Learn About Drupal And Content Management System With Deren Hawking
We are delighted to get a chance to have a word with one of the most eligible SEO experts in the world who has great experience about Drupal and how it works, Deren Hawking. He is probably the best person who has written many books on topics like Drupal, CMS, SEO, Blogging that helped lot of bloggers and webmeisters.
We asked a few questions from Deren about his blog on Drupal, SEO and content management systems.
Q. Why did you select Drupal for your site? Do you feel that it is better than the Joomla and WordPress?
Deren Hawking- I always wanted to create a membership website which I can customize according to my needs and requisites. I wanted to add lot of features in my site. I want to customize my website in such a manner that some of its content is fully available for public while some of the content is only partially available and only the registered members can see the full post.
What I feel is that Drupal is much more endeavor class than WordPress or any other portal is. I think that the main programmer of Drupal has done extensive and excellent job.
Drupal is an excellent web application framework used by thousands of individuals, education businesses, government, non-profits, and other organizations all over the world for creating personal and business websites, social networking sites, E-commerce sites and much more.
Q. According to you what are the best modules one must use in the Drupal.
Deren Hawking – Drupal vB, FlashVideo, nodewords, jRating, page title, pathauto, autoresponder custom error, review, books,and premium are some of the best modules. I have used them all in my site.
Q. Now that your site in live for long time, are you still happy with the Drupal of feel sometimes that it was a wrong decision.
Deren Hawking- Right from the day I installed Drupal on my website, I am happy to work with it. It is very easy to work upon and also we get the clean URLs in Drupal. The page load time is good and even in the high traffic load the site opens swiftly. Thus I can say that I am very happy to install and use Drupal for my site rather than using any other portals. All the modules are set properly and my site if doing well.
Q. Now let’s focus on the content managing system. Are you happy using the CMS, is it good from the SEO point of view?
Deren Hawking- Yes, I do. To make a website successful, you need to interact well with the users and customers. If you have an e commerce website you have to pay attention on the reviews and feedbacks of the customers. You also need to push out the product news in such a way that the readers and viewers some to your website and subscribe. If you are not using Content Management System, you are actually lacking of the advantages.
By using the content management system you get bug fixe and real world testing for free and also the thousands of free hours of programming. The best part about using CMS is that you can build the best from the scratch. The CMS allow you to interact with the site in many different ways. It provides a graphical user interface which helps the editor to add multimedia file, images and to create content scheduling and much more. The best part is that it is designed particularly for authors having an average knowledge of processing content in their website. They don’.t need to know the HTML technicalities to work with CMS.
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