Drupal

Drupal is our application framework and content management system of choice. We use it commercially to build:

  • Brochure sites and shops for any size business
  • Social networks for startups and established dotcoms
  • E-commerce applications for charities, hospitals and other NGO's
  • Internet and extranet applications for UK Government bodies
  • Sophisticated search, analysis and reporting platforms for the PR industry
  • Headless XML and JSON servers for flash front ends
  • Headless content servers for iphone and nokia applications

Drupal is a free open source project licenced under the GNU and written in PHP - which means it does not attract any licence fee's at all. It is capable of running on any platform that supports PHP and MySQL (or Postgres). We recommend and support running it on our custom LAMP stacks on the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Working with Drupal is akin to working with Lego. Its easy to get started, difficult to put down and it's possible to build everything from a simple box to a complex castle. On wheels. With jets. Or a blue space rocket. With neon-flashing widget attractors.

Although with great power comes great responsibility. It's easy to build complicated sites with custom functionality quickly, it's also just as easy to build a site with no regard for lifecycle management which will make it near impossible to cost-effectively maintain in the long term.

We guarantee that all our work will be delivered to a high standard. We never hack core, and we always try to extend and reuse before writing any code. The fact is that we host nearly all of the sites we produce. This means it is in our best interests to ensure the code meets our own high standards:

  1. All code will be deployed secure by default
  2. Performance will be measured and improved while we code
  3. Functionality will meet or exceed the brief so long as it doesn't compromise the first two principles

Contact us with your full brief or a drawing of what you want (photoshop, gimp or wax crayon accepted) or a half formed idea and we'll let you know how much it will cost to build. The only limits are your brief and budget.

You can read more about Drupal here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal or you can checkout the official site www.drupal.org