Drupal Development Services
Contact us to discuss your Drupal application needs.
Drupal (see drupal.org) is a popular PHP-based open source content management platform. It is typically used for community-driven websites, and is capable of supporting some of the largest websites on the internet.
Art & Logic has experience building websites with Drupal, including the use of Drupal modules, themes, styles, and other aspects of this platform. Popular databases used with Drupal are MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Development Philosophy
With Drupal, web pages are not static but generated dynamically by querying the back-end databases for content. Almost everything that is displayed on a page is stored in the database. Below are some of the development philosophies associated with Drupal programming.
- Small core with powerful capabilities, and extensible through modules
- High coding standards
- Adherence to web standards
- Ease of use for developers, administrators, and users
- Emphasis on database query optimization in various ways
- Requires software that is open-source and widely available: Apache, PHP, MySQL or PostgreSQL
Tens of thousands of people and organizations use Drupal for many different kinds of websites, including: community web portals, discussion sites, corporate websites, intranet applications, personal websites or blogs, aficionado sites, e-commerce applications, resource directories, and social networking sites. Additionally, there are add-on modules available for content management systems, collaborative authoring environments, forums, peer-to-peer networking (P2P), newsletters, podcasting, photo galleries, and much more.
For more information, see the web applications section.
Free as in Freedom (and lower risk)
When Open Source developers talk about “free software” they are referring to freedom, not price. Put simply, Open Source software allows anyone to inspect and improve the source code. This process has resulted in highly reliable, secure, high-performance platforms on which to build web applications.
Choosing an Open Source platform for your application can lower your overall technology risk and reduce the cost of development and long-term maintenance. While independent software vendors are motivated primarily to generate a profit, Open Source developers tend to focus only on computing problems. Open Source software generally complies with industry standards and doesn’t carry the risk of “vendor lock-in” and forced upgrades by software vendors.
Throughout the last ten years, the Open Source developer community has produced many of the most trusted building blocks of the web. Apache, the Open Source web server, is used on two-thirds of all web sites. PHP, though a non-commercial product, is used on over 14 million web sites and is more popular than Microsoft’s competing solution.
Art & Logic recognizes that Open Source isn’t always the best solution. Contact us to talk about your project. We take a flexible approach to technology decisions by recommending Microsoft, Java, Oracle, WebObjects, and Open Source solutions on a case-by-case basis.
Our Role in the Open Source Community
Art & Logic is the official maintainer of the GoAhead WebServer project. GoAhead WebServer is the world’s most popular “embedded web server” and is used to build web-based control panels for low-power devices such as cable modems, PDA’s, and printers.
Recent Projects
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Learn more about our work.
Web Standards & Accessibility
Art & Logic’s web applications conform to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C.org) standards, ensuring interoperability with current and future web technologies. Our applications comply with government accessibility laws such as Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act as needed.
Long-Term Technology Relationships
Art & Logic takes a flexible, long-term approach to technology and design decisions. We use our knowledge of most major software technologies to help you choose the best platform for your application. If the right tools don’t exist, we can build them from scratch or assemble pre-existing components.
Of course, your long-term support plans, existing systems, schedule, and budget weigh heavily into these decisions. We take the time to get to know our clients and the business requirements for their software.
Learn more about advice and planning.
For more information, contact:
Bob Bajoras
Lead Engineer
Please use the become a client form to begin a discussion about your project.
