Open source programs / applications are gift for webmaster community, you can use them free of cost for developing your applications you also have excellent community support for all such open source programs. One of such popular open source content management platform is Drupal. Its widely used by webmasters for developing websites, you can use Drupal to create and organize content of your website, customize your the presentation, and can also automate administrative tasks. Due to excellent functionality Drupal is also describe as “ Content Management Framework” Most important feature of Drupal is that its platform independent you can use it on any OS supporting Apache or IIS Web server and PHP. Drupal run on Linux very smoothly as it can based on Windows, FreeBSD, Soloris 10 etc… Drupal uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as database support for storing content and all settings. Currently, the most popular and powerful platform to run Drupal is Linux and MySQL. Drupal can be used for developing discussion board, blogs, or even personal web sites, you can also use it for creating corporate site, E-commerce applications, web portals etc…..
Using Drupal you can easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Drupal have a range of very helpful features such as : can use as content management system, can easily create blogs, collaborative authoring environments, building web forums, can have newsletters, picture galleries, can easily upload and download files. You have Drupal Core as official release of Drupal which contains almost all basic features common to most CMSs. You have ability to register and maintain individual user accounts, administration menus, can handle RSS-feeds, customize layouts, you can also set privileges, can setup a blogging system, internet forum or even a corporate website. You have facility using which you can allow all registered or anonymous users to add content to your site. Drupal allows your content to be categorized or “tagged” with keywords thus all content can be access faster.
Drupal core also includes a hierarchical taxonomy system which allows content to be categorized or “tagged” with keywords for easier access.
You need to check with your webhost if they support Drupal on their servers, most host will support Drupal but you shold crosscheck for it.
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This post was written by admin on October 1, 2008
