CHOOSING BETWEEN DRUPAL AND MAGENTO FOR YOUR BUSINESS WEBSITE
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CHOOSING BETWEEN DRUPAL AND MAGENTO FOR YOUR BUSINESS WEBSITE
Choosing a platform for your new business can be an overwhelming task especially if it’s your first time. For a personal website design or blog design, your preference may not matter a lot, however for an e-commerce site it does. Your decision will entirely depend on what you consider to be most important. Since your intention is to establish a sale driven site for your organisation, you should be careful with the platform you use.
So far Drupal and Magento have proven to be very interesting platforms with many benefits. It is hard to tell which platform is the best as both of them can be conveniently hosted by many big hosting providers. Both solutions are good but not the same. You should only go for the one that has what it takes to meet your business needs.
Let’s talk about Magento
Magento has been around for more than eight years now. It is basically designed for business sites. Written in PHP, this open source application uses MySQL with some bits of Zend. Magentao comes with a suite of products designed for various business solutions. The community edition is their major product and can be obtained for free. It is open source and very useful for small start-ups. It is embedded with a shopping cart to take orders from customers.
Another popular Magento module is the enterprise edition often known as the “Magento flagship”. Unlike the free edition, this one comes with a lot of features to make your ecommerce site more flexible and convenient for your customers. Your customers will be able to access your site and its resources on many devices ranging from their PC to their mobile phones. Just like the community edition, it is open source and thus can support many third party applications that are relevant to your business needs. It comes with a lot of shopping tools to increase user experience. Your customers will find it a lot faster for various services including checkouts. Both community and enterprise edition can be customized to meet your business needs. Apart from these two, there are other specialized solutions that can be found on Magento.
Some of the popular Magento brand include Rosetta Stone, Alex and Ani, Vizio, Fun4Kids, Zumiez, and Ghirardelli.
What you should know about Drupal
Drupal has somethings in common with Magento. Just like Magento, it is written in PHP and it is open source. It was originally used for content management before being developed as a framework. It can support basically any kind of website, whether an e-commerce store, a forum or a blog. Like Magento, it is open source and comes with a standard called Core which works with up to thirty thousand modules to provide more functionality. Amongst these modules is the Drupal Commerce which works with the Drupal core to provide ecommerce features. There are also free modules for linking up payment gateways, shopping carts, and shipping. Some of the well-known brands of Drupal include Time Warner Music, Doctors of BC, First4Numbers, and Tech Coast Angels.
How to choose
Choosing what platform to use will entirely depend on your business preference. Magento is basically suitable for ecommerce. So you will find it useful if your business is heavily focused on shopping, promotional offerings and payment processing. If you need to add a lot of content, then you will need to modify it. However Drupal is suitable for content management and will also need some modification to feature some ecommerce tools. Both business solutions are good for SEO. So it is obvious that choosing what platform to use is a business decision and not a bone of contention.
Finally it is recommended to go for Magento Enterprise if you plan to run an ecommerce site with huge profit margins. But you should be ready to employ developers that will customize the store to meet your business needs. For small scale ecommerce businesses that want to feature heavy content together with many product offerings, Drupal should be a good solution.










