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5 Reasons to Upgrade to Drupal 8, The Next Big Thing

In this era of digital presence, organizations worldwide are heavily dependent on versatile digital platforms to improve the experience of the customers, and simultaneously keep up with the global trends.

One unique feature that organizations heavily use is ‘Content Management System’. Multiple names come into our minds when we think of efficient and robust content management software. But globally, a certain CMS stands out; ‘Drupal’. And it is time we upgrade our systems with Drupal 8.

In case you are wondering why you should upgrade to Drupal 8, and why not, this article will walk you through the 5 reasons why you should upgrade to Drupal 8.

WHAT IS DRUPAL?

Drupal is a household name when it comes to content management software. With its quality standard features and unique modularity and functionality, Drupal has set a standard of its own in the world of global corporations. Drupal is mainly used to develop many of the applications and websites that we see today. It allows you to create a unique website and digital platform experience, with its modules expanding the features and functionality. Along with Drupal’s eligibility for extensions with multiple add-ons, and its distributions packaged just for you to use as starter-kits, it also allows you to integrate the open source software with external sources and other application services, to attain an enriched digital platform experience.

Drupal has it all. How many software that you know about are distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and does not require any licensing fee? Well, Drupal lets you have the highest amount of convenience and much more, making it the most scalable content management software around.

WHY SHOULD I UPGRADE TO DRUPAL 8?

Drupal 8 is by far the biggest upgrade in the Drupal module. It’s not your average ‘quality’ content management software.

Drupal 8, is the next big thing in the world of digital transcendence.

Now, a question might arise: If your site is doing just fine with Drupal 6, or Drupal 7, what are the exact features and reasons, for which you should upgrade to Drupal 8?

For Drupal 6, well, the answer is relatively easy. Drupal 6 is longer an officially supported platform, for which, there might arise multiple security concerns. If you are running a 6, you will have to go through rigorous backports for security patches to maintain an intrusion free system.

As far as Drupal 7 is concerned, it still uses a relatively larger amount of memory, just like its predecessors. On top of that, Drupal 7 does not have as much variety in themes, and is coded with PHP. But, considering the previous upgrades, Drupal 7 is still considered, it is still one of the latest forms of technology that Drupal has offered in the recent years.

You might be wondering that the 7 is equipped with all the latest security measures, so why Drupal 8 ?

 

[1] MIGRATIONS MADE EASIER

When it came to migrating your site’s contents, it was not possible to upgrade to Drupal 8 for the last few years because the Migration features were just quite not ready to be installed and work with. More importantly, using a customized migration feature or a generic migration feature which would have a bugged system would become a hassle on its own. But that is no more a problem. Drupal 8 is now equipped with fully functional migration features, which makes Drupal 8, the most versatile Drupal upgrade so far.

One small caveat, for multilingual websites, you might have to wait your turn for another one tow upgrades, before you can embark upon a bug free content management, but that surely does not mean that you will not avail the unique features that the latest upgrade has to offer.

[2] PROFICIENCY IN HTML5

Drupal 8 is equipped with the latest HTML5 coding, which offers clarity and simplicity which makes it easier for you to complete a structure web markup write up. With direct access to phone, email, time, and date, the HTML5 coding in Drupal 8 makes it the most efficient way to structure CMS functions for a website. On the other hand, certain theme-based templates provided with the Drupal 8 makes the job of amateur website designers much easier when writing the HTML5 code.

All in all, the robust HTML5 proficiency in Drupal 8 increases the device compatibility and functional excellence.

[3] ACCESSIBILITY MADE SMOOTHER

When you upgrade to Drupal 8, your website attains unfiltered access to techniques such as TabManager, API, WAI-ARIA, ARIA Announcements, etc. which increases the functional excellence of your website immensely.

Features like font size, color contrasting, dialogue, auto-complete options equipped with Drupal 8 enhances the internet supporting options.

[4] EASY DOWNLOADS

With Drupal 8, downloads become as easy as it gets. Websites based on Drupal 8 download JavaScript only when it is necessary, and cache every possible entity. In the websites, once a webpage has been viewed it is automatically stored in the cache memory, and there is no further need to download the certain content again.

[5] BUILT IN WEB SERVICES

Drupal 8 can be used as an open source CMS, and the outputs can be derived in other formats such as XML or JSON. The most intriguing part about this upgrade by Drupal is that posting data from the front end is also allowed.

If you are looking for an efficient, easily accessible, and robust CMS for your newly built or running website, look no further. Drupal 8 is the one-step solution to all your CMS necessities.

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