Drupal, the AMP-based CMS, has been used as back-end system for 1.5% of all the Websites running worldwide. These include government Websites, political sites, and corporate Websites. Twitter has recently switched to Drupal for its Developer Website. There are 10,500 free and extendable modules are available in Drupal community. In this write up, we will have a look on the different types of Websites running on it. You can have a look on them and think why to use Drupal to run your own Website.
Blogs
Blog is a blend term of Web log and it indicates the personalization of an author with his/her readers. Drupal is considered to be more difficult than others when it comes to setup a blog. However, Drupal has more features than any other CMS presented in the market to help you in establishing a fully-featured and secured blog. Following are two blog Websites running on Drupal:
Nimbu Pani
A Simple Blog running on drupal – NimbuPani.com
Wise Bread
WiseBread.com a fully featured blog network on Drupal
News Portal
News Portal takes a long time to get success in the online market, but when they are successful their visitors’ rate is more than other Websites. Drupal has the capability to handle the continuously increasing traffic with its sophisticated architecture. That’s why The New York Observer runs its Website on Drupal.
ABC CBN
ABC CBN News Website Drupal
Blottr
Blottr News Website is also established on Drupal
Online Magazines
Like News Portal, Online Magazines needs better traffic handling, more security, and a lot of add-ons. Following are two popular magazines running on Drupal:
Open Magazine
Open World Magazine on Drupal
Stand Point
Stand Point Magazine on Drupal
Ecommerce Website
Although Drupal does not come preinstalled with a shopping cart yet it has always opened its doors to integrate any other cart either it is open-source or a paid one. One can easily integrate Ubercart with Drupal and setup an ecommerce Website.
Cargoh
An ecommerce Website running on Drupal
JCK Trade
A localized ecommerce Website based on Drupal
Educational Sites
Drupal offers one-stop solution to the educational sites with its advanced framework and open-source nature. The Institutes and Universities can use this CMS to run their Web-based and local-hosted Intranet Sites. Following
DATC
Davis Applied Technology College runs its Website on Drupal
Portland State University
Portland State University Website on Drupal
Music Sites
One can modify the Drupal default framework and host a music hosting Website on it. Following are two famous examples:
MTV UK
MTV UK Website is running on Drupal
Warner Bros. Records
Photo Blog
A photo blog is not ordinary Website instead it is an artistic piece by its owner or designer. Give shape to your imagination by employing Drupal to create your photo blog.
MyFinePix
MyFinePix is a nice example of both a Photoblog and an Image sharing Website from Fujifilm. Yes, it is powered with Drupal.
MyFinePix.com is running on Drupal and has a Photoblog section too
Social Networking
You can also use Drupal to run a social networking Websites. Let have a look on two great examples.
Going on
Goingon, a social network Website, powered by Drupal
Design Bump
Design Bump on Drupal
Community Websites
If there are Social Sharing Websites then why not to include the Community Websites running on Drupal. Here are two of them.
GujjuWeb
Gujjuweb, a community Website of Gujarati People on Drupal
Developers’ Portal
Drupal is the first choice of the developers when they have to select a CMS. The famous developer communities like Twitter Developers, AOL Developers, Symantec Connect, BrightCove Developers, and DivX Labs. Let us have a look on them one by one.
Twitter Developers
Twitter Developers are now on Drupal
Symantec Connect
Symantec Connect, its blogger network, and Developer Platform are on Drupal
BrightCove Developers
Eye-catchy Developer Platform of BrightCove is running on Drupal
DivX Labs
DivX Labs Developer Community also employs Drupal
Corporate Websites
The Corporate Websites often ask for a CMS, which offers more security and features than others. Why not to give a try to Drupal?
Intel
Intel Corporation is using Drupal for its AppUp Developer Program Website
AT&T
AT&T is also using Drupal for its Apps-beta Website
Governmental Websites
Why will Government Agencies stay behind on using Drupal? The world-famous White House runs its own Website on Drupal. They have also donated the modified source code to Drupal.org for more features.
White House
WhiteHouse also considers Drupal to run its Website
Data.gov.uk
UK Government also considers Drupal to run their Data.gov.uk Website
Conclusion
After seeing above examples, one should consider Drupal to run his/her Website on it. The open-source nature of Drupal and its sophisticated structure provides a secured, expandable, and feature-rich environment to us. We invite our readers to share their thoughts about Drupal and their experience on it.
I tend o favour WordPress … any tips on how to convert to Drupal?
WoW, great sites, i`ll agree – drupal is a great CMS, but its not a good idea if you` are not familiar with programming, that`s why the most popular cms is wordpress
I have not used Drupal myself before, but would certainly consider using it on future websites after seeing the results.
Im one of these developers that use wordpress a lot but to be honest ive been getting a lot of interest from drupal over the last few months. I just find the cms system a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Anyone else feel the same?
Great post, thanks for the Drupal collection.
Much appreciated
John
Impressive idea to use your psd layout into drupal themes. This is such a great way to make your website unique with so many useful features.
the above examples have forced me to rethink about drupal as a cms for my websites. I will surely try drupal now.
Nice one!
Its so different
Thanks
I’m starting to see Drupal pop up all over the place. It looks great but I’m still not convinced it beats WP. The huge, committed community behind WordPress sells it for me. Still, could be worth getting in to.
drupal is easy to implement, i love to use drupal my every website development..
I have to admit, when it comes to open source CMS’ I do love Drupal, we have found that more recently, the demand from our client’s for WordPress is on the increase, each to their own eh?
Great blog! Impressive!