Building a new Drupal site
A lot of our development work here at ComputerMinds revolves around entire website builds, often with us being involved in the creation of the functional specification in some way beforehand and maybe even the design process!
How we work
Get us on board - sooner the better
When planning and designing a site, things always go better when you get the team in as early as possible. Bringing in our development experience and insight at the start gives us all the best chance to plan and design a site and project that will succeed.
That said, we’re flexible enough to join at almost any stage.
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All things are possible, not all things are sensible
(and not all things are in budget!!)
As we go through your plans together, we'll feed back honestly when we think there's a better way, or a more important priority. Your success is our success.
We've written up quick briefs on a number of common features that people ask about, which you might want to read up on:
Build on the shoulders of giants
As Drupal is an open source CMS we do as much of the heavy lifting we can using code from the community. This has the huge advantage of reducing development overheads. We can then focus solely on your specific requirements, writing bespoke code to get things working just the way you want them!
We too are active contributors to the Drupal community, with regular fixes contributed to Drupal Core and Modules, and a regular stream of technical articles with advice and stories from our experiences.
Build together
We’ll have regular check-ins with your team, to review specs and to test out what we’ve built so far. Our rapid development process involves you - we won’t just disappear for six weeks and come back with something you didn’t want! Clear communication at all steps, combined with testing platforms where you can see and use your site from early on, means that we all complete the project happy with the results.
Our clients genuinely love working with us, and that's a huge part of what makes ComputerMinds special.
Build with confidence
Quality code - All our code follows the well-established Drupal coding standards
Tried and tested - All changes can be tested on a Test platform before you approve them for Production
It’s your code - You retain full ownership of the code, with no vendor lock-in
Build with us
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