About Drupal
My web services include custom HTML, CSS, and Drupal setup. I prefer to work with Drupal, but I can also create traditional static web pages using the latest techniques. Either way, I use current best practices for search engine optimization and usability. A website is at its best when it has something people want, and makes it easy for them to find it.
Why Drupal?
There are three major benefits to using Drupal for your website.
The first is that it's extremely powerful without needing any programming. If you need a site to do something complex - such as e-commerce or managing a large number of pages/files - and you can't program a line, Drupal is the way to go. Even if you can program, why reinvent the wheel? The key to Drupal's flexibility is user-contributed modules. They code so you don't have to.
Using free open-source software and no programming also means cutting costs. Caveat: if you need something very specific, you may still need to hire a programmer. On the upside, the Drupal powers-that-be have taken great pains to make it easy to contribute a new module. And the user community is both helpful and enthusiastic.
A properly configured Drupal site is also easy to update. There are still pages online that haven't been updated in 15 years because the person who made them is gone now. With Drupal, a web designer can set up a WYSIWYG editor that works similarly to a word processor, and the client can then update pages in a fraction of the time it would take to edit an HTML document. There's still a learning curve, but it's not much more difficult than using Dreamweaver or Microsoft Word. Better yet, it's all web-based so there are no licenses to buy nor installation on multiple computers.
Sites Using Drupal
For an idea of how versatile and scalable Drupal is, take a look at some high-profile examples:
- Entertainment: The Onion and its sister site, The AV Club
- Government: WhiteHouse.gov
- Science: Popular Science
- Technology: Yahoo! Research
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