Drupal development
Drupal 8 is a top platform for building large websites and web applications. Drupal 8 is a flexible system based on state-of-the-art technologies, such as Symfony and Twig framework components.
New functionalities, which are constantly added to the framework, as well as its security and a large community of Drupal users and developers are its great advantage compared to other systems. That's why we have been building websites using Drupal since 2008!
Droptica is a Drupal development company
We built Droptica's team around Drupal. Our goal is not only to create websites based on Drupal but also to do it right. Droptica’s processes are focused on the advantage of automation when building Drupal-based systems.
We have been using Drupal for over ten years now, and we built our first systems based on Drupal 8 at the end of 2015. c and we love building websites using Drupal, because thanks to that, we can provide our customers with a lot of value at an affordable price. Drupal gives this possibility thanks to a huge number of turnkey components.
Experience since 2008 in concrete examples
We have built hundreds of websites based on Drupal, and while many of them were rather small ones, what we love doing the most are large websites and that’s what we are the best at. Our working model ensures efficient delivery of large systems. You can explore our most interesting projects below.
Drupal is a large ecosystem, and we can help with many of its aspects
Today, Drupal is far more than just a tool for building a small company website. It is also one of the basic sales and marketing systems, often even the most important system in a company. Drupal successfully performs the tasks of an e-commerce platform or a system for delivering large amounts of content to many users or external systems. It is also perfect for dedicated internal systems such as CRM, document circulation and intranet systems.
Website building
When planning a new website, you consider the available technological solutions. First and foremost, you want a proven system that will be developed over the next few years. Price can be also a great advantage, and in the case of Drupal, you don’t have to pay a penny. Drupal is an Open Source system, which means that you do not have to pay any license fees for using the system.
By choosing a website based on Drupal 8 and built by Droptica, you choose a proven system and a proven team: A team that has been using Drupal for over ten years. A team that likes developing Drupal-based systems. A team that is active in the Drupal community. A team that will lead the project to the end. One could say that we are the Drupal Company.
We will help you go through all the stages of building a website – not only programming but also graphic design, architecture planning, testing, performance optimisation, hosting and post-implementation support.
Development of existing systems
Do you have a Drupal-based website and need Drupal developers to develop it further? We will help you! A large part of our clients came to us with an already existing website or application based on Drupal. They needed a solid team that would help them continuously develop their system. At Droptica, we do it perfectly.
Since 2008, we have built many websites for companies representing a broad range of industries. We are able to quickly find ourselves in a new project and start delivering new functionalities. Our team does not need much time to understand a system built by other developers, since years of experience have taught us what to expect and how to develop systems that just work.
We automate a lot. We will automate the process of pushing new versions to the production servers and the testing process. Thanks to this, we will be able to deliver new functionalities without breaking other parts of the system or interrupting its operation.
Migration to Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is a revolutionary system and a big step forward in Drupal's development. If you want to migrate your Drupal 6 or 7-based website to Drupal 8, we will help you! We have carried out many data migrations, the majority of which were databases with several hundred thousand records concerning content and users. We are not afraid of big numbers, but we can also migrate to smaller systems.
While migrating to Drupal 8, we can also improve the system and its data structures, or add new functionalities, and do everything in our power to make it fit even better for business purposes.
We can also migrate to Drupal from other systems, as well as from older Drupal 6 and Drupal 7-based websites.
New graphic design, new Drupal templates
Users dislike non-intuitive or ugly websites. Appearance is very important because it determines whether you can win over new customers. At Droptica, we put a lot of emphasis on user experience and design. We help our clients develop systems that are rock-solid, beautiful and useful at the same time.
If you think that your website needs a new look, feel free to contact us. We create graphics and templates for Drupal 7 and 8. We use Bootstrap 4, Twig, SCSS and other state-of-the-art technologies.
Drupal modules. Integrating Drupal with external systems
Do you develop a Drupal website yourself, but you need a more complex module that nobody has developed yet? Not an issue! The Droptica team will help you even with the most complex modules. If it can be coded in PHP, we can do it!
Do you need integration with an external system? Come to us! We have integrated more than 80 different systems using REST/JSON, XML, XML-RPC, Soap, and many more technologies. We connected Drupal with mobile applications as well as ERP and CRM systems. In addition, we have connected Drupal to devices based on Linux and Android.
Complex Drupal modules are a challenge that we are happy to take up.
Drupal performance optimisation
Data structures that are too complex, incorrect configuration of the system or your server may cause Drupal’s performance to tank. If you are dealing with this issue, we have a solution – our team at Droptica, which specialises in speeding up Drupal-based websites. By using NewRelic and Blackfire logs, we discover performance problems in the tested systems, and then present a proposal on how to solve them.
Contact us if your Drupal-based system is running slowly and you want to speed it up
Drupal SEO audit
Most of the traffic on every website comes from Google Search, that is why it is very important to work on SEO for your website. If you want your business to grow, you need to have a well-optimised service.
At Droptica, we have extensive experience in SEO. We are constantly monitoring trends and changes in algorithms, and we are able to perform extensive SEO services for Drupal. We can also implement recommendations based on results.
Drupal code audit
Drupal has a great potential, which makes it a great system. Sometimes, however, it allows too much and the quality of code in some Drupal modules leaves much to be desired. If you aren’t certain, you can order a code audit carried out by our experts.
Code review is a standard process in our work, we do it in every project. We can also review the code in your system, point out the potential opportunities for improving quality, speeding it up or improving its security.
Do you want to see what can be improved in your Drupal code? Contact us!
Droptica – Drupal projects in numbers
See the figures below to see what kind of systems we developed in Drupal to date. We are involved in the development of a number of large applications. The figures below – or larger ones – are hardly an insurmountable challenge for us. We are also happy to implement smaller-scale projects in which we can share our experience gathered by building more extensive systems.
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Our clients are happy to talk about us
Our clients are our partners, and we pursue their business goals together. We do far more than just software development – we also plan long-term goals and the architecture of Drupal-based (and other) systems, recommend good solutions and reject ideas that do not benefit the business.
We want our cooperation with our clients to last as long as possible, which is why we are committed to developing their systems in the right direction.
The feedback of one of our clients confirms this:
We established cooperation with Droptica around two years ago to develop our online store available at http://www.wydawnictwowam.pl. Both the quality of all the works carried out, as well as our cooperation were stellar.
The technical solutions suggested and implemented by Droptica were a great help and often improved the value of our system, often exceeding our initial expectations. Cooperation with Droptica is characterised by very friendly, direct and precise communication on their part. Thanks to that, we were – and constantly are – able to define and detail all the tasks related to the development of our sales platform.
We also appreciate their very clear settlement system, which allows us to better plan and allocate funds for development. In other words, we definitely recommend working with Droptica.
Our extensive Drupal knowledge is confirmed not only by the projects and client reviews but also by the articles on our blog
See some examples of Drupal-related articles.
Improving drupal performance by 80% with Apache Solr
Drupal is a bit famous for the amount of database queries done against a database. When there are thousands of concurrent users to be served, the database can quickly turn into a major bottleneck. This was the case with http://kwestiasmaku.com - a very popular website with recipes. The website is visited by millions of enthusiasts of cooking.
How to create a custom entity in Drupal 8
Entity API in Drupal 8 is now baked into core and is now so well organised that there is almost no excuse for creating database tables, which are not entities at the same time.
Building a big website? Here are ten reasons why you should be using Drupal
To create a big, frequently updated website, you need more than just skilled editors. A solid technological foundation is also a must. If you have a hard time choosing from the ocean of possibilities, Drupal, a versatile system of CMF-class comes to your rescue.
Drupal development with docker and docker-console - Drupal BCD 2017
Droptica is using Docker for over 2 years. I will show you how it transformed our processes and allowed us to save hundreds of hours every year. I will also tell you why we choose docker in the first place. How it allowed us to work quicker and have complete environments available locally, even with complex services.
Codeception - how to start automatic tests using docker-console
If you read our previous posts, you already know very well how to start a project in the docker-console. If you haven’t done it yet, you should start with this article, because for the purpose of this article we assume that your project in the docker-console is already up and running, therefore all commands executed below will refer to it. In this article, we would like to introduce you to the world of automatic tests using Codeception, based on this kind of a project. Of course, not everyone has to automate all the tests on their projects, but if this will not require too much work, we bet that many people will look at a set of “smoke tests” favourably, to say the least.
Effective software delivery? Remote SCRUM team
The deadline is today. A remote development team have worked for several weeks on your software. You obtain the long-awaited access to the system. You check it and you are not satisfied with the achieved results. All that was needed to avoid this problem is a team with experience in technology and working using SCRUM.
Why do we automate software development?
Quality is one of the principles that we uphold at Droptica. We want to create the best software, in line with our clients’ requirements – efficient, error-free and cost-effective. Today, I am going to tell you about one of the most crucial factors impacting the quality of the software that we develop – automation of the software development process.