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Cheap and usefull tool for web design and develop
What do you like best about the product?
The big catalog of modules to make everything you need.
What do you dislike about the product?
The quality of some modules, but, its free at least.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Web develop.
Code recycle and quick solutions.
Code recycle and quick solutions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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Support Is Lacking
What do you like best about the product?
We got into Drupal 6 because it was the best CMS on the market. Multiple modules are available to support construction of a website that is as simple or complex as you need to make it. It is a great out-of-the box solution, especially for those who need a plug and play solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
As we progressed from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, the cracks of the system began to show. Key modules are either not maintained or their maintainers do not listen to user feedback, so you're left to try to manipulate and hack the code yourself to make it work for your needs. We have migrated away from Drupal so that we do not have to go through the upgrade nightmare of moving to Drupal 8.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We did not have a CMS before Drupal, so it helped us create key components of a system that could support a wide user base without putting too much strain on ourselves. Additionally, it helped us perfect our learning management system so that we know what we would need in a new CMS.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Know what you need out of the system, do your research before diving in, and understand that often times you'll be on your own to code the modules to work for your individual needs.
Over complicated CMS with very little flexibility
What do you like best about the product?
This is quite hard to write something which was best. I think the search functionality for membership type sites was pretty advanced however you could easily in another CMS build the same functionality 3 times quicker. The admin area is ok
What do you dislike about the product?
The system has poor online support. You will need a full stack developer to administrate and manage the code and updates. You need multiple plugins to get simple functionality to work. The updates of the core are also a minefield and you have to be very careful when upgrading.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drupal solved a problem I had where I wanted to combine a search based on multiple filters and then outputting the information into a lightbox. I also need a smart way to manage the company information in the backend. One really good function I was able to do is work with Affiliate links, I was able to pull in 30 to 40 feeds and upto 15000 lines of data every 15 minutes and convert them to posts to form a sports news website.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You will need to have on going support and have a very good understanding of the folder structure and template structures. You also need to research heavily the plugins and sub dependant plugins which you will need to have to make a simple function work. The updates are also a minefield. E-Commerce as well is particular bad. There is a plugin but support is about 2 to 3 years out of date
Robust Open Source That is Ready When You Are
What do you like best about the product?
The Drupal developer community is really what makes Drupal the CMS it is today. If there is a business need or problem chances are the Drupal community already tackled it in multiple variations. Businesses and organizations just need to ask them selves if they are ready to invest in Drupal and if the answer is yes, then the choice is pretty clear. Drupal is a robust and well thought out and fast moving CMS, expect rapid change and updates and plan for it. The CLI tool called Drush is an industry best which no organization should do without. Remarkable performance can be achieved when the correct hosting is realized. Themeing a Drupal site is a joy when the right base theme is created or selected. The end result of a finished product is a website/product and backing CMS that will run near flawlessly for years on end.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for developers (arrays of doom) and end users is a bit jagged, but not impossible, at it's core Drupal is remarkably simple and powerful. Versions 6 and 7 are stable beyond expectation, version 8 is rapidly becoming the way forward, but still needs some major work in certain areas (media module). Organizations do have an up front development cost which might be too steep and without in house expertise in one area or another it may look like the least likely of candidates for CMS selection.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Establishing web presence and expanding and extending enterprise level services to the public.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be ready to make significant investment in staffing hours to support Drupal or select from one of the many 3rd party development/hosting/support vendors that are widely available .
Drupal provides a back-end framework for websites, blogs, Use Drupal for website content management
What do you like best about the product?
Very Easy to use with simple steps to set up web pages . Also very convenient to allow team members to edit and update pages by themselves. Features include user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS feeds, taxonomy, page layout customization, and system administration.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really , The core Drupal distribution provides a number of features, including:[52]
Access statistics and logging
Advanced search
Blogs, books, comments, forums, and polls
Caching and feature throttling for improved performance
Descriptive URLs
Multi-level menu system
Multi-site support[53]
Multi-user content creation and editing
OpenID support
RSS feed and feed aggregator
Security and new release update notification
User profiles
Various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses, email)
Workflow tools (triggers and actions)
Access statistics and logging
Advanced search
Blogs, books, comments, forums, and polls
Caching and feature throttling for improved performance
Descriptive URLs
Multi-level menu system
Multi-site support[53]
Multi-user content creation and editing
OpenID support
RSS feed and feed aggregator
Security and new release update notification
User profiles
Various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses, email)
Workflow tools (triggers and actions)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building a website easily that is maintainable over time. The administration of the framework requires no programming skills
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Drupal.org has a large community of users and developers who provide active community support
Great way to add features to your website
What do you like best about the product?
It provides a way for someone to easily make updates to a site without knowing HTML. Someone can create a basic site in Drupal for someone else, and that person only needs to click "edit" to make instant changes to any page. It also allows for vast customization of a website, including almost any feature you can think of just by installing a module.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can take a while to learn. Someone who already knows HTML, and/or is comfortable with new technology should not have a problem. But tech novices may find it too difficult. You also need to plan for regularly updating the software, as there are frequent security patches in Drupal that need to be installed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drupal gave us the ability to incorporate extra features into our site, including a blog and an event calendar. It also allowed us to have a nice-looking site without having to have a professional designer.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
When using Drupal, be prepared to spend quite a bit of time learning how it works, and playing around with the features. You have to think of Drupal more in terms of a database, made up of individual pieces of content called "nodes," rather than in terms of a static site made up of individual pages. You'll also need to complete several setup tasks at the beginning, such as choosing a theme (or downloading/installing a different theme), filling in the site title/slogan/logo, and deciding what features and modules are important for the site to have.
Flexible CMS for a website/app of any size
What do you like best about the product?
As an agency who builds websites constantly, we've found that Drupal gives us the most flexibility to be creative and design stunning websites that are also technically sound and easy to manage on the back end.
What do you dislike about the product?
There honestly aren't many things that we can complain about.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Clients come to us with ugly websites that their IT department alone can manage. Building Drupal sites gives our clients a robust CMS that they can easily maintain and manage on their own. We perform updates periodically, but for the most part can remain pretty hands off if the client wants to run with their new site. Additionally, we have the ability to create virtually anything that our clients as in terms of functionality. This makes us look like rockstars and our clients thrilled with their site/app.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is open source and comes with a large community of help. We would high recommend giving it a second look when considering a CMS for your website!
Good website management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Easy for users to use to update their sites
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to hire programmers who know this rather than other platforns
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Need a tool to easily use across campus
Versatile content management system with the best user community out there
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal can be used for projects of any size -- you can use it to throw together a prototype of a small community site in a weekend, or follow community best practices to create an enterprise information system that serves 10,000+ users. The software make it possible to build almost any system you need, and the community-supported modules typically provide you with 60-80% of the features you need without having to write custom code. The Drupal community, and the community-driven development process, is one of the strongest open source communities you will ever find. The structure provides you with the information and support you need when you need it, while providing a way for you to contribute back whenever it is convenient for you. Often, when you have an issue, you can find a patch that others have contributed for you to get by while an official fix is prepared.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Drupal can make hard things easy, it also has a tendency to make easy things hard. Community-provided Drupal modules often provide you with 60-80% of what you want, but in order to get your project working in a way that fits your requirements (or your customer's requirements), you have to write custom modules or patch bugs on your own. Sometimes to fix something that isn't working, you have to dig into parts of Drupal core or community modules that are terse and difficult to understand long sections of code that need refactoring. Often an issue you need fixed ends up being a known issue for which the community has been debating "the right fix" for several years. If you don't adopt best practices regarding source control, features, patch management, and staying up-to-date with new versions, you can end up creating a project with a lot of technical debt that is difficult to maintain without a large team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drupal provides us with a way to build large, multi-user information systems without having to implement common functionality of user management, content management, or core architecture. It frees us to focus on the business problem at hand rather than on the low level architecture. It also provides well-defined interfaces between modules that ensure that most modules we find out in the community will work with other modules we use or write from scratch. Finally, Drupal provides a wealth of best practices and extension points to allow us to scale up what we build as our user bases scale.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider whether you just need a blog or single use-case system versus a full-blown information system. Drupal is not a good fit for single-user or single use-case sites because it requires a fair amount of time to setup to work the way you need. WordPress, Shopify, and Strikingly are all good platforms for smaller, simpler sites like those.
Conversely, if you do need a more custom or complex system, Drupal is a wonderful fit, if you're willing to put in the time to do things right. The more time you put in, the better the result. This includes:
- Taking the time to get to know the community.
- Adopting the recommended best practices for change management, and making extensive use of revision control.
- Whenever possible, keeping site structure and logic in code that you can commit to GIT rather than in the database. Content belongs in the database; structure belongs in code.
- Never hacking core code or module code, but being ready to adopt a patch management process when you do need to apply short-term patches until a full fix is ready for issues.
Conversely, if you do need a more custom or complex system, Drupal is a wonderful fit, if you're willing to put in the time to do things right. The more time you put in, the better the result. This includes:
- Taking the time to get to know the community.
- Adopting the recommended best practices for change management, and making extensive use of revision control.
- Whenever possible, keeping site structure and logic in code that you can commit to GIT rather than in the database. Content belongs in the database; structure belongs in code.
- Never hacking core code or module code, but being ready to adopt a patch management process when you do need to apply short-term patches until a full fix is ready for issues.
User friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to navigate and train users to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Versions are drastically different and makes it had to train
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Content migration
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