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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
No. ShopForge is a cloud operations platform. Infrastructure hosting functions as a capability managed quietly underneath our orchestration layer, giving you unified control over your environments without proprietary lock-in.
You connect ShopForge directly to your own cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, OVH, or DigitalOcean). ShopForge automates the environment setup and deployment workflows, while you retain total data sovereignty and pay your cloud provider directly for raw infrastructure.
Yes. ShopForge is custom-built to help Shopware agencies standardize operations across their entire portfolio, create isolated client preview environments, and eliminate manual DevOps overhead.
The platform coordinates atomic blue/green deployments. You push code via Git, changes are fully compiled in an isolated build layer, and traffic is switched instantly with built-in rollback protection if anomalies are detected.
Yes. Agencies and freelancers can use ShopForge to quickly spin up client demo and staging environments. Each project has its own isolated workspace, complete with code access and cloud-ready deployment options.
No local setup is required. Your Shopware dev site runs entirely in the cloud, with a full code editor and terminal built in. All you need is a browser to start building or testing right away.
The go-live feature that lets you deploy to your own cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) is currently in Beta. We’re inviting early testers — just contact us through the site if you’d like to try it out.
Yes — you can share your demo store’s public link to showcase your work, or invite teammates and clients to collaborate in the same environment. It’s perfect for demos, reviews, or team development.
Every ShopForge environment includes a visible timer. If you’re not logged in and the timer runs out, the site is deleted automatically. If you are logged in, you can extend the timer — and when it expires, the site is simply paused (not deleted). You can log back in anytime, go to “My Apps,” and unpause it. Paused sites are kept for up to 30 days before being permanently deleted.
Yes — you can download your entire site anytime. Just open your project in the dashboard, go to the Backups section, create a manual backup, and download it. It’s a quick way to keep a local copy or move your site elsewhere.
Yes — developers and agencies can contribute Shopware templates or demos to the ShopForge library. It’s a great way to showcase your work and help others get started — sites launch in under 5 seconds with no setup required.