Website Design & Development
Drupal Development & Design Services
Expertly crafted Drupal solutions tailored to your goals — scalable, secure, and built for long-term success.
Is your site ready for what’s next?
Drupal is a flexible, powerful content management system that makes building and managing your website simple. With its secure, scalable framework, it’s a popular choice for everything from simple blogs to complex, high-traffic sites.
But if you’re still running Drupal 7, it’s reached its end of life — meaning no more official updates or security patches. That puts your site at risk. At Vital, we offer several paths forward: We can help extend your Drupal 7 site’s security in the short term, guide you through a smooth upgrade to Drupal 10, or even help you transition to a completely new CMS if that better fits your long-term goals. Whatever direction you choose, we’ll make the process seamless — so you can stay focused on growing your business.
Why Choose Drupal For Your CMS Platform?
Unbeatable flexibility, strong security, and limitless scalability — all make Drupal an ideal choice for many growing businesses.
- Leverage open-source technology to customize your website without licensing fees.
- Customize your site’s functionality with an extensive module library.
- Ensure top security with a robust, community-tested framework.
- Scale your online presence effortlessly using flexible architecture.
- Enhance user experience with customizable themes and design options.
- Optimize content workflow with advanced user roles and permissions.
- Join a global community with an active user base for support and innovation.
Custom Drupal Development & Design
Need a smarter site that’s built to grow? When you partner with Vital, you get access to a full team of experts who can help you:
- Keep your site running smoothly with proactive maintenance and support
- Launch a new site, migrate to Drupal 10, or replatform with expert guidance
- Drive traffic and boost rankings with SEO and CRO
- Maximize ROI with data-driven paid advertising strategies
- Stand out online with award-winning web design that turns heads and converts
Drupal Development & Design Process
At Vital, we plan the work and then work the plan. Our process ensures that every last detail on your site serves one ultimate goal: building a foundation for digital marketing success.
Here’s how we do it:
Step 1: Discovery
We gather all the information we need to get started — details about your brand, your marketing efforts, what’s worked, what hasn’t, and where you’d like to be.
Step 2: Kickoff Meeting
You meet the key players on your web design team. We talk through the fundamentals of your website strategy, design, content, and technical needs while getting to know you and your business.
Step 3: Site Audits & Research
Our specialists comb your site for SEO value, CRO, and technical performance; conduct competitor research; and assess your current brand messaging for opportunities.
Step 4: Site Planning
We work with you to define your website’s architecture, navigation, and other critical aspects of user experience (UX) design.
Step 5: Site Design & Theme Selection
Our design team can fully customize your site based on the functionality you need, your project budget, and timeline.
Step 6: Content Creation & Population
Together, we aggregate, curate, and update all existing site content as necessary and/or produce brand-new content. Copywriting, photography, iconography, you name it — all are optimized for conversion and organic discovery.
Step 7: Website Development
Our highly experienced development team transforms all design elements and content assets into a beautiful, functional, easy-to-use website.
Step 8: Hosting, Maintenance & Support
For hosting and maintenance, we use a managed Drupal hosting provider to ensure performance, security, and scalability. Cloudways is our preferred host for non-WordPress sites, offering a reliable and flexible environment for Drupal. If you’re already using a reputable managed host such as Pantheon, we’re happy to continue supporting your site on that platform.
Drupal Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about working with Vital on a Drupal website design and development project.
Q: How long does a Drupal development project take?
A: The timeline for a Drupal development project depends on the complexity of the functionality and the amount of content involved. While the development processes for Drupal and WordPress are generally similar, trying to make one platform behave like the other can add significant time to the project. The more custom features and unique integrations required, the longer the development will take.
Q: Should I use Drupal or WordPress?
A: WordPress is the better choice for most sites, offering an easy-to-use platform with plenty of themes and plugins to customize your site without needing technical expertise. If you’re on Drupal, switching to WordPress might require some upfront effort, but it’s a worthwhile investment for better ease of use, flexibility, and long-term scalability.
Q: What should I do if my website is still on Drupal 7?
A: Unfortunately, if you’re still using Drupal 7, your site is at risk of being compromised. It’s crucial to transition to an updated version of Drupal or switch to another CMS as soon as possible.
Q: What happens to the existing content on my site?
A: We’ll carefully scan your site to assess the existing content and then work with you to determine what to keep, remove, or combine. Once that’s decided, we’ll move forward with migrating the selected content to your new site or begin rebuilding it to fit the updated structure.
Ready to get started?
Our talented Drupal website developers and strategists are excited to hear your ideas.
