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What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organise a wide variety of content on their website. Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.

Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power all kind of different web sites, including:

• The White House (USA)
• United Kingdom Government
• The Economist
• MTV - Music Television
• Ubuntu
• WFP - United Nations World Food Program
• Grammy.com
• PGA - Professional Golfers' Association of America
• Garmin Denmark
• McDonalds Australia
• Yahoo StyleGuide
• Yahoo Research

Built using modern techniques, and under constant improvement by the rabid developer community, Drupal has a number of powerful advantages over other open-source, commercial, and custom content management systems:

• The ability to access content in a number of different ways.
• An established security team that releases updates whenever a vulnerability is discovered.
• Zero licensing costs.
• Built-in caching for high-visibility sites.
• Role-based permission system.
• Advanced taxonomy system.

Drupal is not a desktop application. It is commonly run on a Linux-based server using the PHP scripting language and the MySql database, all of which are also open-source projects. For development and evaluation purposes, Drupal is often run on standard Windows, Macintosh, and Linux based personal computers commonly using an all-in-one local server environment such as WAMP, MAMP or XAMPP.

A common question people who are inquiring about Drupal often ask is, "how does it compare to Dreamweaver (or any other web design tool)?" The short answer is that Drupal is not meant to be a design tool - Drupal is designed to manage and deliver content. While Dreamweaver is sometimes used to manage small, static web sites, Drupal is meant to manage larger web sites often with a range of interactive features. Many people use Dreamweaver to design the site then use Drupal to manage the site.

Drupal is the perfect choice for large Enterprise websites with high traffic. Drupal has received extensive accolades for its usefulness and relatively rapid build time. It is also known for its very dynamic nature:

• websites designed on the Drupal framework can be changed rapidly by modifying modules.

Drupal can easily be used to manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalogue, processing credit card payments or taking online reservations.

The difference between Drupal and commercial CMS solutions?

Drupal is a highly cost effective CMS solution as it allows us to develop complex websites in much less time it would take using commercial CMS technologies. With literally thousands of community-contributed modules extending the flexibility of Drupal, the chances are that Drupal already supports almost all of the features you could possibly imagine.

Is a Drupal CMS website search engine friendly?

Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user friendly and search engine friendly.

Is a CMS web site difficult to maintain?

Once your Drupal website is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organisation effective. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Drupal site.

Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site.