Importance Of Drupal Development

Drupal is one of the top and the right open source solutions and Content Management Framework. Though there are many open source solutions are available, Drupal has its own and unique features that helps to create your website for an ecommerce purpose as well. Drupal Development helps to meet your requirements even if it is for a small business or large scale business, personal websites, corporate website and many more. Drupal has been developed by Dries Buytaert and has been released in Jan 2001. In these days many Drupal developers are unsurpassed in providing the best Drupal site.

Drupal development has ample of features like easy web navigation, easy to use, easy to install, reliable, robust and efficient, abundant modules to improve the site’s functionality, flexibility and many more. To improve high functionality in Drupal there are various core modules and core themes are obtainable. With Drupal you could also able to create a gaming site rather than work, business and education purposes.

Joomla Vs Drupal

Flexibility & Power

Joomla can be made a flexible and Powerful framework with various modules or plugins supported. We can do Joomla Customization them according to our Needs, but Drupal has a Powerful Framework right out of the Box. Drupal has these Views, CCK and Panels that give a great advantage over any other CMS in here. It can be made even more flexible and Powerful with some additional modules to the Drupal Customization. Joomla Developers design and develop their own architecture and framework with very little flexibility that satisfies the requirement at that moment, but it’s not going to be a solution for Future Proofing. Hence Drupal has a better upper hand when it comes to Flexibility and Power.

Project Management Tool – An Overview

Software work are carried out in different parts of the world, but coordinated in a good fashion to make the software development a great success. While building the software projects, it must involve coordination, communication and control to achieve the objective. To remain focused on these 3C’s (coordination, communication and control), we have implemented a project tracking tool.

Usually, there is an artificial wall built between the developer who build the software and those who need it. Also, Project management seems to be complex process that requires understanding client needs and meeting their expectation in a timely manner. Project management includes Project Planning, designing, development and Testing. Project Plan includes the project goals, identifying the tasks to achieve the project goals, identifying the qualified resources, determine the timelines of completion.Even the smallest task can benefit from the use of a well-chosen project management technique or tool, especially in the planning stage.

Project designing includes creation of sample mock-ups and templates; Project development involves implementation and control to target the project plan. Testing includes evaluation of the project; assess the quality of activities and results obtained. There are many kinds of tools available in market. As a software developer company, we took initiative to develop our own Project Management tool using PHP/MySQL and we framed this tool based on our quality policy to achieve our mission and vision.This Project Management tool helps us to manage, schedule, discuss, work, resourcesand communicate within team members as well as with the client.

Highlights and Features of this Tool are listed below:

• User friendly and easy to us
• Simple online tool
• Schedule tasks and add to dos quickly
• Share files and messages
• Automatic email notification for every update
• Control access to restricted members
• Quick review on dashboard
• Manage permissions to individual projects
• Calendar view to schedule tasks
• Bug tracker included
• Manage projects, tasks and milestones
• Track time
• Flexible and feasible
• Custom tailored according to our requirement
• Password protected
• No formal training required

Avenir focus on 100% customer satisfaction on every work handled by us. Avenir knows to balance workloads, manage people, motivate team, thereby achieve effective and efficient work environment. This tool adds complement to our work strategy starting from project initiation to project completion.

The project management approach at Avenir helps us to manage, control and assure quality of our solutions and servicesto keep them among the best industry standards. Avenir Professionals are expertised in CMS for Drupal Support, Joomla Development, Magento Support, OsCommerce Customization, Wordpress Development and many more.

Drupal Development

Drupal is one of the Top Open Source Web Content Management System (WCMS) that allows either One or a Group of People to Manage or Publish various contents in a website. Drupal is developed in PHP and MySql database. Drupal is distributed under GNU General Public License.

Drupal Development Eases the work for users and manages to do complicated tasks. Drupal is designed to provide an easy way to manage the contents for users and admin. Drupal Core supports various features right out of the Box, On top of it Drupal Supports installing additional modules to its core. Almost all the features one would require can be already found developed as a module or can be easily developed into one. Drupal has about 11000 modules (as of July- 2011). Even these modules can be Drupal Customized to change the behavior and appearance according to users need.

Working with Drupal is very easy due to it’s simple and easy to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor allows for simple modifications. We can use Drupal Theming and Design beautiful websites. Drupal support can work as a backend framework for Small or a Large Corporate Web Applications Development.

Some of the New and Improved features in Drupal 7 are (For the Developers),

• Advanced WYSIWYG editor
• Fluid drag and drop for input format listings.
• Fluid drag and drop for language listing.
• Fluid drag and drop for poll options.
• Descriptions and English Names for user permissions.
• Built-in Automated Cron.php page
• Strong Password Framework
• Added Security feature, like prevention of Brute-Force Method, Flood Control API, and limiting User Access to Resources.
• Adding Content Type Screen
• “Input formats" renamed to "text formats".
• Field specially for Uploading Files
• Field specially for Uploading Images
• Performance lag fixed for uncached pages

Avenir has experienced Professionals for Drupal development and Drupal Support. We have specialized in creating a Custom Module, Drupal Theming - Develop a theme according to Clients requirement, Drupal Customization in Core and code our Own Filters. We have expertise in inner workings of each key part of Drupal like User Management, Sessions, the Node System, Integration of Ajax, Caching and including various Web Services & API integration into the Site. We recommended Drupal Application to our Clients in need of a Medium or Large sized Corporate Sites.