Drupal Content Management System

Drupal is an open source content management system (cms) similar to Joomla (and Wordpress if you use it as a CMS). Is is has an extensive array of features (called modules) that you can add on to the basic setup to create any sort of website.

Drupal is ideal for creating a simple single user blog, multi-user blogs, membership sites or large corporate websites and community driven websites: video sharing, news, photo galleries etc.

Because of it's highly customizable features, Drupal puts the power of site creation into the hands of regular ordinary users and this can be very intimidating to the new user. With a little time and effort put into learning how to setup, configure, and use Drupal to its to full advantage, it is very possible to create a Youtube type website or a Digg clone. Drupal can be the solution to your website or content management requirements, whatever they may be.

Here are ten features that make Drupal so attractive:

#1 Drupal can be fully customized and extended to meet almost any requirement because the code is open source.

#2 Drupal modules allow the addition of almost any feature imaginable to the basic Drupal system.

#3 Drupal uses themes to handle the display of your website design, you can totally customize the appearance and content presentation of your site via your own custom theme.

#4 Drupal allows setting up users and groups and permissions so you can manage access permissions for a website: who can or cannot, view, create and manipulate content on the site.

#5 Drupal allows you track your entire work flow process: who created the content, the date and time it was created or changed, revert to an earlier version of the content, exactly what changes were made, publish or un-publish content on specific dates etc.

#6 Drupal allows you to control comments, trackbacks, pingbacks etc. on your website content. It also allows you to promote or feature popular content on your website.

#7 Drupal has a built in search feature so you can easily locate content on your website.

#8 Drupal comes with support for RSS content syndication built in.

#9 Drupal's news aggregator publishes news from other websites on your website.

#10 Drupal is administered via the web, so you can use any browser to login and administer your site from anywhere that internet access is available.

The above list is just a small sample of what Drupal has to offer. You can use Drupal to create a wide variety of websites:

Blogging

Content Management

Community Driven Sites

Video Sharing

Art/Photo Galleries

Newspapers

Libraries

E-Commerce And Small Business Sites

Membership Sites

And more ...