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Drupal is a versatile CMS for development that helps users curate their web content well.
What do you like best about the product?
It is incredibly versatile from a development standpoint. However, from a content generator's standpoint, it is incredibly approachable, and easy to understand. The use of open source modules allows any site to implement new features quickly and easily without any additional incurred cost.
What do you dislike about the product?
Implementation is incredibly complex. Once everything is set up and clients have been trained on use, it runs great, but getting to that point is extremely hard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Drupal has worked well when clients are looking to curate their web content, keeping it fresh, and timely.
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Drupal is a very popular open source CMS
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal has a very active user and developer community. There are more sites running Drupal than you would know without looking under the hood. Because it is so popular a drupal site can look vastly different from each other with themes while retaining a common underlying management interface. Drupal sites are also very easy to move from one hosting company to another.
What do you dislike about the product?
Drupal upgrades as relatively frequent but are not necessarily intuitive once you have implemented customizations. Since Drupal is popular it is also a frequent target of malicious activity although not nearly as much as is Wordpress.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used Drupal for all sorts of web sites from intranets to customer sites delivering analytics data.
Complex CMS but highly extensible
What do you like best about the product?
Drupal is great for building and managing websites that require custom content types and workflows. It provides built-in, GUI-based, functionality for creating content types, workflow rules, and other custom content management requirements. Drupal has has a strong built-in user management system. It's more of a framework of GUI-based tools that allow you to more quickly extend it for your requirements. Drupal also offers a well-developed API for extending the system. It's add-on ecosystem is also better managed then some other CMS. Powerful command line tools are also available to make operational management tasks (such as upgrades, sync'ing from dev to production, etc) much easier. The Views module is exceptionally useful for knitting together tables of data that draw on the fields on distinct content types.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of it's management features are not as slick on the front-end as WordPress. For example, upgrading modules is most easily done using command line tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to build several websites that utilize many custom content types (content that have many unique fields within the type). It's extensible nature allowed us to easily integrate with third-party, hosted systems and pull/push data to those systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a steeper learning curve if you've never worked with it before. It really is more of a blend between a framework with API's and CMS. It's critical to understand your requirements first and determine whether to invest the development resources to implement a Drupal site. I highly recommend using Pantheon of Acquia to spin up a free dev site to learn about Drupal.
I would not use another CMS. Drupal does it all.
What do you like best about the product?
I have been using Drupal since D5 after trying various other CMS including PHP website and Joomla.
I found Drupal to be the most challenging at first but after some time developing websites with it I am more than happy with the amount of knowledge I've acquired in order to use it to its full capability.
My latest project uses Drupal 8 which I have found to be better, as always, with each new release.
I'm currently using D7 and D8 for two different projects. Drupal 8 has more features enabled in core now. This is a huge added benefit which simplifies the development process.
I found Drupal to be the most challenging at first but after some time developing websites with it I am more than happy with the amount of knowledge I've acquired in order to use it to its full capability.
My latest project uses Drupal 8 which I have found to be better, as always, with each new release.
I'm currently using D7 and D8 for two different projects. Drupal 8 has more features enabled in core now. This is a huge added benefit which simplifies the development process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Once the knowledge is obtained it's a case of finding and comparing modules so Drupal can do what it does best. Content Management.
The research does take some time to get it right and to plan for future upgrades etc but the time is well spent.
The research does take some time to get it right and to plan for future upgrades etc but the time is well spent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My most current project (screenshot uploaded) will use Groups.
I need to be able to categorise users into 'coaches' and 'members'. The coaches will be available to members who are looking for personalised information regarding embarking on the ketogenic lifestyle.
I will be using integrated Paypal/Credit/Debit card as payment methods.
I need to be able to categorise users into 'coaches' and 'members'. The coaches will be available to members who are looking for personalised information regarding embarking on the ketogenic lifestyle.
I will be using integrated Paypal/Credit/Debit card as payment methods.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can do anything with Drupal but careful research and the comparing of modules are essential when looking to future scalability and version upgrades.
Calm down and clear the cache
What do you like best about the product?
The websites I maintain (from the content side) are all on Drupal, so I had to learn it in a hurry. I've worked on both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8, and feel confident discussing them both.
1. Multiple ways to solve most issues.
2. Clearing the cache fixes lots of quirks.
3. Easy to config from the content/layout side.
4. Open source means there's lots of support online.
5. WYSIWYG will be comfortable and familiar to most people who've worked on a website before. Maybe not as much as WordPress, but then the Drupal v. WordPress battle rages on.
6. Did I mention open source? Modules, modules everywhere! If you need an enhancement, there's a module out there for it.
1. Multiple ways to solve most issues.
2. Clearing the cache fixes lots of quirks.
3. Easy to config from the content/layout side.
4. Open source means there's lots of support online.
5. WYSIWYG will be comfortable and familiar to most people who've worked on a website before. Maybe not as much as WordPress, but then the Drupal v. WordPress battle rages on.
6. Did I mention open source? Modules, modules everywhere! If you need an enhancement, there's a module out there for it.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Nodes are weird to get used to. Anything can be a node. Node = chunk of content.
2. The Preview button is useless.
3. The backend could really be more user-friendly for content managers, although D8 has made many improvements. (I was stoked for in-line editing, but even that only works for certain fields.)
4. Multiple ways to solve most issues means admins can argue over whose way is best.
2. The Preview button is useless.
3. The backend could really be more user-friendly for content managers, although D8 has made many improvements. (I was stoked for in-line editing, but even that only works for certain fields.)
4. Multiple ways to solve most issues means admins can argue over whose way is best.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We maintain a suite of sites on Drupal, and it works well for us. This includes a templated "site in a box" product, which allows us to deploy a site quickly and reliably. All of us on the team being proficient in Drupal means we work well together and can work on multiple sites, since the backend is largely the same.
Great platform not for those who have no coding experience
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy the platform overall and I feel that it is more secure than traditional Wordpress sites.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a drag and drop application. You will need to have coding skills and understand the backend of a website. Do not attempt if you have only mildly utilized Wordpress drag and drop templates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Relaunching a website off of a DNN (Dot Net Nuke) for a corporate website.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great Platform! You can create professional and functional website with so many options to customize and build out
An enterprise solution that works when you work it
What do you like best about the product?
It's a solution that's relatively simple to implement across an organization with multiple websites and site managers, allowing for consistency while keeping users independent. Users are able to quickly learn the tool after brief training, even those who lack knowledge of web development or design. The webform style seems intuitive to the average individual.
What do you dislike about the product?
Our more savvy users are frustrated by the limitations of the tool. That said, many of the limitations they don't like are imposed by our team because we don't have the manpower to support maintenance of multiple features. We only have one dedicated Drupal developer who is responsible for more than 250 websites using the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our primary business problem was governance -- everyone wanted to do their own thing (flashing red type, HTML-only sites, etc.) and there was no way to keep tabs on what sites were outdated when management changed hands. It was tough to have so many abandoned sites with our brand. Now, everyone is on the same theme with complementary color palettes and layouts. We can step in with content updates if needed or to fix broken modules.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have the human resources necessary to support organization-wide implementation. Attend Drupal camps and events that ensure you're making the most of the tool.
Very easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Let me say that I'm not a developer or a designer, so I haven't been on the back end of Drupal in that way. I am, however, an editor, & I post regularly to the educational website our organization runs, so I use Drupal basically all day every day. It is SO much easier to use than Wordpress & the CMS we used before that, which I can no longer even remember the name of. For users, at least, Drupal is fairly self-explanatory, straight-forward, & easy to figure out, at least in terms of posting & editing site content. It took me a bit to get the hang of it, but now, aside from the occasional glitch here & there, every day with Drupal is smooth sailing.
What do you dislike about the product?
We seem to run into a number of strange glitches at least once a week, some weird issue like a random change in site font or content turning up in places it's not meant to be. Because I'm not a developer, it's difficult for me to say where they stem for or why this seems to keep happening, but it does indeed seem to keep happening, & while our developers are always quick to work on a fix, it's annoying that it seems to happen so frequently in the first place.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Starting to use Drupal allowed my organization to create a beautiful & robust new site with millions of visitors each year since we launched in 2014. It took us from a nonprofit organization with one difficult-to-manage organizational website to a nonprofit that runs one of the most popular websites worldwide in our area of expertise (in addition to a new organizational website, which is now much prettier & much easier to use). Our editors & site administrators find both sites much easier to use, cutting down on the amount of time it takes them (us!) to do this sort of work & thus freeing us up to create more content & more compelling content.
Drupal made accessing our website information quick and painless.
What do you like best about the product?
I liked that I could easily gain access to the web page I needed to edit. Also, there were plenty of online tutorials available for learning how to do new things with it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the areas that I didn't need or use often were more difficult to navigate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a way to easily change information on some of our web pages, Drupal allowed us to do so.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use and great for quick access to editing web pages.
Very intuitive CMS
What do you like best about the product?
It's so intuitive! I worked in the full translation of a well-known website and even though I had never used it before, I only needed a couple of hours induction to continue managing it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Whenever there's a glitch, things can get ugly as it seems that customer service can be a little bit slow. Other than that, I would highly recommend this CMS to anybody wanting to build a strong, professional-looking website that allows for team collaboration and reliable response.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I feel it allows a lot of flexibility for design.
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