Drupal ยท since 2008
Drupal at institutional scale.
That’s our home court.
For 18 years, Drupal has been our deepest platform. We build the kind of large, complex, multi-stakeholder Drupal sites that most agencies quietly hand off to subcontractors: higher-ed admissions, civic platforms, multi-brand enterprise. Acquia Platinum partner. Drupal Association contributor.
What’s included
Six things you get with every engagement.
01 ยท DISCOVERY
Discovery that pays back tenfold.
Four to six weeks of stakeholder interviews, content audits, governance mapping, and competitive teardowns before a single pixel moves. The work that makes everything else go fast.
02 ยท IA & DESIGN
IA & design that hold.
Information architecture, content modeling, and a complete design system you can keep using.
03 ยท BUILD
Build by senior humans.
No offshore handoffs. The team that pitched you is the team writing the code.
04 ยท A11Y
WCAG 2.2 baked in.
Accessibility is a constraint we design from. Not a phase we tack on at the end.
05 ยท MIGRATION
Content migration with zero downtime. We’ve done thousands of pages, with redirects and SEO inheritance baked in.
06 ยท TRAINING
Editor training baked in too.
Capabilities
What we actually do for you.
- Custom theme and block development
- Multi-site and multi-brand setup
- CMS migrations (cross-platform or version)
- Content modeling & taxonomy design
- Editor experience & workflow design
- Performance audits & optimization
- Personalization & A/B testing infrastructure
- Headless / decoupled architecture
- Plugin / module development
- Long-term hosting & support partnerships
Selected work
Recent case studies.
City of Rancho CucamongaView case study →
Online Virginia NetworkView case study →
ASU Alumni AssociationView case study →
Lincoln Land Community CollegeView case study →
Irvine Unified School DistrictView case study →
City of Chandler ArizonaView case study →
Palmer CollegeView case study →
Hungry HowiesView case study →
Old Dominion UniversityView case study →
CaltechView case study →
ABOView case study →
Washington State UniversityView case study →
Occidental CollegeView case study →
Broward County ElectionsView case study →
ODU GlobalView case study →
Scholastic Art & Writing AwardsView case study →
UMass GlobalView case study →
Mission CollegeView case study →
What clients say in writing
KWALL did an excellent job and had an intuitive knowledge of our project that built on attributes of similar websites that we admired. KWALL’s work was quick and thorough, and everyone at KWALL was easy to work with and friendly.
FAQ
Questions worth asking.
What makes KWALL’s Drupal work different from a generalist agency that also does Drupal?
Drupal has been our deepest platform for 18 years. We’re an Acquia and Pantheon Strategic Partner and Drupal contributor. We build the complex, multi-stakeholder Drupal sites, higher-ed admissions, civic platforms, multi-brand enterprise, that most agencies hand off to subcontractors. The engineers on your project are the same ones who built those sites.
What hosting platform do you build Drupal sites on?
Pantheon is our primary platform for Drupal, where we hold a strategic Partner status. For clients with specific infrastructure requirements, we also build on Acquia or client-managed hosting. We don’t recommend commodity shared hosting for institutional Drupal sites.
How do you handle content governance for sites with many editors across departments?
Content modeling and editorial governance are where we spend significant time in discovery. We design role structures, workflow states, and content type hierarchies that give department editors autonomy over their sections without exposing the whole site to accidental changes. This is standard practice on every multi-stakeholder build.
Can you build multisite or multi-brand Drupal installations?
Yes. We’ve built several multi-brand and multisite Drupal installations for enterprise and higher-ed clients with shared design systems and separate editorial environments per brand or school. We scope these carefully upfront because the architecture decisions early on have long-term consequences.
How long does a new Drupal build typically take?
Five to twelve months depending on scope: number of content types, custom integrations (CRM, SIS, event systems), complexity of the design system, and migration volume. We can give you a narrower estimate after a two-week discovery engagement.
Made it to the bottom? You’re our kind of person.
Two ways from here. Skim the work and see if we’d be a fit, or send a quick note through the form. The founder reads them.
p.s. we will respond. by Tuesday at the latest.