Drupal Development Agency
Marameo is a Drupal Association member agency with over 20 years’ experience building complex digital platforms for health research institutes, universities, and purpose-driven organisations across Australia and Europe.
We specialise in complex content architectures, multi-audience platforms, and deep system integrations.
Trusted by research institutes, universities and health organisations
CUSTOM DRUPAL DEVELOPMENT
Custom Drupal development for complex organisations
Drupal is the platform of choice for organisations with complex, high-stakes digital requirements. It’s where we do some of our most interesting work.
Health research institutes, universities and purpose-driven organisations have digital requirements that go well beyond a standard website build. Complex data architectures, researcher-facing systems, multi-region content, strict accessibility obligations, these are the briefs we’ve been taking on for over 20 years.
Clients include The George Institute for Global Health, The National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, the American University of Rome, The University of NSW, and Generali Investments.
WHAT WE BUILD AND HOW
Our Drupal website development services
Custom Drupal module and theme development
When standard modules don’t match your workflows, we build custom. Our developers are active contributors to the Drupal community and have built modules for research publication feeds, researcher profile systems, multi-region content targeting, clinical data display, and complex taxonomy management.
Our front-end team builds component-based theme systems designed for long-term editorial flexibility. Your editors can build and update pages without developer involvement every time.
Drupal migrations and version upgrades
All Drupal versions up to 9 have reached end-of-life.
If your organisation hasn’t migrated yet, the security exposure is real.
We’ve completed upgrades for four major sites simultaneously, including The George Institute and NCIRS: two organisations where downtime or data loss was not an option. Before any migration, we audit your current content types, data relationships, custom modules, and integrations. The architecture comes before the code.
Third-party API and system integrations
We’ve integrated Drupal platforms with research publication databases, SOLR search engines, Salesforce, clinical scheduling systems, Mailchimp, payment gateways, and custom internal data sources.
For The George Institute, we built an automated system that fetches and displays researcher publications directly from UNSW, keeping hundreds of researcher profiles current without any manual editor intervention. If your organisation has existing data that belongs on your website, we can surface it reliably.
Drupal Site Audits
We provide you with a comprehensive understanding of your site’s current state as well as any changes necessary to maximise its effectiveness while reducing potential technical risk.
Drupal Custom Theme Development
Our Front End Design team build cutting-edge user interfaces utilising the latest in browser technology. Matching your brand guidelines, they follow UX best practices and ensure your templates are optimised for speed.
Drupal support and ongoing development
We provide structured care plans for business-critical Drupal sites: security patching, module updates, performance monitoring, and proactive risk management.
Several of our Drupal client relationships have run for over a decade. The George Institute first came to us in 2015. NCIRS, Unisson Disability, and the American University of Rome are all ongoing. We also take on support for Drupal sites we didn’t build, subject to an initial audit to understand the codebase.
WE LOVE DRUPAL ❤️
Why organisations choose us
We’re a Drupal Association member agency and a Drupal web development company with a portfolio concentrated in health research, higher education, and data-focused organisations, the sectors where Drupal’s complexity capabilities matter most.
Our development standards are uncompromising. Our client relationships are long. And our remote team structure, with offices in Sydney, Danang, Perth and Rome, gives us the European client experience and timezone coverage that Australian-only agencies can’t offer.
If your organisation needs enterprise-grade Drupal and a team that understands your sector, that’s exactly what we’re built for.
Business success powered by Drupal
Questions worth answering before we talk
Yes. Our clients are spread across Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and beyond. Additionally, we have active client relationships in Europe. We work remotely by default and travel for discovery workshops and key project milestones where it adds genuine value.
Yes. Drupal 7 reached end-of-life in January 2025, which means no further security updates from the community. We’ve managed migrations involving tens of thousands of content items, complex data relationships, and multi-domain architectures. We assess your entire content structure and integration map before touching a line of code. A migration that skips that step creates problems downstream.
WCAG 2.2 AA compliance is built into our development standards, not retrofitted at the end. We build accessible component libraries, test with screen readers and automated tools throughout the build, and document compliance for clients with formal reporting requirements. Several of our clients, including health research institutes and universities, have Australian accessibility obligations, and we work within those frameworks from day one.
We build on both platforms, so we have no reason to favour either.
Drupal suits organisations with complex content architectures, multi-domain or multi-language requirements, strict security and compliance needs, or large editorial teams with sophisticated governance workflows. WordPress suits organisations that need a high-performance, flexible platform with a broader ecosystem and lower total cost of ownership for moderately complex sites.
If you’re genuinely unsure, that’s what a discovery engagement is for.
Every engagement starts with discovery. We don’t begin development until we understand your content architecture, your users, your integrations, and your governance requirements. For a complex Drupal build that means structured workshops, followed by UX design, staged development with regular client review, and a handover that includes editorial training and documentation. We’ll give you an honest scope and realistic timeline after an initial conversation.
Yes. Most of our Drupal clients move onto a care plan after launch covering security updates, module maintenance, performance monitoring, and ongoing development. We also support Drupal sites we didn’t build originally, subject to an initial audit. If you’re looking for a long-term technical partner rather than a one-project agency, that’s how we prefer to work
