Discover Drupal, the versatile open-source CMS for creating dynamic websites. Smile, France leading Drupal expert, is here to help!
Drupal , an open-source content management system (CMS), stands out for its flexibility and robustness. A favorite among developers, it offers a modular architecture that allows for the creation of dynamic and customized websites. Ideal for businesses and institutions, this CMS facilitates the management of rich and complex content while ensuring optimal security.
Smile & Drupal
Since 2008, Smile has been supporting organizations in their Drupal projects. With over 200 dedicated experts, we cover the entire lifecycle of a web project: scoping, website creation, front-end and back-end development, deployment, maintenance, and updates.
Our Drupal expertise is part of an active involvement in the open source community: participation in national and international events, regular contributions to the heart of the platform and engagement in the French ecosystem.
Visit Smile's official profile on Drupal.org to discover our contributions
Site factory and multi-site strategy
A website factory refers to an architecture that allows for the management of a large number of websites from a common technical foundation. The Drupal CMS is particularly well-suited to this approach. It allows:
- code factoring between multiple entities
- the pooling of back-end resources and updates,
- graphic consistency through a shared design system
- simplified domain name management,
- local autonomy on the front end.
This organization optimizes costs, accelerates the implementation of new sites and strengthens the digital governance of multi-brand groups.
A modular and scalable architecture
Unlike a monolithic application, this platform is based on a modular system. Each feature can be activated or adapted according to business needs.
The back office offers an intuitive interface that simplifies content management for marketing teams. The back end ensures security, performance, and interoperability with the existing information system.
The Drupal CMS also offers:
- advanced role and permission management,
- API compatibility for headless architectures,
- possible integration with marketing automation tools,
- technical optimization that is favorable to natural referencing.
This flexibility makes it a strategic choice for organizations managing multiple web projects or a large number of sites.
Security and Governance
Security is a long-standing pillar of the solution. Patches are published transparently by the community, and updates can be centralized in a multi-site approach.
The Drupal solution thus makes it possible to reconcile business autonomy, technical stability and compliance requirements, particularly for public institutions and large companies.