Well, you name it! Drupal is a CMS as well as a PHP Framework that allows one to build most complex, elegant, scalable, and flexible web applications to extend your business, cause, or service. Drupal can provide:

• E-commerce
• News publishing
• Workflow Management
• Corporate sites
• Personal sites
• Campaigns, surveys, and much more

Almost anything on the web can be done if the process is correct. Working with a massive system such as Drupal is a tricky task. One has to balance meticulously between utilizing existing modules as much as possible while ensuring that no module is underused and is burden to the server. The approach we follow is tested and proven, and leverages the power of Drupal optimally.

Knowing what you want
Well, this might sound redundant as it is the most obvious step. However, it’s important to understand the requirements with Drupal in perspective all through. Keeping in mind the Drupal architecture will allow the requirements gathering process to be more open to come up with a good architecture solution. Once the architecture is designed correctly, rest of it is a cake walk to a Drupal developer.

Architecture Design
Based on the requirements, architecture will be designed that will provide guidelines to set up Drupal with configurations that best suit the requirements. The right architecture design tells about the various content types required, content fields, display formats, their interaction with each other, etc. It will provide the foundation for module identification and deployment. This ensures that proper modeling is done which will optimally address the current business needs as well as allow future expansion.

The Development Process

• Identify all the features that can be rendered using Drupal’s out of box features
• Use contributed modules where they fit in
• Develop custom modules and customize the templates to provide all features and design elements
• Testing, bug-fixing, and lauch!