Why Choose Drupal?

Drupal is often described as the "nerds CMS". The reason for this is the underlying code is fairly complex, but as with so many things, to make the user experience as easy as possible, the engine has to be fairly complex.

Drupal has made a name for itself for being extremely easy to customize, almost becoming a PHP Framework rather than a fully functioning CMS! It has become so successful that large sites like MTV.co.uk and TheOnion.com rely on Drupal to power their websites. The reason for this is that it has powerful social networking capabilities built in, along with excellent news / content management.

The biggest benefits of choosing Drupal are:

• It is free and licensed under the GPL/GNU license, meaning it costs nothing to develop and there are no license / royalty fees to pay for
• It is already heavily developed, and cuts months off the development time, which translates in to huge cost savings
• There is a huge amount of documentation so any programmer can jump straight in and start making modifications 

If you are looking to build a custom social network site, or some kind of community site or even a more advanced content management system, Drupal should definitely be on your list of considerations. Contact us and take advantage of our expertise on whether Drupal will be right for your project.

Some other benefits of Drupal include:

• Localized to dozens of different languages - real translations done by native language speaking people
• Will run on virtually any server setup, Linux and Windows
• Huge database of free plugins and themes to choose from, reducing your development costs
• Highly optimized for the search engines, so your sites can get better rankings in sites like Google, Yahoo and MSN
• Agriya has a lot of expertise developing websites based on Drupal