Social Media Applications Development using Drupal: The Advantages

John Wells Aug 9, 2012 · 2 min read

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Developing social media apps with the use of Drupal is all the rage these days. The obsession over social media is actually quite understandable, more especially given the situation where almost all business houses are looking at social networking websites as an extremely potent tool for marketing as well as advertising. Social media or SM is actually an excellent place wherein business enterprises and their customers directly communicate; such platform makes social media the most talk about issue inside company boardrooms. This realization has given birth to yet another trend and that is to provide SM friendly sites to end users. Drupal social media applications are actually the most sought after among them as they are the best not just for developing engaging websites, but enables fascinating features as well.

A number of the main advantages of creating social media apps using the Drupal platform are exemplified below;

– Drupal is actually a comprehensive CMS that comes together with separate web building tools for forums, blogs, Wikis and profile. This provides the perfect platform for dynamic interactions.

– Drupal is a free open source modular platform. This feature actually makes it a whole lot easier for anybody to freely access codes and also to modify or change them. You can acquire high dividends by forming a community of users and developers, so they can brainstorm and trade their ideas and thoughts.

– Drupal is a great hosting platform that is scalable. The technology that is Drupal development can easily run heavy and huge websites. So, you are able to add photos, newsletter, video files, audio files, articles, forums and many more, to your site in order to draw a bigger audience.

– Drupal is very search engine friendly. If in case what you are after is to attract more visitors into your online business site, then Drupal is the best platform for you. Drupal boasts of a selection of very search engine friendly features like URL, page title, and Meta Tags, among many others, in order to capture the fancy of different search engines. Also, you can have Google analytics integrated into your site, so you would be able to track down your website’s status.

– Drupal is very editable. It has all the edit, add, as well as modify content options, so you would be able to make alterations to all your web content in order to best accommodate the wants and needs of SM. Doing this does not call for any extensive web programming or designing skill.