CMS Showcase: 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites
For those scratching their heads wondering what Drupal is, it’s an open-source (i.e. free) content management system that’s flexible and feature-packed. Over the last couple of years or so, it’s taken off as the go-to platform to run websites that require a lot of community and content management features. From personal blogs and brochure sites, to fully-featured social networking sites, portals, news sites, and e-commerce websites, Drupal has proven itself as the most robust platform currently available in the content management system market.
This article showcases 31 websites that run on Drupal.
Jones of Washington
Spread Firefox
ubuntu
CMSthemer
Group Hug
terminus1525.ca
43 Folders
V to the 10th
miami.com
Red Room
The Seed Company
List Pilot
Whole Grains Council
LA2Day
myLifetime.com
iChris.ws
FreshBrain
MyFineJob
Faith Connections
Approva
Music Integrated Clothing
Sojourn
Favorite Things
Ferguson Photography
Returning Heroes Home
End Poverty 2015
Green Party of Canada
Writing Matters
Echoing Green
Michael Buble
teamsugar
Other websites that run on Drupal
A quick plug for the awesome Drupal community
I’d like to let everyone know of Drupalcon 2008 which will be in Boston between March 3-6, 2008 at the Boston Convention & Expo Center. Vote for the best design in the Showcase Contest Entries.
18 Comments
Matt
February 24th, 2008
Thanks for the great information. Amazing work right there showing just how powerful a free CMS can be.
ivan from adsoftheworld
February 24th, 2008
May I add mine? Not for it’s design, but for it’s relatively unique layout. Also, running on Drupal 5: http://adsoftheworld.com
Kieran
February 24th, 2008
Great list. We will be having a showcase and case study contest at http://drupalcon.org, next week.
Elvis McNeely
February 24th, 2008
Thanks for the showcase.
My only question to you is… Why aren’t you running on Drupal too?
:)
Oliver Siodmak
February 25th, 2008
DC Comics launched Zuda Comics (http://zudacomics.com) on October 30th last year which is based on Drupal. The site hosts some really cool free web comics. Check it out.
themegarden.org
February 25th, 2008
Really nice colection.
Thanks.
Jacob Gube
February 25th, 2008
Elvis,
Good question! I had originally wanted to run Six Revisions on Drupal since (1) I had more experience setting up and theming Drupal, (2) I’m a Drupal fan, (3) Drupal has a lot more community (integrated forums, user profile pages, etc.) and content management features (custom content types specifically) than Wordpress.
In the end, I chose Wordpress because it’s easier to custom theme and using Drupal for a blog such as Six Revisions is just overkill. I’ve contemplated on making Six Revisions a fully-featured community site for web developers and designers, a place where we can all hang out and share information, and if that ever happens I’ll be migrating to Drupal.
- Jacob
Kevin Quillen
February 25th, 2008
Aren’t these just here for their visual merits? Any CMS application can get this job done, free or not.
Sameer Padania
February 25th, 2008
I work for the human rights organization WITNESS, and we’ve also chosen Drupal for our latest project, the Hub, for human rights, video and action - http://hub.witness.org - and we’re very happy with the results so far.
And our developers, Civic Actions, will be at Drupalcon and will use the Hub to showcase some of the work they’ve been doing - if you’re there, please say hello to them!
Derrick
February 25th, 2008
Maybe I should migrate over from Joomla. Didn’t know so many website actually use Drupal.
Geoserv
February 26th, 2008
Those are some fantastic looking websites. I just recently installed Drupal, but haven’t started designing anything yet.
STUMBLED!
Rick
February 26th, 2008
Thank you for the compliment of featuring two of our Drupal designs (Favorite Things and FreshBrain). Especially considering the other heavy hitters featured such as Spread Firefox, Ubuntu and 43folders. Posts like this area really helpful marketing for Drupal as it hasn’t been known for being designer friendly. I see a lot of evidence here that says otherwise!
Rick
Andy Rechenberg
February 26th, 2008
Jacob,
Thanks for featuring Music Integrated Clothing. This is my first full-fledged Drupal site with a theme that was designed from the ground up. Our friend who is a web designer mocked up the site in Photoshop and then I converted the miockup to a Drupal theme.
Considering I’m not a web developer or PHP coder by trade, it’s an honor to have our site here with these other great sites. I think that really shows how Drupal can be both easy and powerful with which to work.
Thanks again,
Andy Rechenberg
Co-Founder
Music Integrated Clothing
Jono Smith
March 14th, 2008
Network for Good launched http://www.fundraising123.org in Drupal late last year, and we have become big fans!
Pete White
March 19th, 2008
I’ve been really pleased since I moved my site to Drupal. I’ve started to contribute back to the project with my first plugin called Comment Luv - a Drupal version of the popular Wordpress plugin. http://www.imafish.co.uk/commentluv
Blog Oh Joe
April 22nd, 2008
The german confession equivalent to grouphug would be http://wiitel.com - which is also based on drupal.
Ren
May 11th, 2008
Wow. Those sites have very, very fine designs indeed. But those gotta cost quite a lot huh.
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