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The Internet provides an immense opportunity for you to interact directly with your current and prospective customers. Comprehensive website planning, design, and development is the true passion of Pickering’s web development team. Our website projects range in size and scope, yet share a quality of professional integrity that engages site users with compelling messages and intuitive functionality.
Pickering Creative Group can fulfill your online business requirements with web application development, custom and open source content management systems, and visual designs that will function on a wide range of web-enabled devices.
Pickering believes in developing a website that can complement your marketing strategy, enhance your organization’s identity, and grow as your company does. If you have been shopping for a content management system (CMS), then you know there are many options such as Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla. Pickering opts to use Drupal and believes it has the power, flexibility, and overall functionality to provide the best return on your investment.
Drupal is a powerful, easy to update, CMS that is used across the globe. Visit some of the websites below to see the versatility available with Drupal CMS:
Drupal websites developed by Pickering:
Our development team has created websites with various CMS platforms, but believes the Drupal CMS is truly superior to the others currently available.
Superior? That is a pretty bold statement. Let us tell you why. Our rationale certainly has you in mind.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Drupal is the clear choice CMS when SEO is a priority. Search Engine Optimization improves your website visibility through search engine rankings. Our web developers use Drupal in a manner to increase your rankings on search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. The SEO functionality Drupal offers goes well beyond meta tags, key words, and a site map.
Structurally Flexible
Drupal can support a variety of site structures, from personal websites to corporate enterprises, and has virtually no limit to the number of pages your web platform can support. One unique Drupal feature is that it can highlight content in a variety of places on your website and format it differently in various areas of the site. For instance, you have a calendar of events on your site; on the home page it could be displayed in a paginated list, while on an interior page it appears as a calendar. This creates efficiencies by allowing you to edit content in one place and see the changes reflected throughout the site.
Easily Updateable
Pickering custom tailors each development project for our clients’ individual needs, considering each site administrator’s level of technical literacy. With a simple content editor add-on module, the site administrator can easily search for and update content with limited HTML knowledge.
Versatile Access Control
As your organization maintains its website, there is often a need or desire to assign users or groups to maintain specific sections—to ensure content is accurate and relevant. Drupal excels far beyond other content management systems by allowing virtually infinite control over group access and permissions. A Drupal-developed site gives the administrator the capacity to create a level of “roles,” providing each role a varied level of “permission”. As one example, the granular permission structure may allow an “editor” to create content that remains unpublished, until the “manager” approves the content; thus, pushing the information live. The robust “roles and permissions” structure Drupal provides will help solve your business needs, and streamline the process for keeping your web presence current.
Revision Control
The CMS can be configured to save each version of page edits made to the site. This is especially helpful if you migrate content into the incorrect place, or something is accidentally deleted. With one click of the mouse the page can be reverted back to its previous version.
Support Community
Drupal has a considerable following of designers and developers who contribute to the strength of its online community. There are countless discussion boards, blogs, and sites dedicated to sharing Drupal knowledge, ideas, and innovations. The Drupal community is committed to ensuring the CMS continues to be a top performer.
Add-on Modules
The Drupal community has developed thousands of add-on modules, which can be embedded to sites developed in Drupal. These modules can extend and customize the functionality of your website, and most of them were created by the Drupal support community.
Graphically Versatile
Drupal has the versatility to support even the most complex custom designs. With the use of Drupal, content and navigation can be easily customized to stay consistent with the look and feel of your organization’s brand. Printer-friendly modules are also available to embed within pages that are frequently printed, such as forms and FAQs.
Community Functionality
Websites that are developed with Drupal CMS have the functionality for community input. This means that Drupal supports the interactive component of a website, and has the ability to engage visitors through comments, visitor subscriptions, and social media sharing.
Organized Content
Keeping information updated on a website can be challenging, especially with limited HTML or CSS knowledge. Thankfully, Drupal makes it easy if the site is properly developed. The content on your website is categorized in a straightforward manner with copy and images organized separately to expedite the updating process.
Security
All CMS platforms can have web bugs or security problems. Any vulnerability with Drupal is posted on Drupal.org, and the support community along with Drupal’s security team goes to work to correct the issue. Modules are continuously developed and updated by the community to meet the expectations of the Security Advisories.
Alternative OpenSource CMS's
Joomla and Wordpress are two of the most recognized alternatives to the Drupal CMS. Pickering has developed websites in both of these CMS platforms but continued to run into issues with flexibility, functionality, expandability and poor quality control. To reiterate, here are some examples of why Pickering views Drupal as superior.
Joomla: With such large open source communities quality control is important. Joomla offers thousands of additional add-on modules to customize and add functionality to a website; however, we have found the quality of the Joomla modules to be inconsistent. All add-on modules posted on Drupal.org must be approved, and follow Drupal.org’s strict security and coding standards for consistency. This attention to detail isn’t true for all other CMS platforms and can result in set-backs in development.
Wordpress: If you are looking for a very cheap do-it-yourself option, Wordpress offers a turnkey solution to get a website up and running; however, that simplicity results in growth and functionality limitations. Partnering with a development team that is skilled in Drupal can provide you with a site with limitless functionality, and one that is more robust and powerful than that developed with any other CMS.
Learn More
If you have any questions or want to know more technical information about how we develop websites, we would be happy to meet with you. Please call 402.423.5447 or click here to contact us. To view more Drupal websites developed by Pickering, visit our web development portfolio.
