The conversion of our corporate site from a traditional Dreamweaver/template based website to one based on Drupal, is now complete, and what a powerful tool it is too.  Having done the groundwork, we can go from a paper design to a framework site in record time. 

This was actually quite a challenging site, which required technology that we hadn't used in Drupal before.  As is often the case with Drupal, the Open Source Community came to the rescue and a module was available which provided 95% of the functionality we required, leaving only a tiny amount of Drupal development work left to do by us. 

What's more Drupal allows us to separate out the Design functionality from the Content of the site.  So that whereas before anything more than trivial changes to the site content, required the time of our designers and developers.  Now changes can be made by anyone, without the danger of breaking the site.  With a minimum of knowledge of how drupal works, a novice can even create new pages. 

Add to that the impressive way that technology can be dropped into Drupal, and as if by magic we have Blog capabilities, Dedicated Flash Pages and a design that will automatically restyle to support one column or two columns of text on a page. 

Should our PR team decide that the site needs a refresh, what would have been a multi-week project to redesign and restructure the site, could now be done in days, with a minimum of effort. 

Simon