Tuesday 12 March 2013

Drupal and Its Applications for Enhancing Social Media Experience



The rush for developing social media applications is rising as the Drupal platform has showed the developers the easy way of developing such high end applications which can be delivered to users in a far simple way.

Drupal developers are provided with a content management system which provides them with exclusive tools for designing Blogs, Forums, Profiles and Wikis. The platform which becomes a result of such robust tools ends up being optimal for users to interact with one another and with the officials of the website too. With the advent of social media it becomes imperative for websites to have such interactive features which enable the users to communicate as without such features it defeats the purpose of even having a website or application which is in sync with social media. 

The social aspects which can be provided to a web application by a Drupal programmer do not only provide the businesses with engaging aspects but it also intrigues the user to find more in the application. Drupal programmers find it highly simple as it is an open source platform and the codes can be accessed by them for free. The profit becomes very high when the project being developed from depends on technical resources which cost next to nothing. The scalability of the platform also helps businesses to host their websites and web based applications on secure platforms preventing them for getting attacked frequently.

Every website owner/developer/designer will obviously want to drive traffic to the site with the maximum effect as without users and traffic the existence of the website itself turns redundant. And for this to happen with much impact many website moderators and administrators are employing the tactic of optimizing the website according to the place where it is situated when searched for certain related keywords in a search engine. There are various aspects in Drupal such as options for changing the title of the page, naming URL’s to make them getting located optimally, Meta tags etc which help the Drupal developer to work closely with strategies to make the website or the web application becomes more popular amongst users.

The content which is added using Drupal to a website is highly editable as content is the king when web marketing a website is considered. Only a webpage which has quality content gets recognized by search engines and make the work of a Search Engine Optimization Analyst’s job simple. Features such as Add, Edit and Change make it possible for the admin to work and edit the content and they do not need to rely on the help of developers. 

The learning curve of social media is very steep which makes it difficult for the developers to get adapted to quickly. This being one of the reasons for the pace  at which the social media applications are developing in the market but once the impact of it is understood by Drupal developers the chances of it becoming a hit will rise rapidly.

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