45 Amazing Sites Built With and Powered by Drupal

by john, October 24th 2009, in

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For bloggers, especially in the design community, one content management system (CMS) seems to be preferred over all others. Almost every blog that I make a habit of visiting daily uses WordPress. DesignBump, both the originals sections and the user powered news portion, uses Drupal exclusively. I love Drupal for its immense expandability. With all the user contributed modules available, anything is possible.

Drupal is like a giant bucket of Legos: There are enough pieces to make whatever you want, you just have to figure out how to put them together.

Check out the Facebook, Twitter, and Basecamp clones made using nothing but Drupal. The functionality is there, along with proven scalability. I know they aren't the prettiest but isn't that what designers are for?

I understand why WordPress has grown so quickly and was adopted so eagerly. The admin interface is arguably much more user friendly, the CMS itself is much easier to setup and implement, and with so many designers creating themes for WordPress there are a lot more options to help beautify a blog. Drupal shouldn't be neglected though! For those that aren't in the know, here is a list of 45 amazing and well put together Drupal sites from across internet. Enjoy!

P.S. If there are any other amazing Drupal sites I left out please leave them in the comments!

Not all design sites use WordPress:

Geeks know how to get the best bang for their buck:

Drupal in the corporate world:

Drupal takes over the music world:

Drupal powers the written word:

Drupal powers the big boys (and you thought Drupal didn't scale):

Drupal helps change the world:

Notable Mentions:

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37 Comments

JakieMoon

There are cool templates in the beginning drupal was awful, now is better but it not perfect it is still hard to work with
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Anonymous

zoomla is much powerful..

Anonymous

drupal is powerful. but I think Zoomla is much better..

Anonymous

great sites with drupal. I my self dont like wordpress much. all good sites are not on wordpress...

Anonymous

Great list. I'm amazed at how easy it is to put up a quality website today now that we have all these great CMS products. Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress (pick your poison) are great for both individual and business sites. The wealth of plugins and themes/templates allow you to create a high quality site in an hour.

free energy

Thanks for pointing out some of the other great sites built with Drupal!

Anonymous

Thank you so much for this article. It has been a real inspiration, and has given me new found energy for blogging.

Anonymous

I'm huge fan of WordPress, and I'm running over 10 wp sites, 'cause it is simple. But I'm also aware of Drupal's power, as it's shown on http://www.barackobama.com/. But now I must create something similar to facebook; a small online community and I'm seriously thinking of Drupal.

Anonymous

Drupal is only great for large sites. However, if you want to build say a portfolio site its overly complicated. I would recommend "textpattern" or "expression engine" CMS. The learning curve for drupal is too steep.

Anonymous

I really like the Drupal designs comparing to Wordpress,I'd like to give it a try but am bit nervous as I heard it is not the easiest platform to learn and get used to.

Anonymous

thanks.

Anonymous

The sites are great. I haven't visited them all, but they all look great. Thanks for sharing.

Anonymous

Amen

I just found this website (designbump) AND I LOVE IT.
Keep it up dudes :)

And I am trying to install drupal but it doesn't let me :/

Anonymous

We also run our site on drupal. Switch On The Code. We get about 300k+ pageviews a month.

Anonymous

That's great list John .. i didn't know the power of Drupal .. i am hard core wordpress fan .. i wil check drupal too

Anonymous

Is Drupal easy for someone like me also?? I am a non programming background guy...though i am aware completely of WEB2.0.
Can some help me learn/know more about Drupal??
My email is suhail@twiwo.com

Anonymous

Hi,

I tried to add image but I don't know how to do this
Can anyone be kind to tell me how?

thanks a lot

Anonymous

Truly a great list.. Thanks for including me http://pras.net.np

Anonymous

Don't forget a recent addition: www.whitehouse.gov :-)

Anonymous

You forgot about http://sisters4peace.net in the change the world space!

Anonymous

I never imagined that Ubuntu.com was built on Drupal.
Amazing article.

Ionox

Great article - my blog is build with Joomla!, also one of the "bigger CMS'ses".

I've never worked with Drupal, but it seems pretty powerful!

hish

See this site www.shoofeetv.com it is also build with drupal

Anonymous

Joomla is far superior to Drupal.

Anonymous

I would like to see you prove it..

Anonymous

Someone forgot to include my site: www.NYWellnessGuide.com ;)
Good list though. I wish there more designers involved in the evolution of Drupal. It seems that it's driven by developers mostly, that's why it's lagging behind Wordpress in terms of diversity of designs.

Anonymous

Drupal is like a giant bucket of Legos: There are enough pieces to make whatever you want, you just have to figure out how to put them together.

That's a great quote and exactly how I feel about Drupal.

Thanks for the list.

Clippingimages

Awesome sites. Truly unbelievable. Thanks for sharing this awesome collection of website powered drupal. :)

Anonymous

Really nice to see all these big sites making use of such a powerful CMS. you can see more drupal examples @ http://drupalbased.com and drupalsites.net