One of the huge advantages of Drupal is that any data structure can be created quickly and easily in Drupal. Regardless of whether it is products, product groups, articles, news, events, conferences, blog posts – individual data structures can be created using the Drupal content types. Drupal is not just a database, it also allows you to work flexibly with this data. The keyword is content hub.
Advantage: Drupal is expandable
Thousands of additional modules are available at Main Website. These can be used with little to no programming effort. The Drupal interfaces (API) with customer-specific modules enable you to implement your specific requirements.
Advantage: Extreme scalability
Very large and heavily visited websites around the world use Drupal.
For example:
- www.teslamotors.com
- www.menshealth.com
- www.examiner.com
And: 72 of the top 100 universities too!
Advantage: Creating and editing content is easy.
The feedback from customers after the Drupal training is typically:
I would have thought it was more complicated.
But it is like this: Drupal is extremely easy to use.
Advantage: Drupal is mobile first
Drupal is compatible with all end devices, whether smartphones or tablets. Regardless of whether you have an iPhone, iPad, other tablet, Windows phone, Samsung etc., your website is display in a responsive design.
The administration is responsive and contains icons for faster recognition of the function. Another advantage is that tables are optimize for responsiveness. This means that the creation of responsive websites is virtually integrated. In addition, content can be edited efficiently on smartphones and tablets.
Advantage: search engine optimization / SEO
The websites create in Drupal are not only relatively easy to use, but are extremely SEO friendly, hence giving your website that extra dynamic.
Advantage: Security – Drupal is proven to be safe
A dedicate security team actively searches for and resolves any security gaps at any time.
Advantage: Site building is easier
Another advantage of Drupal 8 is that the Views module is include in the core. With views it is possible to create lists of all kinds. Another advantage is the block system, which was built from scratch and can be use very flexibly.
Advantage: Popular in the community
Thousands of developers worldwide develop Drupal. Thousands of “Drupalists” meet regularly at international conferences to advance the system.
Advantage: experience
Drupal has been around for over 20 years and has continue to develop during this time. The system is in use millions of times and is sometimes use by major brands such as Tesla Motors, Greenpeace, NBA, Twitter, eBay, Standford University, and McDonalds.
The widespread use enables rapid adaptation of new trends and requirements. This automatically benefits the entire community.
Advantage: Open Source = no license costs
Drupal is an open source development, so there are no license costs for you. Invest your budget in your specific extensions. You only pay for what you ask for.
Advantage: multilingualism
Drupal is multilingual from the installation. The basic language can be select during installation. The complete administration interface is multilingual. The “multilingual system” has also been revise. In Drupal8 everything is “translatable”.
Advantage: Configuration System
The Configuration System (CMI) is of particular interest to developers. This simplifies the development workflow in particular, as new configuration settings can be export to the code and thus to version control.
Advantage: HTML 5 and Twig
Drupal8 uses all the new possibilities of HTML 5. This makes it possible, for example, to preselect the keyboard layout when entering a smartphone. Twig is a modern template engine that is responsible for displaying the data. The advantage of Twig is that it is much easier for front-end developers and designers to work in the template.
Advantage: web services
A huge advantage of Drupal8 is the ability to provide content via an interface. The great thing about it is that you don’t have to make any additional developments, the interfaces are available immediately. This means that news content can be made available for a mobile app, for example.
Advantage 8: OOP code
Another advantage of Drupal8 is the separation from older PHP versions, i.e. php 4.x. Drupal8 uses new language concepts from PHP 5.4+ such as Dependency Incection or Traits. In addition, Drupal8 is now base on Symfony2 Components and other libraries such as PHP Unit, doctrine, backbone.js / underscore.js and Composer.
With Drupal you can create websites, web applications and apps very well. We have shown the advantages of Drupal in various blog posts:
Disadvantages of Drupal
Disadvantage 1: Drupal is open source
This can be seen as a disadvantage. There is no company behind but a huge developer community. But open source also has many advantages. Drupal is base on GPL-2, which means that you can use for free. This is a big advantage, especially for very large websites with many user logins.
Disadvantage 2: Major upgrades
Indeed, that is a weakness. If you want to upgrade Drupal5 to Drupal6 or Drupal6 to Drupal7 or Drupal7 to Drupal8, this is not possible automatically. This problem is regularly hotly discuss in Drupal forums. The explanation is: The web has developed a lot in the last 10 years. Therefore it was necessary to leave old approaches behind and to start with the next major release without “legacy”. This is a big advantage because you can use the latest technologies again. With powerful “migration scripts”, the content of the old page can be “copy” to the new page.
Disadvantage 3: learning curve
Drupal has its own approaches such as content, menu structures, blocks, teasers, etc. are use. Newcomers to it can quickly feel overwhelm. As with any system, the basic concepts need to be understand. Drupal is therefore often refer to as a “complicate” system. That may be true for newbies, but as a power user you really appreciate the flexibility and modularity of Drupal.
