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Why we moved computerminds.co.uk to Astro and Sanity
This week's PHP2Shell flaws hit every PHP server on the web, but not ours. Here's how we rebuilt our site with Astro and Sanity, and which sites suit the same approach.Read article →Calculating for success
In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses need tools that engage users, simplify decision-making, and drive conversions. This Case Study has three different client success stories from engaging in-page tools that we've built. Be inspired!Read article →Tiles in Action
The key behind using tiles is that we give much more control to your content editors over how a page looks and feels. The first step is to agree a set of predefined tiles which will vary in functionality. It might be the case that we create a tile ready to hold something as…Read article →Debugging Great Uncle Call Stacks - to solve a recursive router rebuild error
Our automated tests for a Drupal 11 upgrade failed with a cryptic error: Recursive router rebuild detected. A bit like when cron warns about it already running, this meant something had started a router rebuild, but without finishing successfully, before another rebuild of…Read article →Translations & Multilingual Sites
With its deepest origins in Belgium, Drupal has always had to have translatable admin interfaces and translatable content. Over the last twenty years its capacity and flexibility for translation has often been a standout feature, and to this day it remains a CMS with…Read article →How Leading Manufacturers Modernise Their CMS When WordPress Stops Scaling
Many manufacturing organisations start with WordPress. It’s fast to launch, familiar to marketing teams, and flexible enough to cover most bases for smaller sites.Read article →When is Drupal the right tool for the job?
An Open Source CMS built, owned and supported by a global communityRead article →How does Drupal reduce the cost of maintaining multiple sites?
For organisations managing multiple websites, the long term ROI is not just affected by the initial build cost - it emerges over time, quietly but persistently, through duplicated effort, fragmented systems, and teams stretched thin trying to keep everything aligned. Each new…Read article →Why open source is better
With an ever shifting geo-political landscape it's more important than ever that your critical business functions can continue uninterrupted without outside interference. With open source software you can own a copy of the code that's driving your marketing pipeline or…Read article →Why Choose Drupal?
Drupal is a piece of open source software, which forms the basis of a Content Management System or CMS. We harness the numerous advantages that such a system offers in terms of security, scalability and flexibility and use it as a stable platform for the websites that we…Read article →Avoiding "black swan" Drupal disasters
Many of us with even a little project management experience have heard about the fabled "black swan" IT projects, going 300% over budget and crashing to the ground.Read article →Drupal 11 Upgrade Gotchas - Slick Carousel
Even as a seasoned Drupal developer, when upgrading a Drupal 10.x site to Drupal 11.x you can still encounter a number of weird issues with some older legacy code on the site, which had previously (unbeknownst to you) relied on functionality that has now changed in some way,…Read article →Upgrading legacy Solr servers
A client of ours has millions of items on their Drupal website that they index into Solr using the fantastic Search API Solr module.Read article →Drupal Pivot EU
In mid-January 2026 a group of business leaders in the Drupal space came together to discuss strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and more for Drupal in the coming months and years at the Drupal Pivot event in Gent, Belgium.Read article →Outgrowing Wordpress?
If you're reading this, you're either just interested or rather concerned. And so you should be! As a CXO or key decision maker, it's your responsibility to notice and act when your CMS is holding your business back.Read article →Commerce
Many vendors use Drupal as the foundation for their custom commerce platform. The wealth of available modules, and the underlying flexibility of the Drupal Commerce platform, make building and running an online sales experience easy and efficient.Read article →How do Support Contracts work for Drupal websites? What’s included?
Drupal websites are powerful and flexible but they require ongoing care to stay secure, performant, and aligned with business needs. A Drupal support contract provides that ongoing care in a predictable and flexible way.Read article →Drupal Turns 25: A Quarter-Century of Open-Source Innovation
This week, Drupal turns 25. From its beginnings as a student message board to becoming one of the world’s most powerful open-source content management platforms, Drupal’s story is one of community, innovation, and quiet influence at global scale.Read article →Multisite installations
Achieve huge savings when running multiple sitesRead article →What Should I Look for When Selecting an Agency to Migrate My Website to Drupal?
So you’ve decided Drupal is the right content management system for your website. Smart move! Drupal is powerful, flexible, and built to scale with your business.Read article →Cost effective Drupal maintenance in 2026
When people talk about “cost-effective” Drupal maintenance, they often mean one thing:Read article →Everybody wins with relevant alternatives in search results
Drupal's Views module is wonderful for listing content, but what should you show when you have nothing to list? Everybody loses if a journey ends there: your visitor has to start again, and you've missed an opportunity to help them. The likes of Amazon and eBay show alternative…Read article →How does Drupal development compare to other content management systems?
Choosing a content management system isn’t about picking the “best” platform overall — it’s about picking the right one for your project.Read article →Collect data with Webform
Are you still using Typeform / Google Forms / SurveyMonkey / Microsoft forms?Read article →When your Drupal site is costing too much
Servers and hosting setups are often taken for granted as unchangeable, often due to agency platform tie-ins or contractual agreements, and some agencies even keep the true cost a secret as part of the ‘package’.Read article →What kind of support can I expect after hiring a Drupal development company?
Hiring a Drupal development company isn’t just about getting a website built or a feature delivered. The real value often shows up after the contract is signed and the work begins. Good agencies don’t disappear once the code is written - they stick around, communicate clearly,…Read article →Let's talk
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