Drupal for small business

Drupal for Small Business

Small Business
5 -10 Employee
No or less than two employee for IT
No prior experience in building website
Need for a online client communication
Limited budget for IT
Need for a web tool for expanding client
Minimal budget for online presence

A Genuine Need
Need a website but …….
Low cost
Zero Software Licensing
No Vendor locking
Self Managed
Empowered with social networking
Viral publicity
Plus cool features

Cool features ?
A website for branding ?
Capability of initial contact and information ?
Online brochure for products & Services ?
Content changes frequently ?
Images changes but less frequently ?
In-house content management ?
Freedom from vendor locking ?
Some fuzzy stuff…… ????

What’s your need
Do something and I will change……..
Omm …. I need all
JUST WONT WORK
Identify the key features
Plan it
Start developing it in phases

SMB Website Key features
About
Products/Services
Portfolio
News
Events
Photo Gallery
Blog
Contact
Social Sharing
E-Commerce

Drupal
Open Source
Zero licensing cost
No vendor locking
Runs on low cost web infrastructure
Scale as you go
Easy to manage content (whyswyg editor)
SEO friendly
E-commerce ready

Drupal Architecture

Drupal Advantage
Open source CMS
Proven track records
Huge developer base and community
Drupal is scalable
0ver 4000 contributed pluggable modules
Extendable to fulfill specific needs
High Performance
Built-in cacheing
Cloud ready
Social Networking ready
SEO Ready
Out-of-the-box modules for Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc.
Rich Documentation
Major features out-of-the-box
Taxonomy
User registration and profiles
Role based Work-flow management
Content Syndication via RSS
Browser based administration
Google Analytics, Apps etc..

Planning Drupal App
Identify your features
Identify you 1 st year Infrastructure Requirement
Plan your development phases
Choose to go with Dev > Stage > Deploy
Scrum as development process
Define Communication protocol
Define issue tracking software and process
Roll out the plan

Drupal for small business

by Gdzine Net on Jun 26, 2010

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