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Choices abound when it comes to selecting a content management system. No two content management systems are exactly alike and, depending on one’s specific needs, one may have an edge over the other. Three content management systems dominate the current open-source landscape: Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla!

These are three very powerful platforms with vibrant ecosystems – thousands of end-users, commercial vendors, and developers. Thousands of add-ons have been contributed for each CMS by extremely active developer communities, which help create dynamic and powerful websites much faster and a lot easier. For example, if you want built any of the common (and many of the not-so-common) web app features in your site, chances are you would find them already available as add-ons! It would be interesting to note that all three of them have been written in PHP, use MySQL database, and are licensed under the free GNU General Public License.


When to Use Drupal
WordPress, with its installation simplicity and content presentation paradigm of treating all articles as either blog posts or web pages, is the best starter CMS and very intuitive for new users to grasp. Diverse plugins and themes make its use even simpler.

Compared to WordPress, Joomla sites require more coding to get them to look and behave the exact way you want. Hence, it is a better fit for more complex sites managed by persons with stronger technical skills. The availability of numerous extensions and themes make the job easier here, too.

Drupal is relatively harder to learn, but once you are up to speed on its learning curve, it has much more flexibility compared to WordPress and Joomla to scale up a site in terms of complexity. Driven by a powerful core, great extensibility, superior content presentation paradigm, and aided by the largest active web developer community, Drupal has the ability to scale up to very dynamic and complex sites catering to a variety of business needs.


Custom Drupal Development
Today, Drupal is powering millions of websites around the globe. Drupal sites range from personal blogs to industrial-strength enterprise applications. Drupal is behind some of the most popular e-commerce portals, community sites, corporate sites, government sites, etc.

Drupal offers a sophisticated and powerful programming interface for developers which lets one create a site of any complexity one can imagine. Custom Drupal development services enable Drupal users to powerfully customize and extend Drupal’s core capabilities and add new features to suit their unique needs. Expert Drupal development services, offered by Drupal service providers, can expedite the process of customizing and/or extending Drupal's core functionalities. Custom Drupal development services can also make the whole process painless and worry-free.


Mindfire Drupal Development Services
Custom Drupal development companies like Mindfire Solutions provide expert Drupal development services backed by years of experience of providing custom Drupal solutions for a variety of industries and customer needs. Mindfire's team of Drupal specialists has earned it the trust of its clients and industry-wide reputation for delivering first-class Drupal services.

If you want to reach out to a Custom Drupal development company to customize or extend Drupal’s functionalities or need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s Drupal development India experts.





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