Will Drupal Development Ever Rule the World

What is Open source and how can it be favorable?

Open source generally elaborates the software whose source code is created in such a way that it is publicly available and eligible for the use. It can be modified by the users, or Drupal developers. Following are the reasons why Drupal development services have gained so much popularity in the current scenario:

• It is completely free of cost for the users.
• There is a feasibility ofDrupal community including users, developers, or admin who always exist to help each other.
• This software is robust and stable because many Drupaldevelopers & experts are indulged in the process of testing. In case, any trouble arises, it can be immediately resolved.
• It comes under the GNU Public License. This simply means, it is free to download, use, and modify.There is no need to purchase, get licensed or pay the maintenance charges.

What is Content Management System and how does it help?

Content management system empowers the content authors in managing the website contents. But, it doesn’t contain a technical feature to edit the raw content. Following are the reasons why do people prefer Drupal development for their business website:      

• The user can publish the content directly because of its exclusive web-based tools. For instance, in Drupal, there is an editing tool viz. WYSIWYG which issimilar to word processing software of Microsoft.
• The user will have the proper control over whatever is being created by his end. This includes content editing, formattingand reviewing.
• Once the website gets famous and grow more than a few pages, ultimately the content will become complex. But, this process can be faster and easier as well through the CMS.

Where does Drupal use?

• Personal or corporate Web sites
• Community portal sites
• Intranet/Corporate sites
• Blogs, art, portfolio, multimedia sites, music
• International sites (inmulti-languages)
• Forums
• E-commerce sites
• Resource directories
• Social networking sites

Some of the globally renowned examples of Drupal development

• White House: whitehouse.gov
• Twitter developer community: http://dev.twitter.com
• Zynga https://zynga.com/
• GE: ge.com
• New York Stock Exchange: nyse.com
• Virgin, several websites including: virgin.com

What will be the future of Drupal development?

Before indulging into any system, it is important to explore its pros and cons. No doubt, Drupal has some of the learning curves. It’s not a matter of few days. Apart from this, it is quite harder to handle in comparison to the Wordpress development. But, once people get familiar, then it becomes as easy as eating pie.  

It is for those who have sufficient time to spend on educating themselves about this system and have some money on their pocket to pay for the Drupal developer to do work on the specific website.

In a nutshell, when it comes to the flexibility, customization and security, Drupal has gained the trust of all over the globe as it has the largest community with thousands of modules with zero licensing cost. The future of the Drupal Development is dazzling as besides websites, social networking sites, blogging sites, news publishing websites, media and art sites can also be created in it.

This article is written by Sarubpreet Kaur, who is a content writer in Quantum coders Ltd. It is a top-leading Drupal development agency based on the US.