features, to allow for instances of collaboration.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you come in to a website that has been created by someone else, or worse by several individuals over the course of years, it can be next to impossible to find some things. There are multiple ways to create a page, and depending upon which method they used, that particular section of text that you want to edit could be buried in any number of locations. Some of these locations are in and of themselves buried within a labyrinthine interface. Some pieces of content actually exist and must be edited in multiple locations. We struggle in particular with a lack of archiving ability on certain features, so we must leave it on the site indefinitely or delete it and lose the record. Drupal's interface, and text editor in particular, is also limited in terms of content styling - I had to use html just to change the font color of a phrase. We actually needed to employ third party development assistance just to add an additional social media icon - this was not something our communications team was able to use the admin interface alone to add. Finally, Drupal struggles with a lot of different file formats, as far as uploading is concerned.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We rely on our website to get our work out to new audiences, and keep our current audiences engaged in what we do. Drupal makes the pathway for your most regularly posted pieces of content, like events and stories, readily accessible to allow for a constant and steady stream of updates, ensuring the full range of our activity is highly visible and our site is always current and up to the minute.
Simple and organized
What do you like best about the product?
I really like our Drupal interface. It is, for the most part, simple and organized, and most things are easy to find. The tool works great to manage the back end of our website.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can be difficult to find certain features that I need to use, but this has only happened rarely. The tool is pretty intuitive to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily managing our website content.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good tool, don't hesitate to use it to manage your website.
Provides a large number of modules and plugins that extends the functionality of your website.
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal is a reliable Content Management System, as it powers a long list of popular websites. The software provides a wide range of features and functionality:
- Search Engine Optimisation is of utmost importance for the health of your site. If your website doesn't achieve well in terms of page rankings and search results, your online presence will suffer badly. Speaking from personal experience, Drupal does perfectly as long as you follow SEO Norms. Moreover, you are offered SEO tools.
- Security is vital for anything on the Internet. Drupal has over the years earn a reputation for its secure and powerful performance while it has had its own share of issues like numerous SQL injection vulnerabilities. The community has been quick to respond to the problems, and for most of the time, Drupal has fared well in terms of security.
- Drupal provides a large number of modules, themes and plugins that you can use to extend the functionality of your website. The software enables you to customize your site and make it meet your needs.
- Search Engine Optimisation is of utmost importance for the health of your site. If your website doesn't achieve well in terms of page rankings and search results, your online presence will suffer badly. Speaking from personal experience, Drupal does perfectly as long as you follow SEO Norms. Moreover, you are offered SEO tools.
- Security is vital for anything on the Internet. Drupal has over the years earn a reputation for its secure and powerful performance while it has had its own share of issues like numerous SQL injection vulnerabilities. The community has been quick to respond to the problems, and for most of the time, Drupal has fared well in terms of security.
- Drupal provides a large number of modules, themes and plugins that you can use to extend the functionality of your website. The software enables you to customize your site and make it meet your needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is steep, and it requires some efforts to understand, how the program works. Also, customization isn't the most straightforward process. Installation of an additional number of plugins can cause Drupal to slow down.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The software enabled me to build large and complex web pages from "Lego Bricks" instead of writing lines of code. The modules allowed me to save a lot of the time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Drupal is excellent for large or complex websites, but if you haven't used Content Management Systems before and know only the basics of web development, you won't manage the tool.
Effective software easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
The best feature of this product is its usability. It was very quick to pick up on with little previous experience at all in information technology. It took about an hour to gain grounding and from there was able to use it carefree. Drupal 8 has a lot more than Drupal 7 although it was a struggle for previous users to switch.
What do you dislike about the product?
I disliked the lack of features in drupal 7 however drupal 8 fixed the majority of the issues. I wish it was a little more personalized but I guess thats what you get when you shoot for usability for users. Overall a solid software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Editing websites, fixing deadlinks and errors. And creating webpages and programs within the platform.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nothing, very straight foward
User Friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal is pretty easy to pick up when you are already familiar with sites like WordPress
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing glaring to report, it does require a more intimate knowledge.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped us build out a news site for a client, which needed to have key functions like "endless scroll" to optimize traffic and pageviews.
A solid CMS with just a few hangups
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to build custom modules that are usable by the whole team, regardless of dev experience. Drupal also has a very large array of pre-built modules for all purposes and is constantly expanding.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is very difficult for content editors to also edit HTML or code. That is very much limited to developer roles, and it's hard to have any crossover.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
An easily editable, maintainable website with a high number of pages and users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider the needs and resources of your business. Effective implementation of Drupal requires full-time, or at least always-available dev support even for small businesses. Larger sites (50+ pages) may want multiple developers available to keep up to speed with updates, security and changes to your website. Permissions for large teams also take a fully dedicated web admin.
In summary, it's not as agile as newer, marketing-focused solutions such as Hubspot CMS, but it is very powerful and has a strong history.
In summary, it's not as agile as newer, marketing-focused solutions such as Hubspot CMS, but it is very powerful and has a strong history.
Accessible for beginners
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal felt like putting a puzzle together--it all felt low stakes, like I couldn't mess anything up.
What do you dislike about the product?
It wasn't tremendously easy to make it look beautiful! It always looked a little... kludgey.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It was a very easy way to provide a simple platform to interface with the public, with embedded contact mechanisms. Once we got it set up, it carried itself.
A complete CMS platform with lots of options
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Drupal gives me control over many of the design and layout aspects of my website. There are many themes from the Drupal community I can use to get websites or landing pages up and running, or at least started, very quickly. The control panel has options to let me update content dynamically, which can then appear on all relevant pages and sections in real time. I like being able to update nodes once rather then manually updating content across many pages. There are many tutorials and community discussions to help guide me through many of the common steps and problems that may occur.
What do you dislike about the product?
Compared to other CMS platforms like WordPress, I find Drupal to be much more complex and harder to understand. I think it takes a decent amount of technical knowledge to be able to implement and modify a Drupal install successfully. Some of the common themes are rather poorly designed and virtually useless for professional business purposes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drupal gives me a high amount of control over the web assets I design with it. It allows me to update content and page styles dynamically so I can get a fresh version up and running with limited delay. The cost of running Drupal is generally very low, which is great for our overall marketing budget. The Drupal community gives us creative ideas on how to leverage the platform for various business purposes we didn't consider before.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would definitely recommend Drupal as CMS platform that can give you a good amount of control over the design of your web assets. If you don't have much time to committ to learning about the system, you should start with a theme and go from there.
Powerful web management for beginners and advanced users alike
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Drupal is how easy it is to use and how scalable it is for users. You can be experienced with web management or a novice to it and still understand where everything is and how to edit your pages with ease. The functions are robust and allow for both html and rich text editing, which is helpful for users who may not understand coding. Lastly, one of the most useful functions has been being able to find and replace something across the entire website at once. It has been the most time saving function I've ever used.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much I can think to dislike about the Drupal platform. It has suited my needs well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drupal's interface is streamlined and works almost as a toolbar above the page you're editing, which makes access convenient when you need it and non-intrusive when to don't need it. I found this quite useful compared to other programs that are "always open" and take up screenspace when not needed.
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