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Cooking Drupal-Based Platform for Food Lovers

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Cooking something very delicious requires the right sort of ingredients and preparation. Serving delectable food can entice people and make them remember the taste for a long long time. Building a food-based website also requires the right platform that can engage people and offer ambitious digital experiences. This is where Drupal enters the scene.

Illustration showing a transition of sunrise into a plate with spoon and fork with six different images in six different boxes


As an open source CMS, Drupal is a reliable, secure and flexible platform and helps in creating the features that technology professionals want. It conforms with technical and business requirements and can be a great solution for powering the online presence of a food-based brand.

Drupal’s Greatness for Food-based Website

Drupal powers websites of some of the great names in the food industry like BBC Good Food, 24 Kitchen, Bosscaffe, Alevri among others. What prompts them to choose Drupal?

Drupal powers websites of some of the great names in the food industry

Spectacular functionalities

Drupal offers a lot of modules, themes, and distributions that can help build a great food-based website.

For instance, a restaurant chain can use the make their Drupal website stylish with a free mobile-first, Bootstrap 3 based theme for Drupal called Restaurant Lite.

You can even leverage the benefits of Restaurant Zymphonies Theme which is another free mobile-first theme that can power the websites of restaurants, food stalls, hotels and other dining websites.

As a multifunctional, commercial profile created for intricate online stores, Food Delivery, a Drupal distribution, offers a complete starter pack for developing food-based websites.

Security

Drupal Security Team has been working round-the-clock validating and responding to security issues thereby making it one of the most secure open source CMS. Among the leading open source CMSs, it has been performing far better than Wordpress, Joomla and Magento.

Drupal is one of the most secure open source CMS
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Scalability

To help you cope with the busiest of days, Drupal can scale with your needs and can efficaciously handle a massive amount of traffic.

Multilingual

Drupal has out of the box support for building multilingual websites in the form of core modules that allows you to deliver localised digital experiences.

Mobile-responsive

Drupal helps in building responsive sites and web applications thereby allowing you to interact with your consumers on-the-go.

Text about Bosscasse in a boxHome page of Drupal powered food-based website of Bosscaffe showing a restaurant hall with chairs and transparent glass-wall


Speed

To run an agile team and ensure the continuous delivery of the web development project, Drupal’s pliable platform is superb. Furthermore, it helps in implementing performance optimisation techniques for building a high performing site.

Third-party integration

You can leverage the best tools outside the periphery of Drupal by integrating a variety of marketing technologies and business applications.

Content Workflow

Content authors can get awesome tools for creating and publishing content on the site. With the help of its preview feature, you can see how your content will look across various devices. Moreover, the authentication and permissions enhance the editorial workflow.

Content authors can get awesome tools for creating and publishing content on the site
Description about Alevri Drupal Food website in a boxHome page of Alevri with an image of brown coloured pizza on white plate


Content architecture

Drupal lets you create the right content architecture and show appropriate content for each context with the help of great display mode tools, Views and a plentitude of media types.

Text description about Food drink devon site in a boxHomepage of Food Drink Devon with the image of a book kept on a wooden surface


Content-as-a-service

Its content as a service approach lets the front end developers build engaging customer experiences with Drupal’s presentation neutral content and RESTful API leveraging tools like Angular, Ember, Backbone and many more.

Multisite

Drupal’s immense capability in building a multisite architecture allows you to govern multiple websites across your enterprise brands, geographies and promotional campaigns on a  centralised platform.

Business-driven

You can build a solution that adheres to your business requirements and does things as your business demands.

Perfect tech stack

Drupal dwells on a modern LAMP technology stack comprising of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP which helps in fulfilling the needs of fast-moving, flexible, and agile enterprises in creating ambitious digital experiences.

Large community

Drupal’s vast community presence is one of its greatest strength as thousands of organisations create solutions with Drupal and in the process build Drupal itself.

Description about BBC GoodFood website in a boxHomepage of BBC goodfood with the images of red and green coloured breads shaped in the form of sweaters


Case study

24 Kitchen, one of the most popular platforms on food, cooking and lifestyle, has extracted the power of Drupal with the help of a digital agency to transform their presence in the digital landscape.

Homepage of 24 kitchen website with an image of green coloured oval shaped dishes on a plate

Search API Solr Search, a Drupal module for offering Solr backend, uses Apaches Solr servers for indexing and searching content and was utilised for related recipes in 24 Kitchen website development. The amazing capabilities of Fast Autocomplete module merged the extensive database of videos with the recipe’s database thereby allowing the retrieval of thousands of recipes that come with recommendations based on preference and user parameters.

Without any developer’s interference, the content editor could create flexible layout components, new pages and formats. This was made possible by paragraphs module. Through smart widgets, high-value content was disclosed which allowed other websites to directly query and present content from the 24 Kitchen within their own website. 

The Drupal website of 24 Kitchen has been very advantageous for marketing and sales with its boundless integration with the 24 Kitchen television format. It has paved the way for working with partners on promotional campaigns and cross-selling via numerous national news and lifestyle sites. The Drupal-powered website made it possible for content syndication and serving content to the consumers when relevant (for example, the Widgets and Facebook recipe bot). Ultimately, the redressal of 24 Kitchen website with the help of Drupal’s monumental capabilities resulted in staggering growth in page views.

Conclusion

Drupal offers a stupendous platform for building a powerful food-based website and allows the enterprises to grow as a brand.

We love Drupal and have been in our constant pursuit of delivering high quality and innovative solutions with our expertise in Drupal development.

Contact us at [email protected] to build a food-based site using Drupal.

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