Laguna Beach Drupal Website Development | Aryosys Web Technologies

If your business website needs are primarily informational, Drupal is the perfect platform to build it on. Based on a powerful Content Management System (CMS), Drupal makes the creation, management and display of content straightforward. If you require custom functionality, Drupal’s comprehensive backend and frontend frameworks allow for unlimited possibilities, resulting in systems that are extensible, scalable, secure and future-proof.

At Aryosys, we specialize in Drupal development, working primarily with businesses from Orange County cities such as Laguna Beach. From implementing your bespoke business style, configuring your website, custom module development and API/SaaS integrations, through to the deployment, hosting and maintenance of your website, we are with you every step of the way.

Theme Implementation

Once our creative team has worked with you to perfect your Laguna Beach business website’s look and feel, the designs need to be taken from flattened images and turned into a fully functional website. This is where our development team steps in.

Working closely with our designers, we extract all of the components that make your design unique such as the color scheme, font styles, and imagery, and build the theme using our expert knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript. By following the style guide set out by the creative team, we can ensure that every page of the website seamlessly integrates with your company branding.

The look and feel is not the only consideration when we develop a custom theme. We also ensure that all of our websites are responsive (so they look great on everything from a small phone screen all the way to an HD monitor), perform well (by using optimization techniques to make sure the pages load as quickly as possible), and are accessible (complying with WCAG accessibility guidelines) as required.

Custom Module Development

Drupal is an extensive platform that offers a great number of features for your website straight out of the box. On top of that, it is supported by a large community of developers offering free modules that extend that core functionality (we only ever select trusted modules that are covered by Drupal’s security policy). Despite all this, sometimes the available features simply don’t meet the vision or requirements of a business.

Our developers know the inner workings of Drupal like the back of their hands. That puts us in the Ideal position to create custom modules especially for your business, providing the exact functionality you need, whether on the customer-facing website, or backend tools for your staff to use.

Modules we have created in the past range from simple (forms that perform calculations, slideshows and other interactive widgets, integrated video players), through intermediate (event registrations, online payment processing with auditing and receipts, custom database searches), to entire web applications with sophisticated frontends and backend management tools (e-learning platforms, mortgage rate searches, software application API documentation, intranets, extranets and CRMs).

Third-Party Integrations

Many Laguna Beach companies rely on digital services provided by other third parties to keep their business running smoothly. Such services can range from marketing and analytics, maps and location searches, through to reservation booking and job listings and applications.

Our experienced team is adept at facilitating integrations with all manner of third-party services, allowing us to augment your website with all of the functionality that your business needs.

Examples of the many services we have integrated in the past include Authorize.net (payments), SalesForce (customer management), Twilio (SMS messaging), TruCommerce (inventory management), Google products (Maps, Anayltics, Ads), SmartyStreets (address lookups), HubSpot and MailChimp (marketing). We’ve even integrated websites with proprietary software hosted on company networks such as in-house CRMS and stock control systems.

API Development

In direct contrast to third-party integrations, there are times when you need the ability for external systems to interact with your website backend. Requirements can range from simple data lookups to posting or manipulating data.

We achieve this by developing custom APIs (Application Programming Interface) as part of a Drupal website. Using one or more endpoints (URLs), we can expose functionality to outside systems to send or request data from the website backend, to whatever specifications you require.

As a security-first company, all of our API solutions are created with security at the forefront, using techniques such as security keys and IP whitelisting to protect systems from abuse.

Site Configuration

Once your website theme is in place and any custom development has been completed, before the website can go live it needs to be configured to ensure all essential settings are in place and the website is fine-tuned for optimal performance.

As we have been building and launching Drupal websites since 2009, we are experts in the configuration process. We will make sure that the everything is in place to achieve the fastest page load times (caching, aggregation and compression), highest security (suspicious activity monitoring, CAPTCHAs, backend IP restrictions), uninterrupted email delivery, SEO basics (sitemap, redirects, URL aliases), and any other configurations that your website needs to launch smoothly.

Hosting, Maintenance & Support

Your website is built, configured and ready to launch. But that’s just the beginning of your relationship with Aryosys. We host, maintain and support all of our customers’ websites to guarantee the continued high performance and availability that are crucial for your Laguna Beach business.

Amazon Web Services is our hosting service of choice, and with our deep knowledge and understanding of the fine details of the platform, we are able to optimize the server to provide everything that’s required to get the most out of Drupal. We stay on top of Drupal, module and system upgrades so as soon as they become available, you can rest easy knowing that everything has been updated to ensure maximum security and performance. And remember that just because your website has gone live, it’s not a closed box - if you need additional functionality as your business needs evolve, we can apply any of our development services just like we do with a brand new project.