Drupal Is A Solid Choice For Seasoned Programmers.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Over the years, we've tried out a lot of different CMS systems to create marketing and e-commerce websites for various divisions of the company. Drupal has been around for a long time, and we've given their CMS a ride in hopes of creating a website to showcase some of our company's products and information to visitors from targeted pet groups in our industry.
Pros
- It has excellent security features and consistent updates.
- It allows for extensive customization with the integrated themes and core code, especially when you first install it. This allows our dev team to get creative with marketing initiatives.
- There is a large online community of Drupal users that consistently help answer any questions and issues
Cons
- This is not an easy CMS to work with if you don't have a good understanding of website development. It isn't "plug-and-play" like Wordpress or Shopify.
- Over time, doing major updates to the system can be taxing, especially if you aren't well-versed enough in doing system updates in line with your "child" theme and code.
- The CMS can become somewhat cumbersome with server resources if not carefully optimized while you build and customize it to your liking.
Return on Investment
- Drupal helped us launch a creative, marketing- and product-focused website with custom coding integrations tailored to our goals.
- Drupal allows us to rely on secure and consistently updated core code.
- Drupal's code taxing on the server does start to get a bit heavy as you go along with customizations, so at some point, we decided to stop. We want to ensure our Google Page Score remains high, including paying close attention to page load speed.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
WordPress, Shopify, Wix and Squarespace
