Last issue, we showed how to build a photography website from scratch using the Drupal content management system (CMS). This approach is an alternative to enlisting the services of a dedicated website-builder platform like SmugMug, Squarespace or Wix (see issue 231).
To recap, websites built using a CMS are more sophisticated than ones consisting of fixed or ‘static’ pages of text, and are essential for displaying images. These are stored in a database and served to users as required; the website’s host CMS accepts requests from a remote computer and instructs the server to send the data.
While using the WordPress CMS will get the job done perfectly well, developing a site in Drupal will appeal to computer-literate folk who have the time - and the inclination - to go behind the curtain of a website’s front-end.