Frequently Asked Questions - Drupal CMS

Our Drupal implementations include a Content Management System with NO LIMITS on the number of pages that you can have. We believe that a successful business needs to be able to regularly add more content to their site, so we give our clients an unlimited number of pages and other forms of content.

Absolutely. Our Drupal implementations are very secure.

First, Drupal itself is an extremely safe and secure platform. If a visitor attempts to access a file or folder within your installation directly, Drupal will not allow it, and instead will present them with a custom Drupal page or search.

Drupal data is stored in a secure MySQL database that we set up with strong passwords, and verify that the hosting account you're using is also secure.

Finally, steps are taken during development to further secure the site. For instance, visitors to your site will never have access to place HTML or PHP or other code into a form field or other input area. Any input areas for visitors are stricly plain text, which means they can enter comments and information, but that's it.

Our clients are also advised to notify us when new releases and security patches are available for their installation (based on messages received from their site), or to sign up for a monthly maintenance program in which we would take care of any releases automatically.

Absolutely! Every Drupal implementation includes social media integration. This includes:

• Site-wide connect buttons to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flckr, LinkedIn, MySpace, iTunes, and others.
• Content-specific buttons for your visitors to share your content with their network including sites like DiGG, StumbleUpon, Google and others.
• Automatic RSS feeds from your site can automatically update your Facebook and Twitter accounts with links to new content.
• Other options available, including Facebook Connect, Like and Tweet widgets, and more.

The following Search Engine Optimization services are included with every Drupal CMS implementation:

• Keyword Analysis
• Targeted Keyword Consulting
• Complete Sitewide Meta Tags
• Customizable per-page Meta Tags
• Customizable ALT and TITLE tags for all images
• Automatic cross-linking of content with tags/taxonomy
• Automatic XML Sitemap that self-updates and notifiies Google and Bing of new content
• Search Engine-friendly automatic URLs
• Search Engine-friendly HTML and CSS markup
• Submission to over 100 search engines and directories.
• Manual submission to Google, Yahoo, Bing and DMOZ

Of course. Not only do we provide our clients with complete administrative access to their new site, but all normal tasks are fully documented.

We have standard online documentation here, which covers the basics for all of our Drupal CMS implementations. That is then supplemented via email with additional documentation specific to your unique site. Instant Message and Phone training is available upon request.

The short answer: Absolutely!

Every CMS that we build supports embedding of images using an advanced Image Management system that gives you the ability to resize, add borders, white space, and even set up mouseover effects.

Audio and Video support can be added upon request as well. Typically, Video is supported via YouTube. YouTube provides transcoding and streaming for you, and all you have to do is paste a link to the YouTube video into your content. The CMS will automatically convert that link into an embedded player.

If hosting of the video is required, advanced transcoding and streaming technology can be added to your site.

For more information on how your new site might use multimedia, please contact us!

We build current sites using the Drupal 6.x platform, currently at 6.24.

We do not build any sites using 5.x, but do support legacy sites built on that version of Drupal, and can also upgrade those sites to 6.x.

We are not yet building new sites using 7.x, but we are constantly monitoring the status of our required contributed modules. In order to provide all of the features of our standard installations, and in order to ensure that most feature requests will be possible, all of the necessary contributed modules must be 7.x compatible. We expect that at some point in 2012, we will be able to successfully transition to utilzation of the 7.x platform on all new production sites.

Clients wishing to proceed with a 7.x installation, or upgrade to 7.x from 6.x, can discuss their specific project and details with us and arrangements may be possible if the modules we'll need are available and fully tested.