Drupal Content
Managment System and web blog
Drupal
is a CMS software that allows an individual or a community
of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great
variety of content on a website. In addition to its simplicity
and functionality.
Drupal
has a rapidly growing community and is becoming
more and more popular online. Even the default Drupal installation
has almost everything you need to quickly build a web page,
blog, or community. And there are hundreds of addons (modules)
that help webmasters further customize each Drupal site.Tens
of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal
to set up scores of different kinds of web sites, including
- Community
web portals and discussion sites
-
Corporate web sites/intranet portals
- Personal
web sites
- Afficionado
sites
- E-commerce
applications
- Resource
directories
Drupal includes features to enable
- Content
management systems
- Blogs
Collaborative
authoring environments - Forums
- Newsletters
- Picture
galleries
- File
uploads and download
- and
much more.
Drupal is
open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained
and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.
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Why
choose Drupal?
Here is a
summary of reasons why you should choose Drupal among other Content
Management Systems:
- Easy to
install
- Easy to
use - no programming knowledge needed!Read through this tutorial
to find out how to use Drupal.
- Lots of
features, such as custom search engine friendly URLs(SEF), categories,
search function...
- Lots of
modules to add even more functionality to your site.
- Flexibility
- you can easily turn your drupal installation into a forum,
faq, blog, wiki and many other types of web sites.
- Free to
use, open source. You can freely install drupal and you can
modify the source code in order to fit your needs, if you want.
- Lots of
users & community - easy to find solutions to your problems.
The large community guarantees that Drupal will have a bright
future.
By enabling
and configuring individual modules, an administrator can design
a unique site, one which can be used for a combination of knowledge
management, web publishing and community interaction purposes.
Here are some
typical drupal usages:
1. Content
management. Via a simple, browser-based interface, members can
publish stories, blogs, polls, images, forums, etc. Administrators
can easily customise the design of their Drupal installation.
The flexible
classification system allows hierarchical classifications, cross-indexing
of posts and multiple category sets for most content types.
Access to content is controlled through administrator-defined
user permission roles. There is a search option available also.
2. Weblog.
A single installation can be configured as an individual personal
weblog site or multiple individual weblogs. Drupal supports
the Blogger API, provides RSS feeds for each individual blog
and can be set to ping weblog directories when new content is
posted on the home page.
3. Discussion-based
community. A Drupal site can be successfully used as a discussion
forum. Comment boards, attached to most content types, make
it simple for members to discuss new posts. Administrators can
control whether content and comments are posted without approval,
with administrator approval or through community moderation.
With the built-in news aggregator, communities can subscribe
to and then discuss content from other sites.
4. Collaboration.
Used for managing the construction of Drupal, the project module
is suitable for supporting other open source software projects.
The wiki-like collaborative book module includes versioning
control, making it simple for a group to create, revise and
maintain documentation or any other type of text.
5. FAQ
Drupal CMS
Feature overview
General features
- Collaborative
Book
Our unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a project
or "book" that needs to be written and then authorize
other individuals to contribute content.
detailed information
- Friendly
URLs
Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs
that are both user and search engine friendly.
Modules
The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide
functionality like taxonomy display, jabber authentication,
private messages, bookmarks, etc.
- Online
help
Like many Open Source projects, we can't say that our online
help is perfect but have built a robust online help system and
written the core help text.
- Open source
The source code of Drupal is freely available under the terms
of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Unlike proprietary
blogging or content management systems, Drupal's feature set
is fully available to extend or customize as needed.
- Personalization
A robust personalization environment is at the core of Drupal.
Both the content and the presentation can be individualized
based on user-defined preferences.
- Role based
permission system
Drupal administrators don't have to tediously setup permissions
for each user. Instead, they assign permissions to roles and
then group like users into a role group.
- Searching
All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all
times.
User management
- User
authentication - Users can register and authenticate locally
or using an external authentication source like Jabber, Blogger,
LiveJournal or another Drupal website. For use on an intranet,
Drupal can integrate with an LDAP server.
Content management
- Polls
Drupal comes with a poll module which enables admins and/or
users to create polls and show them on various pages.
- Templating
Drupal's theme system separates content from presentation allowing
you to control the look and feel of your Drupal site. Templates
are created from standard HTML and PHP coding meaning that you
don't have to learn a proprietary templating language
- Threaded
comments
Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment model for enabling
discussion on published content. Comments are hierarchical as
in a newsgroup or forum.
- Version
control
Drupal's version control system tracks the details of content
updates including who changed it, what was changed, the date
and time of changes made to your content and more. Version control
features provide an option to keep a comment log and enables
you to roll-back content to an earlier version.
Blogging
-
Blogger API support
The Blogger API allows your Drupal site to be updated by many
different tools. This includes non-web browser based tools that
provide a richer editing environment.
- Content
syndication
Drupal exports your site's content in RDF/RSS format for others
to gather. This lets anyone with a "News Aggregator"
such as NetNewsWire or Radio UserLand browse your Drupal site
from the comfort of their desktop.
- News
aggregator
Drupal has a powerful built-in News Aggregator for reading and
blogging news from other sites. The News Aggregator caches articles
to your MySQL database and its caching time is user configurable.
-
Permalinks
All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or "perma
link" associated with it so people can link to it freely
without fear of broken links.
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