Drupal for Small Sites??? HELL YES!

Drupal is more and more becoming a solution only for larger sites. This is especially evident in Drupal 8, and it seems commonly accepted that Drupal is no longer a viable solution for small sites. We’ve seen this through increases in cost estimates, timelines, features lists, and server requirements. Unfortunately, this situation was forcing us to leave a lot of potential work on the table (or was pushing us to Wordpress), and we felt that our clients with smaller budgets could really benefit from having an efficient, out-of-the-box Drupal 8 solution.

Our solution was to create a small site build for these clients that would have a lot of the needed functionality already installed, configured, and ready-to-go during the initial installation process. This meant our client’s money was freed up to be used on custom add-ons, design changes, and other things that they would not be able to afford before.

This session will take you through our high-level decision process of what was included in the small site and what wasn’t. We will go through the build process of how we put this together as a team for the initial build of the project, the set up of the installation process to spin up new sites, theming decisions we made, and how we are using this to efficiently build feature-rich sites for small clients and making it profitable.