Drupal Development

Himerus Inc. has been developing Drupal websites for the past year, and have quickly converted to the Drupal revolution to handle a majority of our projects. Drupal is a very well thought out and extensible content management system originially created by Dries Buytaert. Since it's creation, it has recieved huge attention from the web development community, and has quickly positioned itself as one of, if not the best open source content management system.

Drupal has a large community of developers that continue to expand the feature set of Drupal by using the advanced module system that Drupal implements, which allows a developer to modify the functionality or presentation of the site without "hacking" the core files, which is a deadly sin among web developers, as hacking core files on a open source project make future security and feature updates impossible without re-implementing those hacked changes again into a newer version.

By using a system as flexible as Drupal, this allows us to spend more time on what is truly the most important part of a project, and that is the user interface elements, and incorporating the design into a proper theme that will be cross browser compatible, and work well for any user who happens upon the site.

From Drupal.org:

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

Community web portals

Discussion sites

Corporate web sites

Intranet applications

Personal web sites or blogs

Aficionado sites

E-commerce applications

Resource directories

Social Networking sites

Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. It even has an easy-to-use web installer! The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:

Content Management Systems

Blogs

Collaborative authoring environments

Forums

Peer-to-peer networking

Newsletters

Podcasting

Picture galleries

File uploads and downloads

and much more.

Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. If you like what Drupal promises for you, please work with us to expand and refine Drupal to suit your specific needs.