Business Website Design and Development

With all businesses moving onto the internet to give themselves exposure into new markets they need online software that gives them functionality, flexibility and standardization. This can become an issue when they don't make good strategic decisions when first implementing their online plan. An example of this was a potential client had build their whole online presence inside a CMS that was built ten years ago. Because the agency that had constructed it had not kept up with the times, new functionality that the client needed had not been developed so they started looking at other frameworks to fit their needs. But what they did not know is that they could not get access to information they had created and hence this business was locked in so the data could not be moved. This sort of thing is not an isolated case when Content Management Systems were first created everyone was in a similar position.

Professional website design & development is better

Everyone designing and developing their own CMS soon stopped the reasons are many but one factor is the internet allows for good collaboration and developers began to share. From this ethos projects like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal were created. These Content Management Systems are the backbone of the internet and all have an area of expertise that they excel in. Drupal because of its flexible and secure nature can be used for small business through to the enterprise market. Companies are starting to see that these frameworks are the way of the future. They are either implementing them or assisting the development of the software in a collaborative way with the rest of the internet. The reasons are lower overheads and they create a professional website design. The reasons why we use Drupal in this market are many, below is a small example.

Reasons Business Should use Drupal

• Highly flexible and modular framework
• Drupal has a great security model
• It constantly keeps up with new innovation
• Backed and supported by big business
• Businesses can add their own functionality
• Built and designed so it can scale quickly
• Security updates are free and easily deployed
• Business own their data it is not locked up in propriety software
• Corporations are not dependent on one website design agency

Drupal innovation also has distributions

How long does it take a website agency to install website software with the following functionality blog, shop, website, and user access so that the website owner can add new items to their shop with relative ease? With Drupals distribution systems it does not take long at all. What is a distribution? It is prepackaged software built with Drupal modules with a specific role in mind. It can be a shop, blog, standard website. What it allows the developer to do is deploy any type of website quickly and work more on the functionality like Social Media, populating the website with data or better graphics. This method is amazing. what once was a very complicated process is now very simple. These packages still have all of the Drupal goodness but deployment is quick and painless (to know more go to Drupal Distrowatch).

If you wold like to now how your business can get access to the tools of the future and create a website or online web application we will be happy to help with any question contact us.