Drupal agency for your projects in Lyon

Our developers hold Drupal certifications (by Acquia, the company founded by the creator of Drupal) and vetted roles on Drupal.org, the status that rewards active engagement and quality contributions to the community. In fact, we contribute as often as possible by developing and maintaining new modules. We currently have more than 20, including the Page Cache Exclusion module, a performance tool already used by over 500 sites. We are also very proud to support French-speaking community events by sponsoring DrupalCamps such as the one in Rennes in 2024 and the one in Grenoble in 2026.

Accessibility and eco-design are not options added at the end of a project. They are integrated from the design stage and in our way of developing Drupal sites. Our approach is based in particular on the recommendations of the RGAA and the RGESN, with internal points of contact dedicated to accessibility and eco-design.

Our projects are concrete proof of this approach: several of our projects have achieved high scores in RGAA audits, including 99% for the Toulon site, 96% for Anact, 85% for Elior and 83% for AFT.

We also organize eco-design workshops from the UX phase in order to identify ways to reduce environmental impact even before development.

Our Drupal Starter by default includes many eco-design best practices, accessibility, and performance. This approach allows us to build Drupal sites that are more efficient, accessible, and high-performing, while industrializing their implementation.

For several years, bluedrop.fr has been developing its own tools, products and methods to standardize Drupal projects without sacrificing customization. Our Drupal Starter forms the foundation of this approach: a pre-configured, maintained, and enhanced Drupal base by our teams, which notably integrates ready-to-use components, Drupal recipes, and optimizations dedicated to performance, security, SEO, accessibility, and eco-design. It allows us to quickly start a project on a robust and proven foundation.

This logic of industrialization is also found in our products and developments: DropFactory to streamline the creation and management of Drupal sites, DropCampus for the needs of universities and educational institutions, our job board solutions and recruitment platforms, as well as our work around Drupal and artificial intelligence.

We thus capitalize on completed projects to continuously enrich our technical foundation and components. Rather than starting from scratch with every project, we reuse proven building blocks, which we customize to the specific needs of each organization. This approach allows us to reduce startup time, improve reliability in development, and dedicate more time to business challenges and user experience.

A Drupal project is about more than just development. At bluedrop.fr, we bring together all the necessary skills in-house to support your project from start to finish, without adding extra middlemen:

• Development teams with expertise in technical design, migrations to Drupal 11, multisite architectures, maintenance, and application management.
• Project managers who oversee your project from beginning to end, ensuring progress: planning, prioritization, team coordination, and meeting deadlines.
• Dedicated specialists for all related topics (accessibility, SEO, security, GDPR, eco-design) available from the design stage and throughout the project, not just at the testing phase.

This integrated organization allows us to keep all expertise within a single team, streamline communication, and ensure real continuity between consulting, design, development, production, and maintenance.

Yes. Drupal is particularly relevant for industrial companies, healthcare players and scientific organizations who need a scalable corporate website, a business platform, an intranet, or a multisite ecosystem. Its fine-tuned content and permission management, integration capabilities, and API-driven approach make it possible to connect the site to the company’s tools and data.

bluedrop.fr develops Drupal platforms for organizations with complex business requirements. In the healthcare sector, for example, we have developed a comprehensive business application for a mutual insurance company, with contract management, quotes, payments, user spaces, and personalized simulators, combining Drupal and Angular. In the industrial sector, our work with Polyvia Formation and Allizé Plasturgie also demonstrates our ability to design platforms dedicated to the training, employment, and content management needs of a professional industry.

We support businesses, large accounts, SMEs, institutions, local authorities, public establishments, universities and research organizations, in Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and throughout France.

In this region, our clients include professional organizations such as Polyvia Solutions (formerly Polyvia Formation) in the plastics industry, national agencies such as Anact, organizations in training and higher education such as Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University or Greta de Grenoble, as well as community sites like that of the Lyon Municipal Library.

Drupal is particularly suited to institutional and public websites that need to manage large volumes of content, multiple contributor profiles and have high requirements for accessibility, security, and editorial governance. Its architecture also allows the site to connect to directories, APIs, business applications, or existing information systems.

Since 2007, bluedrop.fr has supported institutions, local authorities, universities, and public organizations in designing, redesigning, hosting, and maintaining Drupal platforms. Our approach integrates from the outset considerations of digital accessibility, performance, SEO, GDPR, and eco-design. We have notably developed platforms for Anact and are currently working on those for Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University and the Lyon Municipal Library.

A Drupal 11 migration is not simply about updating the CMS. It requires auditing the existing setup, mapping content and functionalities, identifying the modules and custom development to be retained, then preparing the migration of data and URLs. Preserving SEO notably involves transferring content, metadata, relevant URLs and setting up the necessary redirects.

bluedrop supports Drupal migrations, especially from Drupal 7, with a methodology that includes technical auditing, transferring configurations and content, adapting custom developments, testing, and deployment. We also take advantage of the migration to Drupal 11 to improve editorial architecture, performance, accessibility, and site maintainability.

No. bluedrop.fr is based in Marseille and operates throughout France, sometimes even for international clients. Our teams work remotely or travel to the site as needed for the project.

It is particularly active in the Lyon area, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, especially for organizations in Grenoble, Saint-Étienne, Villeurbanne, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy.