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Review - Drupal CMS
from:Drupal is a free open source content management system application package that helps users in creating, modifying, updating and publishing the web content on the online resources. Drupal is used widely by users for creation of following kind of online resources.
Community web portals
Discussion sites
Corporate web sites
Intranet applications
Personal web sites or blogs
Aficionado sites
E-commerce applications
Resource directories
Social Networking sites
The strength and popularity of drupal CMS lies in the following features it provides to the users
Free download: The application package is an open source and can easily be downloaded from the site without any registration fee. It comes with a free GPL (GNU general public license).
Easy install: Once drupal is downloaded, it can easily be installed by a simple click that installs and configures it at the correct system path.
Freely available modules and plug-ins: The standard exe of drupal web install comes with lot of free modules and plug-ins that can be used to create more visually soothing templates and designs that make drupal a perfect CMS for applications like blogs, podcasts, news-letters, e-zines and other content management system packages.
Online resources: Drupal provides a rich online documentation that can be used to troubleshoot any kind of problem. Owing to the popularity of this package lot of help is available on internet in forums and e-books.
The Drupal CMS is open source and is easily updated and developed by an active online community of developers and users.
The standard drupal CMS comes with the basic features that facilitates creation of users accounts, provides administration interfaces, inserts RSS feed plug-ins .The basic install also provides customizable lay-outs, an online forum, a blogging panel and a tool that creates a standard website.
If the user is interested in creating a website that is SEO optimized he has all the more reasons to vouch for drupal as it provides sophisticated tools that can be used to produce scalable websites that have high visibility on any search engine. It scores higher on this term as compared to Joomla, Wordpress or Plone.
Drupal is widely used to create advanced and complicated sites and some of the reasons for why is it so are enumerated below:
1. Advanced URL Control
2. Custom content types and views.
3. Revision control
4. Taxonomy
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