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Overview

Our company has a lot of experience in custom web development, where you need to generate most things from scratch. However, this approach is not always the best. In many cases, it is far more convenient to build upon 'the shoulders of giants', and the Open Source community provides some stunning starting points.

Particularly in the area of CMS (Content Management Systems), web-sites built on top of an open-source source system count on the following advantages:

  • The base system is tested and used by millions around the world. 
  • Every good open-source CMS system allows for great flexibility to be customized and extended. 
  • There are thousands of freely available extension modules, and the list is growing by the hour. 
  • The systems are designed to provide great performance and scalability.
  • You can be confident that the CMS producer won't disappear overnight.
  • The cost of having a site extremely rich in features is a fraction of what it would be for a totally custom one.
  • New versions of the core system and modules are available frequently, and for free.

Our web-developers have a perfect knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, various scripting languages and many other things needed for web-building and web-support of the highest level.

We have fine tuned our development process for this kind of projects, and have clear workflows that integrate the work of feature definition, configuration, module selection and configuration, custom development, graphical design, skinning and testing. 

Our team has experience working with Joomla!, WordPress and Drupal. The latter is our specialty.

Why Drupal?

While Joomla! and WordPress are very good products, we find out Drupal to be a more complete, robust, scalable and overall powerful platform. It does usually require a bit more work than its two closest competitors, but the gain in capacity and sheer value greatly surpass that extra effort. 

We have implemented a variety of solutions based on Drupal, ranging from a news portal, a music channel website, a full-scale business directory, to several Social Network communities (one for vision-impaired people, other for design fanatics) and Charity sites. And of course, this very site is based on Drupal 7!

Our expertise in Drupal includes:

  • Drupal implementations: we help you 'drupalize' your ideas.
  • Module development: do you need something not provided by an already existent module? we can build it.
  • Migrations: migrate your proprietary CMS, Drupal 4.x, 5.x or plain HTML to Drupal 6.x or 7.x
  • Integrations: integrating Drupal with your ERP or CRM systems (or any system you need to integrate with!)
  • Theme Development: convert your custom design into Drupal, with all features realized.
  • Support and Maintenance: do you already have a Drupal site and need to enhance or to support it? You can count with us.

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Our Clients Say

"We have been very pleased with our experience with Summa Solutions. When we looked for a partnership for our development needs, Summa had the skills, process and procedures that mapped well into our environment.We have been very impressed with not only the development talent but the architectural expertise as well. We look forward to continuing our strong working relationship."
Eduardo Don Jr.
President
Lumen21
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Leandro Caruso
Director
KNACK
"Summa has been great to work with on a variety of projects. The team is knowledgeable, asks thoughtful questions, tests thoroughly and provides a well-rounded team to meet the requirements.  We have enjoyed working with them and will continue to look to them for projects in the future!"
Amanda Brooks
e-Commerce Discipline Lead
Digital Evolution Group - http://www.digitalev.com/

Why Summa Solutions

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