Drupal Development

Drupal is the daddy of all content management systems. Both a powerful and flexible content management system,  Drupal allows users to build and manage anything from a simple, brochure site to a highly complex database driven application.

Drupal allows users to easily publish, manage and share a wide variety of content on the internet. Setting up your own personal website or blog has never been easier. Just seconds after installing Drupal, you will be able to share photos from your last holiday, your opinions on the hottest news and much, much more with your family and friends. In fact, Drupal is so flexible that it can also be used to create corporate and community websites in a flash. You will be able to manage teams, host discussions, run polls, communicate and use a myriad of other productivity-enhancing features with minimal effort. Drupal even does ecommerce out of the box! Drupal is the epiphany of website creation and is used by many well known sites, perhaps most notably by The White House.

As you have no doubt guessed, Systemick love doing Drupal development, Its not the simplest CMS on the market and some developers (not us) are slightly intimidated by it. But it is so flexible, extensible and powerful that it puts all the alternatives to shame. Maintained by a large open source development community the functionality of Drupal just grows and grows. With the release of Drupal 7 in early 2011 Drupal's popularity is bound to increase. Systemick work with both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.

Drupal Module Development
Modules are small, self contained packages of functionality which can usually be dropped in to an existing Drupal site and enabled from the admin interface. Modules are the best way to add customised functionality requirements to a Drupal powered website. Systemick use exisiting Drupal modules where ever possible to develop functionality. Many times these modules will work 'out of the box' but Systemick can also develop new modules where no appropriate module exists to provide the functionality required.

Drupal Theme Development
Themes are the method that Drupal uses to display content. Themes can be used to display small pieces of content on a page or the whole page itself using a mixture of PHP, XHTML and CSS. Whether you're creating a new Drupal site or moving an existing site over to Drupal you will need to create a Drupal theme to display your content. Systemick can develop custom themes for your CMS website.

Drupal Configuration
A great deal of functionality in Drupal can be added from the admin interface using modules such as CCK and Views. Though this can be done with a minimum amount of PHP knowledge it is often quite a daunting task for Drupal newcomers. That's where Systemick can help. Systemick can do the configuration and add PHP and CSS code where it is needed to transform a simple Drupal site into a robust, reliable web application.

Don't just take our word for it. Read more about Drupal at Wikipedia. Alterntaively visit the Drupal website

For a free consultation about Drupal development in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield or accross the UK please call Systemick Web Development Leeds on 07878 972159 or email us here.