Digiverto Canada offer for Web site design
Digiverto current offer for Web site design such as Personal web site, Small Business Web site, Medium Business Web site, Web site transfer to CMS and Online Web store designs are done using Drupal CMS ver. 7, which is current Drupal production version.
Web sites are hosted, as per buyer request, either at Canadian or at US servers.
Domain name registration, as per buyer request, can be done with different provider thus separated from Web site hosting provider, to avoid domain name locking with Web site hosting provider and to allow easy Web site transfer to different hosting provider.
This is usually done when buyer expect significant grow and may quickly outgrow hosting provider where web site may be initially hosted.
Why Choose Digiverto with Drupal based web site design?
Digiverto attention to details with free 30 days repair, correction and maintenance after web site is accepted by buyer.
Digiverto will upgrade any Drupal modules used by buyer's web site to latest stable release if newer versions of such modules are released up to 30 days after web site is accepted by buyer.
Digiverto is offering up to 8 hours of free training by phone/Skype and/or remote control program. After 30 days free maintenance of existing pages is over, buyer can continue to maintain and expand their web site.
Digiverto offers competitive rate for web site maintenance and upgrade when 30 days of free maintenance of existing pages is over.
Drupal is used to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine. Drupal has around 7000 thousands of plugins/modules for current production version 7 available on its website.
Drupal is used by some of the biggest sites on the Web, like The Economist, Examiner.com and The White House.
980,375 people in 228 countries speaking 181 languages power Drupal, as of July 29, 2013.
Drupal became one of the most comprehensive open source Web Content Management Systems - WCMS/CMS systems available.
A web content management system (WCMS) - according to Wikipedia - is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. A robust WCMS provides the foundation for collaboration, offering users the ability to manage documents and output for multiple author editing and participation.
The Drupal script has a very specific programming environment, that could be described better as a programmer's platform than a simple CMS script.
Drupal as an Open Source is chosen by many programmers who outgrew simpler scripts like WordPress.
The Drupal CMS can be downloaded and viewed at www.drupal.org
Advantages
Includes a lot of functionality
Drupal includes lot of functionalities like: advanced menu management, polls management, graphics modification tool, users' management and much more. These functions make it possible to create simple or advanced websites, blogs, discussion boards, social networking pages, etc.
Variety of content types
Drupal is famous for allowing creating and managing many content types, like: videos, polls, user management, text, blogs, podcasts, statistics, and others.
Advanced users management
An administrator can create new user accounts and establish their permission rights. Users can be divided into groups and can be given assignments. They can be given permissions to manage parts of your website.
Graphics management
Drupal includes capabilities of design elements editing. Available templates and themes make for a good start. Predefined page functions configurations make it easy to create both a simple as well as more complicated page configurations.
Page content management
Drupal allows you to categorize your content through URL addresses, paths, making your own lists. This structure makes for easy management, search and reuse of the content.
Plugins/Mudules
Drupal has around 7000 thousands of plugins/modules for current production version 7 available on its website. Since Drupal is an Open Source, you can use as well as create your own plugins.
Support
On the Drupal homepage, there's documentation, well developed discussion board, chat, mailing list, etc. You can find there plenty of information and help concerning management and modification of the script.
Disadvantages
Installation and modification
Drupal initial installation and subsequent configuration and re-configuration require advanced knowledge. Quick.Cms, WordPress and even Joomla are simpler to install, even though they do not offer functionalities as rich as Drupal does.
Compatibility
Drupal have plenty of new solutions. If you're used to different or older WCMS/CMS systems, getting used to Drupal will take some time.
Efficiency
When considering efficiency, Drupal in default configuration is behind other scripts like WordPress. Increased server load is caused by the big range of possibilities provided by Drupal. There are however settings as well as plugins that load a website to the server's cache, what decreases the server load.
Conclusions
Drupal is an advanced CMS system offering plenty functions, that in other scripts require installing many plugins (if they are at all available). Unfortunately it means that any interference in the script's code requires advanced knowledge of PHP and HTML languages as well as CSS.