Technologies

The Technologies Behind Our Auto Dealer Microsite Solutions

Your Content + Our Expertise + Drupal Technology

Clients and customers find websites because search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, and AOL provide links in response to searches for information. These search engines provide the green light for your website traffic.

That's where WebsitesForAutoDealers.com come in. We've put together the right mix of your content, our expertise in search engine optimization, and the power of a content management system (Drupal) that virtually ensures potential customers get the green light directing them to your automotive site.

What Drupal Is & What It Will Do for You

Drupal is an open source website content management system (CMS), widely regarded by the website development community as the best platform for constructing complex websites that are search engine-friendly. Thousands of businesses, non-profit organizations, and governments around the globe use Drupal to power their corporate websites, social networking sites, e-commerce stores, intranets, and more. As a website development platform, Drupal provides the essential foundation for building, managing, and growing any scale, type, and configuration of Internet presence you require.

WebsitesForAutoDealers.com has heavily customized Drupal to make it easy for you to set up, fill with content, and manage. Using our ready-made automotive turnkey solutions, you can quickly get a corporate or microsite up and running in as little as 24 hours. We've made it super easy for you to use, but if you get in a bind we have lots of support to get you through to success.

Below, we've listed some high-level benefits of our automotive solutions built on Drupal.

Drupal Is Free

The cost of a Drupal software license is exactly $0, zilch, zip, nada. Since Drupal is open source, the code is freely available to anyone to use and modify. This means no license fees for the software, no vendor ‘lock ins’ or annual update or maintenance/support fees.

Drupal Saves Time & Money

Content creation has traditionally taken a great deal of time and expertise and been a huge bottleneck for small- and medium-sized businesses. No longer. Drupal’s interface is intuitive and makes the creation and updating of content easy, without requiring expensive consultants or employee training and downtime.

Drupal Manages Content Workflow

With Drupal, every user (visitor & authenticated user) is assigned one or more Roles. Roles define what a user can and cannot do. For example, you can define a role that allows someone to create and edit content, but not publish it so it's visible on your site. Someone else can be assigned that role. In addition, all revisions of content are archived along with who edited them. You can publish any one of them and even compare the differences. This enables you to design a workflow specifically for your business. All of this is managed by Drupal for you.

Drupal Keeps Pace with Your Business

Perhaps you have your own IT department with Drupal and web development expertise and can take care of all your development needs inhouse. But, if you don't, you can rely on us for any and all of your support and development services, future upgrades, feature and security enhancements, as well as solutions to design problems. There's no technical or design issue that we cannot handle. That’s real support.

Drupal Keeps Getting Better

Drupal is supported by a dedicated, global network of thousands of developers. It is constantly being enhanced with new functionality and improvements. Since it is so widely disseminated and used, there is a vast knowledgebase available to you in addition to ours that is full of additional support for any problem or issue.

Drupal has Integrated E-commerce

Our e-commerce solution is called "Commerce." It is a series of Drupal modules which we have fully and seamlessly integrated into your website! A separate URL is not necessary. The Commerce services run entirely inside the Drupal framework and include security. Flexible permissions settings allow you to choose only those that you trust to handle the e-commerce of your website. Commerce also includes such features as payment and shipping components, transaction and payment workflow and reports, sales summaries, and shipping notifications.

Here are some of the features of our Ecommerce solutions:

• SSL Certificates
• Acceptance of PayPal payments
• Merchant Accounts
• Site Traffic Statistics