Drupal Soars

After working overseas for a year on Yodigo, one message that is coming in loud and clear now that I'm back in Toronto in the office responding to new and existing client enquiries, is that the content management system Drupal has reached and gone past the so called tipping point. A communication specialist for one of the largest Canadian unions contacted me, and said that they had decided to convert all their web properties to Drupal. The administrator of a small CUPE local in Toronto had just come back from a gathering in San Francisco of labour union staff, and Drupal was the solution recommended. A woman working in a library in the North even managed to download and install Drupal on her Windows laptop, and was able to start mocking up her new site. When the likes of austere Foreign Affairs magazine chooses Drupal to build their site, and publishers start pumping out not just one but a whole series of Drupal guide books, you know that the battle between Mambo, Xaraya, Plone (competing content management / site development platforms) and Drupal is over.

It was over five years ago that the staff at Web Networks made the decision to start using Drupal when we built a new site for the federal NDP. This week we launched a huge site for the Toronto School of Theology, which joins the parade of other significant large projects we've pulled off for the United Church of Canada, Toronto Community Housing, and Pro Bono Student Canada.

We're happy to work with you if you want support in "rolling your own" Drupal site, or you'd like us to work with you in figuring out how Drupal can meet your own needs. Send me an e-mail with what's on your mind!

Cheers

Oliver Zielke

Executive Director

***UPDATE November 2009***

 The latest addition to the Drupal family of sites is none other than President Barack Obama's own White House website! More about this decision on Drupal founder Dries Buytaert's blog.