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DRUPAL 8 NEWS:
Uses Symfony2 framework
OOP access are integrated into the core
REST web service
PHPunit tests
Smaller Drupal´s core, division of some modules
Native responsive design
HTML 5 structure
Better partition of configuration data and other content
Superior user interface
Modularity is the greatest advantage of Drupal. It is very flexible system. Thanks to the large community and GPL GNU licence, it is possible to use extended collections of available tested modules.
You surely know it. You see the code created by your predecessor and after the first attempt to understand it, you get desperate. Drupal´s developers fight against such “creativity” by using Code Standards. They assembled series of important rules for the right syntax and good readability of the code. More on: https://drupal.org/coding-standards
To operate Drupal you will need web and d-base server. Both of these can be an open source, there is no need to buy any licence. The minimum for Drupal is PHP 5.2.5 (5.3 recommended), the minimum for Drupal 8 5.H version. Drupal cooperates with d-base MySQ(5.0.15 or higher, Postre SQL 8.3 or higher, SQ Life 3.3.7 or higher, Microsoft SQL server or Oracle are supported by additional modules.
Media rule the world and Drupal rules the media! Creating galleries, pictures editing, drag and drop recording, inserting videos from various providers, audio recorders, exports to RSS, even the Internet radio broadcast module. Add the cooperation with social nets, content evaluation modules and you can create your own media portal using Drupal. Drupal is really good at that!
Nobody likes waiting for page to load. It is the rule - the slower web, the lower profit. There are many procedures to speed up web loading. One of them is to buy a high-performance iron. If you use Drupal, the problem can be solved at much lower costs. Our specialists are able to set up systems of caching of web content more effectively so you would have no need to buy other systems. Drupal supports Content Delivery Network (CDN) caching of the state content or aggregating JAVA SCRIPT and CSS files.
Web without visitors - that is nonsense. Drupal has many tools to support the searchability of the site. For example: automatic generation of supporting attributes, URL address, meta tags, canonical URL, subtitles. Of course, we provide the correct semantics of websites. Advanced users can play with the SEO set up of websites with news or with various rules for different languages versions.
You will save money with Drupal. Its license is totally free of charge. Besides that an optimizing performance requirements is also pretty easy. Professional publication has never been as achievable as with Drupal.
Drupal understands that companies, which have ambitions to conquer foreign markets, need to have multilingual web pages. Appropriate modules for multilingual versions are established. Editors just write the content in the original language, click the “Translate” button, and they don't need to concern about anything else. If your editors work all over the world, it is possible to use the administration line. There are specific rules for SEO generation (depending on the language), important in particular language. These are very useful.
