Creating the official website for Sree Murugan Tile Works was more than just a technical project—it was a very important experience that merged my passion for personal computing with my business needs.
I chose Drupal 11 as the CMS, as I have decades of experience with it. Hosted on AWS EC2 Linux, with MariaDB running in a Docker container. Running Drupal on a container must make sense, but I chose to install it on the system directly to keep it simple. The theme is based on Bootstrap 5, customized using Sass to achieve a clean, mobile-first layout. I structured the site around our core products—roofing tiles, flooring tiles, and wall tiles—adding content types, taxonomies, and views to manage everything flexibly.
One challenge was optimizing performance of images. Seems PNG, though offering transparency, does not help when it comes to image size! Drupal comes with many SEO ready reatures - Clean URLs, sitemaps, meta data etc to made sure our site was crawlable and fast-loading.
It brought together my interests in computing, creativity, and communication. If you're a DIYer or enthusiast, building your own business site is a project worth taking up.
Sree Murugan Tile Works is the manufacturer of terracotta (clay) tiles for flooring, roofing, facade walls and decorative tiles. Gopuram Brand is very popular since 1958! Visit Sree Murugan Tile Works website!
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