[consulting] Thoughts on using the word "Drupal" on your business site and in marketing

[nan wich]

Hmm... Looking back over my work, I've only gotten two requests: 1) Fix my site, 
or 2) Build me a site.

In the first case ("fix"), there have been three outcomes: 1) It was already 
Drupal and that's why they sought me out; 2) It was straight PHP/MySql; 3) It 
was some other CMS. In #1, I usually fix it, then push for a maintenance 
contract (unusally unsuccesfully). In case #2, I took the job and almost always 
muttered to myself, "This would be so much easier/better in Drupal." In case #3, 
I try to find them someone with expertise on that platform unless I can manage 
to convince them that Drupal is better (which I will be doing in an 
interview this week).

In the "build" case, only one has specifically requested Drupal, and that was 
because the CIO was a Drupal hobbyist and his Java staff (9 people) told him it 
would take two years. Mostly by myself, the site was launched in three months, 
then I spent the next nine months responding to Marketing requests for new 
features and training someone to administer the site from then on.

Of all the remaining sites I have done from scratch, no one has been unhappy 
that they could create and maintain their own content or that it was easy to 
(re-)organize.
 
Nancy
 
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.



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From: jeff at ayendesigns.com
Interesting. All four of the last four direct-to-client sites I did 
asked me for Drupal specifically. I'm not sure which experience is an 
anomaly...probably mine. I don't know about the comparison, though. You 
could look at Drupal as the water in a bottle of web platforms, or 
Drupal as the bottle in a vending machine of web site drinks.
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