Right, I could do with gathering a little information on a few things. Both opinion and fact welcomed.

 

The company I work for have 3 similar broker websites, each with their own similar Customer sub sites. The plan is to break the sub sites away and give them their own dedicated domain.

 

It has been proposed that the Customer sub sites will be built in Drupal.

 

Now I know a little about Drupal, I've installed it a couple of times in the past etc. What I don't understand is they are proposing one Drupal system to manage all three customer websites. Is this a realistic thing to achieve?

 

 

Sorry if I'm being a little vague with the question, it's hard to explain without drawing out some sort of diagram of the proposed structure of the websites. Any information or (good) opinions of Drupal would be a great benefit right now. If we can't convince the directors to go down the Drupal route, then IT will force feed the solution of doing them all in Microsoft Share Point (and it's not even the latest version)!

I can't see how one drupal installation can manage three different sites, although you may be able to run all three from the same database using three drupal installations, one for each domain.

 

Depending on the brief for your websites, it's impossible to say how suitable drupal is for your needs. I'd definitely recommend having a look at some of the other CMS's out there.

Expression Engine has a setup for this called MSM (Multiple Site Manager). I a huge EE fan. It isn't free, but it is well worth it.

^ I agree, Expressionengine + MSM would be an ideal fit for this sort of site. As the docs asy with MSM - "prepare for a head trip"

Hi,

 

Drupal CMS is open source which means the code is freely available to anyone to use and modify. This means no license fees and no vendor lock in.Drupal CMS is supported by a passionate community of thousands of developers who continuously work to enhance the functionality and security of Drupal to enterprise levels and beyond.More over its friendky with users and websites .So it contains many features and its helpful for customer websites..

 

Thanks.

Hi there,

 

You might want to have a look at this:- http://drupal.org/node/43816 which goes through all of the multi-site setup. I have been involved with something similar in the past where we have set up different language sites using one core install. It's actually not that difficult to set up, I'm guessing the trickyest of things would be the DNS records (which we never had to deal with).

 

As cibgraphics said, Expression engine has something that does exactly what you want and Wordpress is multi-site compatable now (from version 3 onwards). You do have a choice other than Drupal.

 

Steve

hi, 

 

I didn't use word-press much more.. But in my experience drupal is better for website development. Drupal CMS is wildly famous because it provides a powerful, scalable, low cost, high value solution to manage and grow an internet presence. Drupal CMS is open source which means the code is freely available to anyone to use and modify.

 

So My preference is drupal.. Thanks