Kansas City Drupalizer

Problem: A good CMS is hard to find.
DotNetNuke, Joomla, even Wordpress - a lot of web developers are experimenting with different content management systems, and are trying to figure out which one is right for them and their business. Some folks buy a costly CMS that they have limited control over or have to hack to high heavens to get it to work for their business. Some program their own custom CMS, which is great. However, the reality is that some people just don't have the money to buy a CMS or the programming knowledge or resources to do build (or hack) their own.

Solution: Become a Drupalizer!
I was introduced to an open source CMS a while back by the name of Drupal, and I can now say I am a Kansas City Drupalizer. Sites I am building, and future sites I will build will be built using Drupal (that I want to be large, informative, and in it for the long haul).

From a functionality standpoint, you can honestly do just about anything using Drupal - the organization is great and the SEO friendliness is spectacular. The URLs are clean, and you can download many different modules to get what you want done: ratings, user profiles that include social media profiles, blogs, and you don't have to have a vast knowledge of PHP to implement them.

Drupal is being used on many different web sites on the web, from the fake news site The Onion to Aaron Wall at SEO Book to the local Kansas City SEO club, different sites all over the world are taking Drupal and running with it...

Do you have different people working on the same web site? Have a Web Engineer build the site, and they won't have to touch it again unless you want to make structural changes to the code. Modules are available to upload different content types, pictures, blogs, even title and meta tags!

Just like any CMS, it takes a little doing to build a nice site and use all of the functionality of Drupal, but if you can learn it, your web site, users and business will be better off.

Here's to being a Kansas City Drupalizer!

I'm always up for trying new things, so if anyone is using any other CMS's and has been successful (or unsuccessful) - open source or not, let me know!