With Drupal, you can create for the future
Drupal Open Source
Drupal has been around since 2001, and continues to attract interest and active developers. From May 2006 to April 2007, Drupal was downloaded from the Drupal.org website more than 600,000 times. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal) A large, international community now helps develop and maintain Drupal. With this track record, you can rest knowing that Drupal will continue to grow and be maintained in the future by its dedicated international support group. Continued active development is important for site adoption and planning. With 'custom code', you need to know that someone has provided the appropriate documentation or commenting throughout your site so you don’t end up with "Maintenance nightmare".
Growing for the Future
The Internet is in a constant flux of new ideas and methods for communicating. Drupal is focused on growing with the future and providing standards-compliant solutions. Take RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) as an example, with Drupal, you turned on a module. With the 4.6 release, RSS is now updated to RSS 2.0 standards. This last sentence doesn’t make sense to me... are you trying to say something like:
Take RSS as an example. This function RSS is a program that allows you to automatically search the web for the latest additions (news, updates, whatever) that you are interested in adding to your site, your blog, your discussion group, whatever. RSS automatically creates links to these latest additions on your own site. With a Drupal-based system, when updates to functions such as RSS are launched, your website automatically updates the latest version without you having to get your basic coding re-done.
Flexible Modular Development
While we don't know for sure what future web standards or ideas will evolve. Our past experience shows us that customized site updates can often involve a complete rewrite of your code. With Drupal, you can be sure that your coding is flexible and modular enough to grow and easily adapt to these changes.
As your Drupal site grows, you will be serving more visitors and more page views.
This will put more load on your server, and can cause a bottleneck that slows down your site, or even causes it to freeze up.
My Drupal site needs some Tweaking and Improvements
Several of our clients have approached NorthStudio about performance issues – clients with sites ranging from Virtual Private servers to multiprocessor-dedicated servers.
If you have a Drupal site that is experiencing performance issues, NorthStudio can help by investigating the problems you are having.
Our complete site assessment, SEO (search engine optimization) and code-tuning service includes Drupal as well as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP).
The outcome for you is a faster running and more efficient site, with optimized use of your existing resources, such as CPU, memory and disk.
