If content management systems were toys, Drupal would be Lego. It’s infinitely customizable. If you can dream it, you can build it. The one downside? You have to put it together brick by brick.

Drupal can be an ideal CMS for university websites. In addition to the customizability, it excels at managing complex content ecosystems. Content like, say, a main university page with dozens of department pages, student life pages, all with multiple content types interacting in multiple ways.

Irina Zaks is a Drupal instructor at Stanford University and the co-founder of Fibonacci Web Studio, a company focused on developing advanced web solutions for research and academia. This is the second post of a two-part series on choosing to move to Drupal 8/9, and creative ways to make the migration feasible. 

Irina Zaks is a Drupal instructor at Stanford University and the co-founder of Fibonacci Web Studio, a company focused on developing advanced web solutions for research and academia. This is the first post of a two-part series on choosing to move to Drupal 8/9, and creative ways to make the migration feasible. 

This past week at Drupal Costa Rica, I had a nice conversation with Todd Ross Neinkerk of Four Kitchens, who was there presenting on the notion of de-coupling content management and content display (here's video of a similar talk he did in Austin).

Web development is better together. As we create increasingly ambitious digital experiences and build more mission-critical web presences, the number of people working together on these projects grows. Fading are the days where the list of everything you need to make a website can fit on the back of a postcard. Instead, modern web projects require the efforts of multiple people working closely together in a collaborative fashion.