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Archimedes
Archimedes is a Drupal CMS site template built specifically for education providers, including primary schools, secondary schools, and day facilities. Its purpose is to provide a clear and effective platform for keeping parents, teachers, staff, and the wider school community informed about key information and events.
The template offers a robust foundation for building school websites, educational resource hubs, and community portals with minimal setup effort. It includes example content and preconfigured structures to help content creators quickly publish high-quality pages.
By combining configuration, design components, and carefully selected contributed modules, Archimedes enables educational institutions to launch a professional Drupal website significantly faster than building from scratch.
Key Highlights include:
- Preconfigured Drupal CMS recipes and modules: Built on the latest Drupal 11 standards to ensure stability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Canvas-based visual layout components: Enables editors to create rich, component-driven landing pages and bespoke content layouts without requiring development or coding expertise.
- Eureka Design System integration: Includes a modern, accessible frontend theme tailored to the needs of educational environments.
- Comprehensive content ecosystem: Out-of-the-box support for:
- News and blog content
- Vacancy listings
- Flexible, unstructured landing pages
- Automated workflows: Uses ECA (Event Condition Action) to support configurable site logic, notifications, and automation.
- Professional communication tools: Integrated Easy Email support and robust anti-spam protections, including Honeypot.
- SEO and media ready: Preconfigured Pathauto, Metatag, and Media Library to support a strong and polished digital presence.
- Privacy-focused: Built-in cookie consent functionality via Klaro to support compliance requirements
Typical use cases include:
- Primary and secondary school websites
- Educational resource and knowledge hubs
- School district or multi-academy trust portals
- Teacher and staff recruitment platforms
- School community and alumni engagement sites
Frequently asked questions
Simplytest is a great service. We were in fact inspired by it. If you have not tried it, you should try it out. Seriously. Here's the link. Drupal Forge is a community service - just like Simplytest. Here are the similarities and differences:
- Like Simplytest, Drupal Forge (DF) lets you create 6 hour temporary disposable Drupal Dev sites.
- On DF, you can optionally add a Cloud Dev Environment (CDE) to your Drupal Dev sites.
- With a CDE, your Dev sites are automatically paused at after 6-hours instead of getting deleted.
- You can un-pause your sites and continue where you left off.
- You can keep extending the working life of your Dev sites (in increments of 6 hours).
- With a CDE, you get a browser-based VS Code IDE (aka Cloud IDE), pre-installed with Composer and Drush.
- Full access to the MySQL database with PhpMyAdmin - a browser-based db admin tool.
- Invite and collaborate with other developers on the Code IDE - think parallel programming.
- Download your site and use it on your Local Dev Environment.
- Go live with your site - deploy it to an external server on Digital Ocean, Light Sail, etc. Connect your custom URL to it. Maintain the Dev site on DF.