![]() More than a decade ago, the Drupal community decided to "Get Off the Drupal Island." That meant adopting solutions shared across popular projects and frameworks instead of ones developed and maintained exclusively by the Drupal community. In addition to being fresh and modern designs, both were developed with accessibility as a top priority. The new faces of Drupal are two brand new themes: Olivero for visitors and Claro for admins. For example, thanks to being unencumbered by support for legacy browsers, Drupal 10 includes a new responsive grid layout that's so innovative it got a writeup in CSS Tricks. That may not sound like an improvement, but continued support for IE kept the community from adopting modern markup and styling. In fact, a significant change in Drupal 10 will be the removal of support for Internet Explorer (IE), which is itself no longer supported by Microsoft and hasn't seen major updates since 2013. A lot has changed since then, particularly around best practices for building websites. To put that in context, when Bartik was released, the most popular browser in the world was Internet Explorer 8. Until recently, the Bartik and Seven themes had been the default face of Drupal for more than a decade. In Drupal, themes define the look and feel of a site, and you can use different themes for public and administrative experiences. Still, the initial experience you have when installing a CMS matters. Most Drupal sites use custom themes to give them a unique look and feel. Here's a rundown for anyone who hasn't kept tabs on what's coming in the newest major version. Drupal sites (like this site, !) benefit from a strong role-based access control (RBAC) system, unlimited custom roles and workflows, and a powerful and extensible media library. While other CMS options focus on simple long-form content (think blogs) or entirely free-form content (like in Wix or Squarespace), Drupal has made a name for itself in handling more complex content architectures, in multiple languages, with robust content governance. ![]() Aaron Judd of Northern Commerce What's a Drupal, anyway?ĭrupal is an open source CMS and development framework. ![]()
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