{"id":4624,"date":"2020-05-04T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:56:32","slug":"why-drupal-cms-is-the-best-platform-for-creating-an-emergency-website-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-drupal-cms-is-the-best-platform-for-creating-an-emergency-website-during-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Why Drupal CMS is the Best Platform for Creating an Emergency Website During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-drupal-cms-is-the-best-platform-for-creating-an-emergency-website-during-covid-19\/#Solid_Foundation_for_Covid-19_Response_with_Drupal_8\" title=\"Solid Foundation for Covid-19 Response with Drupal 8\">Solid Foundation for Covid-19 Response with Drupal 8<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-drupal-cms-is-the-best-platform-for-creating-an-emergency-website-during-covid-19\/#The_UIUX_Approach_Using_Drupal_to_Create_an_Emergency_Website\" title=\"The UI\/UX Approach Using Drupal to Create an Emergency Website\">The UI\/UX Approach Using Drupal to Create an Emergency Website<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-drupal-cms-is-the-best-platform-for-creating-an-emergency-website-during-covid-19\/#Drupal_8_Development_Helps_to_Consider_Different_Emergency_Situations\" title=\"Drupal 8 Development Helps to Consider Different Emergency Situations:\">Drupal 8 Development Helps to Consider Different Emergency Situations:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-drupal-cms-is-the-best-platform-for-creating-an-emergency-website-during-covid-19\/#Fast_and_High_Performance_Websites\" title=\"Fast and High Performance Websites:\">Fast and High Performance Websites:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/why-drupal-cms-is-the-best-platform-for-creating-an-emergency-website-during-covid-19\/#Other_Factors_that_can_Drive_Success\" title=\"Other Factors that can Drive Success:\">Other Factors that can Drive Success:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Any crucial situation of crisis can always put your website to test and this has proved in the current situation of covid-19 outbreak. With social distancing and lockdown followed all over the world, it has become heavier than usual reliance on online communications. People are also looking at websites for updated and authoritative information that is specific to their location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Emergency response has recently gained much prominence like never before and today Government organizations and businesses are taking a lot of care about how to deal with the present situation. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/drupal-development\/\">Drupal website development services<\/a><\/span> are helping to create emergency response websites with features that are easy to handle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here in this blog, we will see how Drupal 8 development helps to create emergency response websites during this global crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Solid_Foundation_for_Covid-19_Response_with_Drupal_8\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>Solid Foundation for Covid-19 Response with Drupal 8<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Drupal is a popular and flexible content management system that helps to communicate the essential information to the visitors through easy to use, user friendly, responsive websites.\u00a0 It helps to support the organization\u2019s goals that are on the front lines and offers reliable and secured site and timely updates during the period of pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_UIUX_Approach_Using_Drupal_to_Create_an_Emergency_Website\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>The UI\/UX Approach Using Drupal to Create an Emergency Website<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Design plays a crucial role in every website and during this time it is all the more important to create a website that is user oriented and highly functions for an emergency website. Here we are talking about all the means to reach out to people who might face some of the most difficult moments in their life and need to gather information very fast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Drupal 8 development has a very good user interface, which is very easy to navigate and the user experience should be designed in a way that considers the psychological conditions that people usually face during an emergency. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/drupal-development\/\">Drupal 8 website development companies<\/a><\/span> can help to cover all the design aspects and encompass an appropriately diverse audience. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">User testing is important and Drupal development is an ideal platform at this time. For example, if you have plans to design a site during the Covid -19 pandemic, then the developers should keep elderly people into consideration and based on that the user interface should be designed so that they can use it easily without any hassles.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/blog\/the-journey-of-drupal-from-1-0-to-drupal-8\">The Journey of Drupal from 1.0 To Drupal 8<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Drupal_8_Development_Helps_to_Consider_Different_Emergency_Situations\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Drupal 8 Development Helps to Consider Different Emergency Situations:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">During the lockdown period we are all engaged more with our mobiles and Drupal helps to easily create a responsive website to handle the emergency situation. It helps to prioritize and put user scenarios together for various situations that can be accessed from both the desktop and the mobile devices. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/dedicated-drupal-developer\/\">Drupal developers<\/a><\/span> can easily categorize the viewers and based on that they can create the menus that can help to reveal information quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For example, quick assistance numbers, chat options with the doctors, a screen reader to the blind and etc. Drupal services help to maximize the findability by allowing high contrast colors, clear type hierarchy, classic interface colors, plain text. It also allows the developers to ensure that in the code, all menu items, buttons and other interface elements are labeled clearly for the screen reader users.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fast_and_High_Performance_Websites\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Fast and High Performance Websites:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Another most important factor that Drupal takes into consideration is the website speed.\u00a0 It helps the users to access the site without having much waiting time and Drupal sites are typically speedy and highly performance. While these emergency sites won\u2019t offer a lot of large images and videos, developers can employ codes that prioritize the delivery of information so that it reaches the users as fast as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_Factors_that_can_Drive_Success\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Other Factors that can Drive Success:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Drupal CMS offers WYSISYG editor, which offers a high degree of flexibility that enables non-technical members to easily communicate and perform in line editing, create new pages, update alerts, add them to the menu, ember videos and images.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Drupal site uses Paragraphs, a Drupal module that allows the regions of a page to be easily interchangeable by the content editors and those having high level of permissions can easily publish the content on live websites.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This in a nutshell, choosing <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/drupal-development\/\">Drupal for developing emergency websites<\/a><\/span> ensures that you have the right platform to handle crucial situations and we at IDS Logic can best use every Drupal 8 feature to empower emergency projects across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/blog\/top-drupal-cms-modules-that-help-to-create-an-engaging-enterprise-website\">Top Drupal CMS Modules that Help to Create an Engaging Enterprise Website<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any crucial situation of crisis can always put your website to test and this has proved in the current situation of covid-19 outbreak. 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