Search Engine Optimization (SEO) might not be the first thing you think of when designing a new website, but building an optimized framework from the start will help you drive traffic to your site and keep it there.

With our Drupal SEO checklist in hand, you can build an excellent website that draws customers in as soon as you launch. To give you a quick summary before we go into detail, here’s a bullet list of what to check before the launch day.

• Check that all web pages have unique titles using the Page Title module

Component-based design (CBD) is a cornerstone in building scalable, maintainable, and efficient modern websites. It's a transformative methodology that aligns with Drupal's modular architecture and positions Drupal theming philosophy amongst the most recent best practices in architecting user interfaces.

At Vardot, handling responsive images effectively has been one of the main challenges we faced when building Drupal websites using Varbase. Traditional methods like CSS, image styles, or even the modern Responsive Image modules often involve time-consuming, repetitive tasks, and a lot of manual adjustments to configure the responsiveness of images across the whole website.

If you're using Varbase, you're already benefiting from a powerful and feature-rich Drupal distribution. Varbase is designed to streamline your Drupal projects, making it easier to build websites and web applications with all the essential tools and modules preconfigured. However, one of the most exciting aspects of Varbase is the flexibility it offers when it comes to theming.

Nowadays, NGOs and nonprofits need as much exposure as they can get. The days of local advertisements are beginning to wane. We are now in the digital age. The era of online and the Internet.

The role of marketers has evolved beyond simply managing and coordinating online advertising campaigns to drive traffic to their respective websites; successful marketers must transform themselves to become storytellers.

Storytelling is an essential skill to master the art of crafting a digital experience for your digital business would-be customers and users. 

Therefore, as a digital business, you must be strategic when it comes to choosing the appropriate platform for your digital experience. 

Despite all the disruption and technological advances that occurred over the past few years, the structure of higher education institutions and the state of academic curriculums are closer to what would be the case during the early stages of industrialization.

Drupal continues to grow in popularity every day. Many users opt to adopt a Drupal distribution: a full copy of Drupal along with additional software. In general, you will see two types of Drupal distributions. Complete solutions, otherwise known as full-featured distributions, and quick-start tools.

Editor’s Note -- This article was formerly listed as the Top 10 Websites Built with Drupal, and based on TopDrops.org. That site has since stopped updating, so we decided to pivot towards a new kind of value for our readers: the most surprising examples of Drupal-run sites.

Some of the world’s most influential businesses and organizations run their websites using Drupal: General Electric, eBay, The Economist, etc.

When you’re looking for a Drupal Commerce developer, what exactly are you looking for? A lot hangs on this question. We’ve encountered some, let us say, “creative” implementations that painted the business into a corner or wasted a lot of time and money.

E-commerce websites are often mission-critical, and Drupal Commerce reliably powers $100s of millions in revenue per year, but an inexperienced developer can inadvertently introduce unnecessary risk. A mission-critical website needs experienced hands. Someone who can navigate the intersection of technical architecture and business logic that defines successful ecommerce implementations.

So what makes a good Drupal Commerce developer? What should you look for and what should you expect?

Drupal Mastery

At its core, Drupal Commerce is simply an arrangement of Drupal's core building blocks—entities, fields, configuration objects, views, and forms. But "simply" doesn't mean "easy." A developer needs intermediate to advanced PHP skills and must understand Drupal's architectural patterns deeply enough to know which tool fits which job. They also need to be familiar with Drupal.org and the ecosystem of contributed modules so they don’t go off half-cocked and decide to reinvent the wheel.

Why is this important? When a developer reads about creating a custom price calculation, they will learn about the system of price resolvers, which are services sorted by weight. A qualified developer immediately understands what a service is, how to define one, and how Drupal's dependency injection system will execute their code at the right moment. Without this foundational knowledge, they'll be copying and pasting code without understanding the underlying architecture. When bugs appear, they won’t know where to look to solve them.

The developer should also master essential development disciplines: