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The choice of Drupal™ CMS as a web site technology for Webel IT Australia proved to be a very good bet. Whilst some web technologies have come and gone like mayflies, Drupal CMS, as of 2025, is still amongst the most used fully-fledged CMS web site frameworks as measured by the highest traffic web sites, third only to Wordpress (which is not nearly as powerful), and the newcomer Shopify (which now dominates much of the eCommerce market, but does not have strong support for flexible, database-driven serving of structured content).
Drupal CMS has been a powerful ally serving educational content, database-driven content, and rich media for the Webel IT Australia site for nearly two decades (with upgrades assisted by custom PHP code).
However, for many tasks, there are now alternatives and new strategies, such as a trend towards Headless CMS technologies, RESTful web services using JSON, OpenAPI, microservices, cloud native technologies, and mixing and matching of backend and frontend technologies, including use of separate frontends for web browsers and for mobile apps respectively. Latest Drupal11 has robust support for JSON REST APIs, which are often combined with, for example, ReactJS frontends, as described by the Decoupled Drupal project.
And it is also no longer necessary to rely on a single backend API. The ability to merge data from multiple API sources, and to respond to API notifications from multiple services, is now a common requirement.
Webel IT Australia can help advise you, unzealously, on your web technology needs. With the flexibility of the Headless CMS approach comes complexity; use of a monolithic Drupal CMS may in fact still be the best fit for some projects. And what is often overlooked in discussions of Headless CMS is that you don’t have to sacrifice the benefits of the main CMS frontend in order to also have a REST API exposed as a side-door for other front ends to consume.
Drupal CMS is excellent for structured content authoring, supported by the very powerful Views content querying module, a very active developer community, over 50,000 contributed modules, and reliable statistics on contributed module usage and the developers behind them. In short, Drupal CMS is mature.
And the PHP language isn’t going anywhere soon! Support for PHP on Linux-based servers is excellent, including long term support for older versions. Statistics on usages of languages have to be taken with a grain of salt, but according to W3Techs, as of early 2025, PHP powers 75% of all websites with a known server-side language. And the Symfony framework for PHP, which backs Drupal, is likewise going strong.
Effective use of Drupal requires more than just knowledge of PHP and HTML. The Drupal Theme system decouples many aspects of presentation from the served content, and employs both Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for styling – which may be generated using Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS) – and JavaScript, for which Drupal has many assets libraries (such as for jQuery) and integration of JavaScript through the Drupal Behaviors mechanism. Webel IT Australia has two decades experience using CSS and JavaScript for Drupal theming.
Support for responsive CSS web design (mobile vs desktop/laptop web browser views) varies between Drupal themes. Webel IT Australia has plenty of experience tweaking CSS using media queries for responsive design.
Webel IT has previously created Drupal CMS web sites for many organisations and have operated and maintained them for extended periods. If you engage us to develop a new Drupal11 CMS web site, or to maintain an existing older Drupal CMS web site, Webel IT Australia – which has been in operation since 2000 – will be there for you, and for the long term.