Drupal Development
The development stage of a project is when we really start to see tangible things happening. At ComputerMinds we’re used to coming onboard at various stages during the development process be that right at the beginning, building everything from scratch through to inheriting existing code and going from there. In this section, we give a brief overview of some of the ways we might be able to help.
Entire Website Builds
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! 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! All of our code follows the well established Drupal coding standards meaning that it is fully extendable and there is no vendor lock in.
Bespoke Modules
Whilst many generic tasks can be accomplished with Drupal using code from its wide and active community of developers. Drupal’s modular structure makes it easy to plug new functionality in as and when needed and it is often the case that some custom code will be required to meet some of your requirements and this is where ComputerMinds come in! We’re happy to just work on individual modules or a selection of modules bespoke to you. Because of Drupal’s modular structure there’s no need to for us to have touched any of the other code in your website so you can come to us at any stage!
Frontend Development
It is often easy to spend so long focusing on the technical side of the development process that the frontend side of things gets taken for granted. At ComputerMinds we realise the importance of proper, modern frontend technologies such a SASS when it comes to streamlining the development process as well as making it much more robust. Gone are the days of unwieldy CSS, now we take a much more considered approach when it comes to how things look and feel from a coding point of view, from style through to a bit of jQuery to get you user experience working just the way you want!
Third Party Integrations
When it comes to developing your Drupal website it is often the case that you want this to marry with other systems as seamlessly as possible. This might be something as routine as tying in a third party payment gateway through to something more complex such as a complete integration with your current CRM or ERP tools. At ComputerMinds we have a wealth of experience when it comes to integrating the existing systems that our clients use, including APIs that are very well documented through to those that need a little more digging around to figure things out. We're always happy to take on a new challenge!
Drupal Developers For Hire
Simply put, ComputerMinds are an excellent team of highly experienced Drupal developers, and we're available for hire in whatever context you might need us. Aside from “Please build my website!”, here's a couple of ideas:
Supplement your team
Sometimes you need a Drupal consultant, and other times you just need to airdrop in some top-class Drupal developers who know their stuff and are ready to get stuck in. Perhaps your team would benefit from an expert Drupal developer on an ongoing monthly basis, or maybe you just need some extra support for a particularly tricky project. Either way, we've got the Drupal chops you need.
Project sponsorship
Drupal is a free and open-source product. There is great power in the wealth of freely available contributed modules and themes available for every Drupal website to leverage. Maybe there's a bug you need fixing in Drupal, or in a contributed module or theme that you use. Perhaps there's a missing feature or a 3rd party integration that doesn't exist yet, but really should. Sponsor our Drupal developers to get it sorted for you, whilst at the same time giving back to the wider community and making Drupal better for everyone!
Talk to us about your project
"We've hired ComputerMinds for a variety of Drupal projects over the last two years, Mike and his team have delivered some great and imaginative solutions to some of our most complex integration problems. Mike is a great personality to work with and we have yet to find a problem ComputerMinds couldn't solve - we keep trying!"
James Drinkwater
Thompson Sport
Case studies
EDF Energy
A platform based solution that could be used across multiple different websites without the requirement for additional code to be written. The main EDFEnergy.com website was previously running on a legacy platform which would be replaced with a new Drupal website.
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Roberts Radio
On this project the client wanted a rich eCommerce website with multilingual support. Modern and engaging designs were designed by Thinking Juice who we would work alongside as the project progressed.
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The Conservative Party
We have been working alongside the Conservative Party since 2010 to provide individual websites for their different Associations across the country as well as to MPs, prospective candidates and many more who have an affiliation to the Party. We have developed a platform that allows us to host and manage multiple websites from one place meaning it is possible for us to build a fresh website in a matter of minutes.
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