Reasons to use Drupal

 

Drupal originated as a bulletin board system developed by Dries Buytaert in the Netherlands and became an Open Source project in 2001. Originally established as Drop.org Website, Buytaert wished it to call the site "dorp" ("village" in Dutch), he made a typo when checking the domain name, and decided to call as Drupal (Drupal is a transliteration of the Dutch " druppel " which means droplet). Drupal is free, open-source software that can be used for creating and managing websites.

Following are the types of sites that can be created using Drupal

• Blogs
• Forum
• Portals
• Ecommerce Sites
• Social networking

Drupal is been written in PHP and distributed under a GNU General Public License. Drupal helps to build various kinds of Web projects with its template resource that promotes user-friendly results.

Benefits of Drupal

Drupal has many benefits

• A Framework that can be extended depending on programming skills.
• Compatibility with wide databases i.e. MySql, Postgre, SQLite, MariaDB, Oracle.
• Support different web servers for e.g. Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd.
• One installation suffices for many subdomain sites.
• It has an inbuilt module supporting Multi-languages.
• Unlimited User roles, Admin, authentic and Custom roles for specific modules.
• Supports unlimited Tagging.
• Supports unlimited content Type as for e.g. Blog, Article, Page, Forum, etc.
• It has Built-in Forum Engine which helps to build forums quickly.
• Easily import data from other CMS i.e. Joomla to Drupal, WP to Drupal, Native HTML to Drupal, Blogspot to Drupal, Feed to Drupal, XML to Drupal, Twitter to Drupal, and Native database to Drupal.
• Lots of inbuilt modules and free add-ons are available which can be easily installed using the installer.

Is Drupal a CMS

Is Drupal a CMS? The disconnect is that Drupal is not a Content Management System (CMS). It is a Content Management Framework (CMF), from which you can build a Content Management System tailored specifically for fulfilling our needs.

Reasons to use Drupal

Drupal wins in many areas from other packages. Following are the few reasons below:

• Drupal is much flexible to use compared to other packages. Well-defined architecture, inbuilt modules, addons make life easier to users. Drupal can be extended to infinite limits depending on the programming skills of the developer.
• Drupal is easy to use. It is capable of creating more advanced sites. It is compatible with wide databases as well as supports different webservers.
• Security is the biggest concern among the entire open source community. Drupal due to its well-defined architecture makes it more secured compared to other Packages.
• Drupal is a freely available open-source Framework. An effort to incorporate common frameworks like Symfony has made the life of PHP developers easy.

Overall, Drupal is powerful and supple. If correctly and efficiently used can help to create unique and effective solutions to meet needs.