Drupal

What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization. Dries Buytaert began the Drupal software as a message board in 1999. Within a year or so, more people became interested using and contributing to Drupal, so the project was made open source.

Drupal is a content management system (also refered to asCMS), meaning Drupal is used to manage content on informational sites, social media sites, member sites, intranets and web applications.

Drupal isn't a CMS, strictly speaking, but a platform into which various modules can be plugged and combined to provide CMS customized to your needs. There are modules for many purposes, for example storing different kinds of content, retrieving content based on criteria, and for displaying content in different ways and much more.

Future of Drupal

Using Drupal creates solutions that:

• offer shorter time to market for new or improved features on your site.

• empower your staff to customize and further improve your website without relying on a Drupal service provide

• offer sustainable maintenance when many small changes happen that affect functionality as well as design

• lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) as a result of Drupal being free software, offering shorter development time, less dependence on service providers and lower maintenance costs.