Drupal Website Development.

What is Drupal Development?

Drupal development is the design, theming, module work, and deployment of websites built on the Drupal open-source CMS — currently Drupal 10 (with Drupal 11 in active release). It covers everything from converting a Figma or PSD design into a custom Drupal theme, to building Views and content types in core, to writing custom modules that extend Drupal's plugin and services architecture, to running Drupal 7 → Drupal 10/11 migrations.

Drupal is the right CMS when a site needs structured content (typed fields, references, taxonomies) modelled in core, fine-grained roles and permissions, multilingual support at the core layer rather than via a plugin, strict accessibility (Drupal core targets WCAG 2.1 AA), or multi-site installations that share one codebase. Typical fits are universities, government and NGO portals, news publishers, and B2B sites with complex editorial workflows.

PSD & Figma to Drupal

We hand-code custom Drupal themes from Figma, PSD, Adobe XD, and Sketch source files — no purchased themes, no Bootstrap subthemes loaded with bloat. Every theme uses Twig templates, Drupal libraries for managed CSS/JS, and a clean theme.info.yml / libraries.yml structure that survives core updates.

What our PSD / Figma to Drupal service includes:

• Custom Twig templates for nodes, blocks, paragraphs, Views, and regions — no inline PHP in template files.
• Drupal libraries with attached CSS/JS scoped per region or component, not globally dumped.
• Custom content types & fields modelled to match your design's repeating components (hero, features, team grid, testimonials, FAQ).
• Views, Paragraphs, and Layout Builder configured so editors can compose pages without touching code.
• Responsive layouts tested across iOS Safari, Chrome Android, and the desktop matrix — no horizontal-scroll surprises.
• SEO-friendly markup: semantic HTML5, schema.org via the Schema.org Metatag module, clean URL aliases, XML sitemap.
• Accessibility checks against WCAG 2.1 AA — colour contrast, focus states, ARIA where Drupal core leaves a gap.
• Composer-managed codebase committed to your Git repo, ready for any host (Pantheon, Acquia, Platform.sh, or self-managed).

Drupal 7 & Drupal 9 Migration to Drupal 10 / 11

Drupal 7 reached community end-of-life on 5 January 2025, and Drupal 9 reached EOL on 1 November 2023. If your site is still on D7 or D9, you are running unsupported software — no security patches, no contrib-module updates, and rising hosting risk. We run the migration in five phases:

1. Audit — inventory of every content type, taxonomy, View, custom field, contrib module, and theme override on the current site.
2. Contrib map — for every D7/D9 contrib module, identify the D10 replacement (some merged into core, some renamed, some deprecated). Flag the gaps that need custom-module work.
3. Rebuild — fresh Drupal 10 install, rebuild the content model and Views in code (using config/sync), port the theme to Twig.
4. Migrate API run — content transfer using Migrate, Migrate Drupal, and custom migrate_plus YAML where needed. Files, users, taxonomies, comments, custom-entity data.
5. Cutover — redirect mapping (preserving Google rankings), DNS, SSL, post-launch QA against the legacy site, and a 30-day stabilisation window.

When to Choose Drupal Over WordPress

Most agencies will tell you "WordPress for everything" because WordPress is what they know. We build both — and the honest answer is that the right CMS depends on what your site actually has to do. Use this as a quick decision matrix:

Still not sure? Send us your design and a one-line description of the editorial workflow — we'll tell you, honestly, which CMS we'd build it in. If Joomla, a full WordPress development retainer, a bespoke custom PHP / Laravel build, or a headless setup using React.js on top of Drupal's JSON:API would serve you better, we'll say so.