What is Drupal?
Drupal is a content management system (CMS) that you can use to create dynamic websites. Instead of using individual hand-crafted files for each web page, Drupal provieds an infterface to add,edit and control your content with out the fuss of creating hand-crafted pages, you do not need to know about the geeky side of websites to alter your content. A CMS puts you in control and allows for much better guidance of content, allowing you to focus on your business or organisation that would not be possible otherwise.
This allows you to create incredibly feature-rich websites, with features like:
- image galleries
- discussion forums
- multimedia
- document management
- advanced searching
- social networking
- content tagging and organisation
- e-commerce shopping carts
- comments
- user profiles
- blogs
Why Use Drupal?
Drupal isn’t the only CMS out there – far from it! There are countless others, ranging from simple blog applications to enterprise level solutions.
Drupal's dirty little secret is that its a “developer’s Content Management System”. Usability for average users is a key goal of Drupal. Hordes of coders means more code, more support, and higher quality. These are people who are passionate about Drupal and want it to succeed and this makes your Drupal website stronger every day.
