Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Drupal Development

No prizes for guessing, what’s the flavour of the season in corporate India. It is of course, offshore outsourcing. And with Drupal (Content Management System) spawning significant demand in the foreign shores, the Indian programmers are all-set to tackle the growing requirements and obviously the developers at Rightway Solution with strong domain knowledge. For the newbie’s on the block, Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and content management system which is used in the programming language PHP.

Though many Content Management Systems are available, the developers have taken a liking for Drupal, as its built-in functionality with add on modules, facilitates host of activities like,

  • Arranging the content,
  • Modifying its appearance,
  • Computerizing of the administrative tasks,
  • Managing site guests and contributors.
  • Forums
  • Peer to Peer networking
  • Newsletters
  • Podcasting
  • Picture galleries
  • File uploading and downloading

Being a sophisticated programming interface; most of the tasks can be achieved with small or no programming. In fact, scores of people and organizations have been using Drupal to power or say, support their web sites, including,

  • Community web portals
  • Chat sites
  • Company web sites
  • Intranet applications
  • Blogs
  • Fan sites
  • E-commerce applications
  • Resource directories
  • Social Networking sites

It has been reported that from May 2006 to April 2007; Drupal was downloaded from the website more than 6, 00,000 times. A valid proof on the software’s growing popularity. Besides, Drupal software is free to download and use. So if your find that Drupal has all those critical characteristics that will go a long way in enhancing your website, then what are you waiting for. Join hands with Righway Solutions. The company is equipped thoroughly for the task at hand, that is to expand and refine Drupal as per client requirements.

Drupal Development

No prizes for guessing, what’s the flavour of the season in corporate India. It is of course, offshore outsourcing. And with Drupal (Content Management System) spawning significant demand in the foreign shores, the Indian programmers are all-set to tackle the growing requirements and obviously the developers at Rightway Solution with strong domain knowledge. For the newbie’s on the block, Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and content management system which is used in the programming language PHP.

Though many Content Management Systems are available, the developers have taken a liking for Drupal, as its built-in functionality with add on modules, facilitates host of activities like,

  • Arranging the content,
  • Modifying its appearance,
  • Computerizing of the administrative tasks,
  • Managing site guests and contributors.
  • Forums
  • Peer to Peer networking
  • Newsletters
  • Podcasting
  • Picture galleries
  • File uploading and downloading

Being a sophisticated programming interface; most of the tasks can be achieved with small or no programming. In fact, scores of people and organizations have been using Drupal to power or say, support their web sites, including,

  • Community web portals
  • Discussion sites
  • Corporate web sites
  • Intranet applications
  • Personal web sites or blogs
  • Aficionado sites
  • E-commerce applications
  • Resource directories
  • Social Networking sites

It has been reported that from May 2006 to April 2007; Drupal was downloaded from the website more than 6, 00,000 times. A valid proof on the software’s growing popularity. Besides, Drupal software is free to download and use. So if your find that Drupal has all those critical characteristics that will go a long way in enhancing your website, then what are you waiting for. Join hands with Rightway Solutions. The company is equipped thoroughly for the task at hand, so to expand and refine Drupal as per client requirements.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Drupal Development

India is an offshore software development center, Drupal (Content Management System), PHP-MySQL development and open source programming center. New challenges are always accepted by well skilled web developers and programmers in India. They are also resolving them and moving ahead. Well skilled and expert developers, web designers, expert PHP developers have motivated in India especially in outsourcing development market.

Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and content management system which is written in the programming language PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor). Drupal word is translated from Dutch word “druppel” which means drop. Originally Drupal is written by Dries Buytaert as a Bulletin board system, Drupal became an open source project in 2001.

There are so many Content Management Systems available but Drupal is very famous and user friendly. Drupal gives the permission to the system controller to arrange the content, modify the appearance, computerize administrative tasks, and handle site guests and contributors. It is a very sophisticated programming interface; most of the tasks can be achieved with small or no programming. Drupal is also known for web application frameworks, as its abilities expand from content management to allowing a wide range of services and transactions. A large community helps develop Drupal, From May 2006 to April 2007; Drupal was downloaded from the website more than 6,00,000 times.

Drupal is environment friendly with all operating systems, runs very well with Apache and IIS server. MySQL or PostgreSQL is used to store the content to manage the Content Management System. The common features are available in default configuration which is great help to web developers, web designers. They can also extend the features by using plug-ins and add, edit and delete the content. Any audio or video files, content, electronic documents can be managed easily by the administrator.

Drupal’s modular design is praised by web administrators, designers and programmers as well. All functions and presentation can be added through pluggable modules and themes. It also presents with the facility to categorize the content, post and review the comments, custom search is also provided, develop multi-level menus, can dynamically contribute in forums, blogs, RSS feeds, grant user access and access control, caste polls, post new content, updated existing ones, can re-write search engine friendly URLs and generate the reports.

The community of Drupal has donated by giving many free modules which can be distributed among the Drupal and other users of the community. Successfully developed and mostly used modules include workflow features, organic groups, Google sitemap, e-commerce, photo galleries, and mailing list management.