Drupal Reviews and Ratings

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Drupal is well-suited for development teams seeking flexibility to scale on a dependable and secure coding platform. However, I would not recommend it to average developers or those looking for a more plug-and-play style CMS to get up and running quickly. It's also not the best solution for very large (database-heavy) websites, as the system can bog down server resources with its code.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Drupal for our website design through our web developer. We were able to customize the look and feel of the website and manage the content quickly. By using Drupal for website design, we were able to make changes in real time as opposed to needing to create a trouble ticket and waiting for support to update website content.

Likelihood to Recommend

There were some aspects, such as the drag and drop capabilities that we liked about Drupal, however, whenever customer support was needed, we had difficulty making a connection. Tasks that required additional support often led to us needing to create a trouble ticket with customer service. I was able to find some videos online that provided assistance, but for more challenging needs, it was a challenge getting the answers we needed.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Drupal for more complex web applications and sites. Drupal is a very dynamic tool that can fit many different projects, from a simple website with dynamic content or user access to more complex applications like multiuser social sites. Drupal is a great tool to learn how to apply, although it helps to know PHP and how to customize a website's design (HTML/CSS).

Likelihood to Recommend

Drupal is best suited for a dynamic website that needs customization and may need different user roles. It’s also great at learning to build a complex web application without knowing how to code a complex website. Although it can be implemented with minimal coding, knowing how to debug is almost necessary.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Drupal to build our website. It was incredibly limited and difficult. Because we are a nonprofit organization, many of our staff are volunteers or part-time. This made it very difficult to make updates, because managing and editing the site were not user-friendly processes. We moved to WordPress, which gave us so many more options (plugins) to create a manageable user interface and to train our volunteers to work within the website and keep things organized and updated. We're very happy we switched even with the initial cost of transitioning.

Likelihood to Recommend

Drupal might be a good place to build a website if you are a developer and know exactly what you want and how to code it. Additionally, if the website will only ever be modified by developers. In situations where it would eb beneficial to have many people access the website (who are not developers), I'd highly recommend going with a different tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<ul><li>To develop content oriented and transaction oriented sites</li><li>Non technical users can easily build sites using Drupal</li><li>Drupal 8 and above have responsive design included.</li><li>Easy access to inline edit mode that directly allows the users to edit components then and there without having them to move to a whole new page as in case of full page edit mode.</li></ul>

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a team that comprises a less number of developers and large number of content writers than Drupal is a must.

It is written using PHP which almost all developers habe experience with or can get easily accustomed to.

Multilingual functionalities of Drupal are exceptional.

Last but not the least, if you are looking for content management systems then look no where Drupal is your answer.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Drupal daily, that's our main driver for any websites and apps we are developing, this has been the case for the past 12 years for me personally, the scope is as wide as a small local webshop to large enterprise organizations, connecting multiple websites as services to each other, we also use Drupal as a content hub as a headless CMS, or just fetching data off of it with exposed API

Likelihood to Recommend

Well, I'm definitely biased, I've been working with Drupal for 12+ years, and I can say it's appropriate for any size/scale of a project, whether it's a small catalog website or a huge corporation. If I want to dial it down to a specific use case, Drupal is best what most customers/clients that have high-security standards, and need to have extensive editorial experience and control over their website's architecture. Due to its core design, Drupal can connect with each part of its own and any external third-party resources quite easily. For a less-suited scenario, I might say that if you don't have enough budget to get proper work done, sometimes just using WordPress with a pre-designed theme might sound better to you, but if you have the budget and the time, always go with Drupal

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With Drupal, we customize all modules to meet the best marketing terms, respond to the needs and guarantee clients a better web presence. With its ability to manage different themes for each site and have a unique look and feel, all of our clients we have worked with have been satisfied. It has allowed us to create websites and update our clients' sites.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my experience, Drupal is an excellent CMS with advanced features that offer powerful content management. It has guaranteed security to back up data and is constantly being updated with new features. It also allows you to customize your websites the way you want.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is a very powerful tool for the general construction of websites.

Drupal is used by my department as a content management tool to bring information and communication to our users on a variety of digital channels. All of this is managed using the open source Drupal framework for which we have a license. Another very interesting point is the possibility of applying different themes for each site. It allows good user management and is also easy to use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Drupal is suitable for design or development professionals looking for a more robust platform than Joomla or WordPress. It has many better features. With a little thought and creativity, Drupal allows you to do many amazing things. The possibility of integration with PHP modules is really the limit for customization. However, Drupal is not suitable for amateurs; someone who wants to make just one website for themselves; or a professional on a tight deadline. The learning curve can be a very big obstacle and is sometimes not worth it.

I have been working for some time and sometimes give up on some projects and choose another tool. It is definitely not a technology for those in a hurry, it is necessary to have time and dedication. The newer versions of Drupal are more friendly and intuitive and allow the construction of many cool things.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Drupal is the content management system we choose when we made our website again.

It is used by both marketing and IT department :

The marketing dept uses it mainly to manage content, add or modify pages, and get customer behavior insights,

while the IT dept uses it mainly for user/access management and maintenance purposes.

Likelihood to Recommend

On my sense, it is by far the best enterprise Content Management System, at a time when security and scalability are highly required. But consider another way if you can't afford a robust 3rd party IT provider or a specialized/dedicated IT team that can provide support for non IT users.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Historical Society considered using Drupal vs Sitefinity and settled on Drupal due to its open-source structure and versatility. Drupal is a strong tool to use for large organizations where having the ability to do almost anything is key. The software is more like a framework than a CMS in that you can transform it into almost anything you want like building blocks. One thing to keep in mind is it has a steep learning curve for new users and it is very unopinionated in style and setup.

Likelihood to Recommend

For universities and historical societies, [Drupal] is an excellent tool to showcase your institution's different departments and capabilities. I would not recommend this software for smaller organizations with smaller IT departments since it is a lot for a single developer to do by themselves. Excellent enterprise software for no cost.