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.



83 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.
Drupal Museum
May 28th, 2008
Thanks for the great post. I recently released http://www.drupalmuseum.com which showcases beautiful Drupal sites. I’ve added a few entries from this post.
Drupal Museum
May 28th, 2008
Thanks for the great post. I recently released http://www.drupalmuseum.com to showcase beautiful Drupal websites. I’ve added a few entries from this post.
Schalk Neethling
June 17th, 2008
Not sure if you knew but the very popular DZone.com website as well as all the zones are also running on the Drupal platform.
Jason Palmer
June 17th, 2008
Take a look at this Drupal-powered site I helped put together for the Department of Education for NYC:
http://www.keepitgoingnyc.org/
Fannie Weaver
June 19th, 2008
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Sharpwave
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/
BookwormProductions
September 25th, 2008
Great List! Can you checkout our site http://www.psd2cms.designbreakdown.com and see if it is worthy enough for the list?
George
September 26th, 2008
Hi, nice list! Inspirational. I’d like to add MOSO Bamboo which has a nice clean grid layout with an emphasis on product presentations.
Online hry
September 26th, 2008
Great! All you need is Drupal :-D
honour chick
October 9th, 2008
JOOMLA RULES :)
solusiplus
November 7th, 2008
Thank’s for your great information it’s useful to me
Raseel
November 18th, 2008
Wow !! I dont belive I actually passed Drupal earlier for Joomla. My Bad.
Gadget Techie
November 21st, 2008
well i tried using drupal before as well.. but i ended up with joomla because i think it is easier to control
john morgon
December 10th, 2008
Joomla and Drupal are equally good to use, thanks for the info on here
Matt
February 25th, 2009
I considered using Drupal way back when, and just didn’t get it and then tried Joomla, which admittedly did most things straight out of the box.
But I just didn’t like the way you had to create content, and the way it displayed it back.
After two or three websites I went back to drupal and built a number of increasingly complicated websites, figured out views and cck and that was it then.
Joomla isn’t a patch on Drupal, once you’ve got it. So if your thinking of switching look for screencasts on cck and views.
Any way – I’d like to put forward my drupal website for the showcase. It’s a English football team news and community portal for a newspapers Stoke City Football Club news “Why Delilah”
Eric Carter
March 3rd, 2009
Wow tons of great ideas here, thanks for sharing.
Topmen
March 16th, 2009
Thanks for the helpful information!
Brad West
April 2nd, 2009
I said yesterday I really didn’t need another site. This is one great collection. The third time it had come up in my searches I had to comment.
Thanks for the tease.
Brad West ~ onomoney
Talk About Debt
May 16th, 2009
Drupal has been the perfect CMS for use. Talk About Debt was the 4th site we put on drupal and what’s impressed me is the number of modules available and the ease of which we developed on top to create our ‘best advice’ calculator which has some complicated bespoke logic.
gaus surahman
May 19th, 2009
Ah, I can understand that you missed my site. That’s okay :) I wasn’t even there when you posted this. Thanks for sorting.
Andrew
May 28th, 2009
Thanks for posting this. I’m doing some research on drupal, and this is very helpful for me. Thanks.
Alex
June 16th, 2009
Drupal-Builder.net is both Drupal-based and Drupal-generating site, based on interesting idea and useful for Drupal beginners.
costa
June 21st, 2009
Thanks for the great post.That’s really help me a lots with my research on drupal.
Rick Gonzalez
July 18th, 2009
Wow! great designs really got some good ideas just taking a look at this. I really like drupal. I am designing a site right now. Very helpul site. Thanks a lot.
Grace
August 5th, 2009
I have been doing some research on Drupal products as I have become a great fan. Thanks for sharing this information-look forward to hearing more soon.
Jamie T
August 11th, 2009
Some of these sites are amazing! Another site I’ll recommend for the list is http://youcreatewebsite.com. It has a very nice, clean, and organized look. The site teaches about Content Management Systems too. But thanks for this list. I love Drupal!
Craig
August 11th, 2009
Great article thanks for sharing. Some very interesting sites there
Hunter
September 13th, 2009
The favorite things really caught my eye, have to check out how SEO Friendly it is…
Blue Design
September 15th, 2009
Thank you for this great topic
doggase
September 23rd, 2009
nice collection thanks for topic
buffys
September 23rd, 2009
Thanks for the great information!
Ho
September 28th, 2009
good stuff guys
bwin.fr
October 9th, 2009
Your post is very nice and interesting, thanks !
Sullivan
October 21st, 2009
WOW! So much for Drupal being a programmers paradise and a designers nightmare. Those are some good looking sites!
I personally use Joomla, but now that I know Drupal sites can look like that I’m going to have to branch out.
Lume
October 24th, 2009
I’ve recently had the pleasure of working on a commercial Drupal project, and it’s simply brilliant.
accommodation kensington london
November 5th, 2009
I should try Drupal it looks neet.
Jamie
November 9th, 2009
Awesome list! Thanks
But I think you need to remove terminus1525.ca as it is being directed to pornographic references.
identum
November 16th, 2009
Nice list – it really shows perfect examples, what you can do with drupal. We just launched a drupal 6 based online community for Austrian modern daddies http://www.freshdads.com
Carlos Carvalhar
November 28th, 2009
my site is made with Drupal and Flex, and i wrote a making off here: Making of Carvalhar.com.
Lemu
December 29th, 2009
Nice list… what about to add this one: http://www.ieadblu.com
Jenn
January 16th, 2010
nice list, thanks!
jerry fields
January 22nd, 2010
Amazing templates, I wish my sites looked 1/2 as good!
Jay Sargos
January 27th, 2010
I like both Drupal and Joomla- it is good to use many tools in your toolbox! Thanks for the good information!
juegos
January 28th, 2010
Thanks for the imformation, It looks really good and because of that good companies work with you.
Juegos
January 28th, 2010
I have my personal blog with Drupal. It works great!
Vis
January 31st, 2010
Wow… I never thought those websites would look so great with Drupal… I had tried to set up Drupal on my website but found it a bit lot of work so insteads, I obviously took the easy path of Wordpress. Thanks for opening my eyes and I will make go for another try with Drupal soon!
CSS Freak
February 2nd, 2010
nice list, folders is the best of this collection! Wordpress ruleZZ!^^
Andrea Vee
March 8th, 2010
Love this post, although i am beginning to think that Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla are beginning to cramp our style (ok, maybe not in the case of these unique sites) I think web designers need to start thinking creatively, and with their customers’ best interests in mind. Using css galleries and website portfolios to generate ideas (and steal concepts) is just lessening the impact truly amazing web design could have. We all need to be unique, insightful, and most of all CREATIVE!
BMM
March 17th, 2010
I use Joomla and Wordpress to build my sites, but recently I’ve been looking more and more towards Drupal. I think it will take longer to accomodate to it’s requirements but I’ve heard it’ll be worth it.
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