Amazee Labs Web development will celebrate the release of Drupal 8 in Cape Town this evening.
Drupal open source content management software provides modular, flexible and scalable tools for developing Web sites and applications, with no licensing fees.
The software's latest release ultimately puts responsive Web design first, says Jason Lewis, interaction designer and partner at Amazee Labs Cape Town.
Drupal 8 offers easier content authoring and better device and language adaptability, and digital ecosystem integrations.
Content creators using Drupal 8 are offered an integrated wysiwig (what you see is what you get) editor, as well as an on-page editor for navigating the site.
Drupal 8 is designed to integrate easily with the various elements of user organisations' digital ecosystems, such as e-mail, analytics, and marketing automation. It also engineers Web sites that are responsive to the various mobile devices on which they are accessed.
The release of Drupal 8 also forms a prominent step towards more global support, in the form of simpler and more reliable translation and multilingual integration.
Drupal functions using core modules that come with the initial download, as well as additional modules the user downloads based on their specific needs, explains Michael Schmid, CTO at Amazee Labs and member of the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative.
With Drupal 7, users need to download 29 different modules to translate a Drupal site into a different language, Schmid explains. Translating a Drupal Web site involves knowledge of which modules are needed, and can take several days, he says. "The amount of possibilities for failure is really, really big."
Drupal 8 packages translation functionality into the software's core, so users need only four modules to translate a site, which makes the process much easier and faster, and the margin for error smaller, announces Schmid.
Amazee Labs' release event will take place at Friends of Design in Bree Street, Cape Town at 6pm on Thursday, 19 November.
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