Education

Think about big names in the education sector and the technology happens to be Drupal. Harvard, Duke, Brown, and Rutgers University, all rely on the scalable, flexible, accessible Drupal platform to handle their content. Drupal core records ever-climbing usage statistics, showing a marked increase in popularity with every new version available in the market.

Drupal, an Open Source content management system has been gaining popularity over the last decade and is currently in use by reputed names such as The White House, UN, NBC, Ikea, Oxford University, Nike. Interestingly MIT, Stanford, and all Ivy League colleges use Drupal. Close to three-quarters of the top US universities use Drupal. So do many of the best university websites the world over.

Businesses are engaging in different innovative strategies to develop and deliver various digital marketing experiences across the market. Marketing strategies are spirally evolving. From a personal door-to-door marketing concept, the strategy has moved to wider mass marketing while delivering personalized content. Omnichannel marketing is about providing this experience consistently over all channels.

E-learning is rapidly transforming the education sector around the globe. A large number of corporations and educational institutions are switching over to e-learning due to the convenience and effectiveness it offers. E-learning is particularly useful for organizations that have offices in multiple locations and require an effective training solution that connects people at any given time, helps them achieve new competencies, launch new services/ products or improves skill sets, thus accelerating enterprise transformation and maximizing ROI.

Responsive sites and adaptive sites are the same in the sense that they both change appearance based on the browser environment they are being viewed on. One of the major challenges in creating a web design is how to create one that has lasting value, at least for a planned period of time. It is more likely that a first time visitor/customer may not be familiar with your products or services. There are other possibilities that your visitor is in a real hurry, or they’re on an iPad, at a coffee shop. Or maybe they’re on some device for which a website hasn’t been planned yet.

From schools to prestigious universities; Drupal is the preferred content management system for many higher education institutions across the world. In fact, today, almost 71 out of 100 top universities in the world including Harvard University, Stanford University, and Cambridge run on Drupal.

Theming in Drupal 8 is a lot different. This article gives you a comprehensive insight into how to port your Drupal 7 theme to Drupal 8.