Drupal 8 Migration Services
With more than 50% growth in adoption over the last year, Drupal 8 is growing rapidly. To upgrade or to migrate – This question has hit many nerves. And why not, it’s a decision that will impact your budget and future.
Whether upgrading from Drupal 7 to 8 or migrating a complete another CMS to Drupal 8, our professional Drupal 8 developers can assist you with a secure migration. We provide a full suite of Drupal 8 related services including design, development, integration, and maintenance.
Equipped with best D8 experts we have assisted businesses of all sizes to achieve smoother migration to Drupal 8.
Key Features of Drupal 8
With more than 200 new features and enhacements, Drupal 8 provides new ways to tailor and deploy content that looks great on any device. We can help your business in migration or upgrading your existing website to Drupal 8 migration.
Mobile Initiative
Drupal 8 upgrade will offer built-in responsive themes, along with an admin theme that adapts to different screen sizes.
Multi-lingual
Drupal 8 migrate will help the site owners to have built-in translations in the admin interface. It also allow to create different pages with language-based views filtering
More HTML5 Power
Switching to Drupal 8 will give you the access to input fields like date, email, phone, etc., and advanced functionality and compatibility with mobile and handheld devices
Faster Page Loads
While Symfony 2, a lighter and faster core offers tons more capabilities for modules and themes. These changes and more are key reasons to migrate to Drupal 8.
Web Services Built-In
Drupal 8 makes it possible to use itself as a data source, and output content as JSON or XML. Admin can even post data back to Drupal 8 from the front end easily.
Quick Edits
It’s a backport of the Drupal 8 in-place editing for Fields which allows to edit the text directly for quick fixes and additions from the front-end.
Why Upgrade to Drupal 8?
We use agile Drupal 8 design and development project methodology to create award winning, creative Drupal solutions and sites. Armed with world class team of Drupal 8 developers, we offer fast, professional, efficient engagement model for Drupal 8 design services.
Armed with top drupal 8 developers, we have delivered Drupal 8 website design, development, theme customization to businesses of all sizes. Still thinking to migrate your exsiting Drupal website to Drupal 8 or not? Here we have compiled the quick comparison between Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.
Features |  |  |
|---|---|---|
 Mark-up Language | XHTML markup | Semantic HTML5 markup |
 Mobile Responsiveness | Older versions of Drupal till version 7 were not mobile responsive. | Mobile responsive themes which makes it accessible to mobile & tablet. |
 Editing with CkEditor | Does not utilize CkEditor | Chipped in the CkEditor which brings many of the powerful WYSIWYG editing functions. |
 Theming engine | Uses PHPTemplate as the default theme engine which had chances of unclean code and increased security issues | Uses Twig as a theming engine which is flexible, fast, and secure. |
 Front End Libraries | Had only jQuery v2.x in front end libraries | With jQuery v2.x, Drupal 8 includes more front-end libraries - Modernizr, Underscore.js and Backbone.js |
 CSS and JavaScript | To add CSS or JS to a particular page, require to use the drupal_add_css() and drupal_add_js() functions | With the enhanced enhanced CSS and JavaScript aggregation, you just require to attach JS/CSS assets in the #attached property of a render array using libraries |
 Multilingual Add-ons | Multilingual Add-ons which are compatible with Google translator are not present | Drupal 8 has excellent Multilingual Add-ons which are compatible with Google translator. |
 Views | "Views” is a contributed module | "Views” is a part of core in Drupal 8 which helps in quicker creation and modification and deletion of pages and admin sections. |
 Drag and Drop Feature | Drag and drop option to upload files could be achieved only by installing contributed module | Easy drag and drop option to upload files is available in core |
 REST API REST | The RESTful Web Services API is not present in Drupal 7. | The RESTful Web Services API is avaialble which enables external apps to modify and read data. |
 Symfony framework | Does not include Symfony framework | Uses Symfony framework which makes code easy to maintain, scale, and reuse. |
 Field Validation | Fields were not validated in Drupal 7 | Fields for validated automatically in Drupal 8 and a relevant link is displayed near it accordingly. |
 OOP Concepts | Has less Object Oriented Programming concepts | More Object Oriented Programming concepts |
Our Approach Towards Upgrading Drupal 7 to 8
Technical Architecture
Site Build & Front-End Development
Drupal Development
Content Migration
Site Performance Optimization
Drupal 8 Migration Checklist
Research
Evaluate
Backups
Integrations
Final Audit
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