2 Build a photography website in Drupal
Continuing our look at using this flexible content management system on a local server to develop and test your ideas for a photography website
PART 7 OF 7 Photo website building 101
For the final part of this series, we’re going to walk you through the final stages of building a photography website from scratch using the Drupal content management system (CMS).
Websites built using a CMS are more sophisticated than ones consisting of fixed or ‘static’ pages of text, and are essential for displaying images. As an open-source general-purpose CMS, Drupal boasts a large community of contributing developers, and is popular with governments, non-profit firms and educational institutions.
Building a website in Drupal is more involved than doing it in other CMSs like WordPress, so it will appeal to computer-literate people who like the idea of going ‘behind the curtain’ of a website. The reward will be a bespoke and secure website built on a highly customisable platform where added functionality is bestowed via installing modules (extra features) and themes (which determine the look and feel).
To get to this point, we started our site build in a local environment, using the Acquia Dev Desktop local host (https://dev.acquia.com/downloads).