What is Drupal?

Posted on September 14, 2009. Filed under: drupal, drupal content, drupal module, drupal modules, drupal php, drupal theme, drupal themes, drupal user, joomla |

Drupal is an open-source content management system (CMS). Basically its an environment that allows you to develop powerful websites quickly and with relative ease.

Some samples of websites developed with drupal:

Why use drupal?

It’s free
It manages your website content
- Easily store and edit all your content and data
- Display your website pages
- Easily and instantly edit the appearance of your website
  - Using Themes (templates)
  - Color profiles
  - Visit the Drupal Theme Tester at themes.zaf.me to see drupal themes live in action.
  - Some theme examples:
- Lets you easily add features to your website, such as
  - Image galleries
  - Blogs
  - Forums
  - Calendars
  - Video Streaming
  - Podcasts
Drupal has a large online community, supporting each other and developing drupal add-on modules to provide extra functionality to drupal.
Get started now with drupal at drupal.org