Drupal is open source software that is widely used these days for developing Content Management System (CMS) applications for a wide range of purposes. Whether it is creating personal blogs, developing corporate CMS websites, managing social networking sites or streamlining enterprise resources, Drupal finds its application everywhere.
Drupal is an outstanding platform that gives you opportunity to manage a wide of content-text, video, blog, podcasts on your website. As it is available free of cost under General Public License, it has become more popular. Using Drupal software package one can build a website of his choice and needs and that too with much flexibility. It is very easy to update the website made in Drupal and when need arises one can create new features in the website to meet the ever-changing needs.
Drupal has more than 6000 available modules that meet diverse needs of users. There is no need to recreate features as one can address his requirements with these available add-on modules. With Drupal’s presentation layer, the designers get opportunity to create highly interactive website that appeals to its targeted audience and enhance web traffic. One can create his own theme other than the existing Drupal themes and can apply Drupal open source software on that theme to build website of his choice.
Social networking sites and sites involving forum discussions can be very easily and effectively developed using Drupal. One can create applications in the website with Drupal modules that help users and participators of discussion to share their opinions very easily. Further, the site owner has full control on users as to which part of the content will be available for users to view and to put opinion. Hence, administrator allows users to view and create content by assigning them different roles.
Web designers and developers are using Drupal software to help their clients in managing their CMS needs by developing websites in Drupal. Further, Drupal websites are secure enough to work with. To get started with Drupal project one has to download free files from Drupal Core. The technical requirements to work with Drupal are PHP programming language and MySQL database server. The most interesting fact is that though Drupal provides advanced and sophisticated programming interface for web developers, it needs no special programming skills to develop basic websites in Drupal. Web design companies these days use this open source software to build websites as it is easy to work with and has much scope to modify it in future once the website is developed.