Introduction to Drupal Content Management System (CMS)
Drupal is one of the best Content Management Systems (CMS). It is written in PHP
and requires a MySQL database. Drupal is
a completely free, open source Content Management System (CMS) that many
intelligent companies are using today to provide their needs. Effective Web
design is driven by the need to balance flexibility and simplicity. If a system
is too simple, it can only be used for a single purpose - but if it is too
flexible, it may be too difficult for new users to learn.
Drupal strives to reconcile these conflicting goals by providing its users with
the tools they need to make their own content management solution, while still
providing some prebuilt components to help them get started. Thus, it can be
described both as a content management system (CMS) and a content management
framework (CMF) - one system which strives to have the strengths of both,
without their deficiencies.
Drupal treats most content types as variations on the same concept: Static
pages, blog posts, and news items are all stored in the same way, and the site's
navigation structure is designed separately by editing menus, views, and blocks
(side content which often have links to different site sections).
Why Use Drupal?
There are lots of benefits of Drupal which makes it more powerful. Here is list
of Drupal benefits:
1.
Easy to Install
2.
Easy to manage
3.
Easy to use
4.
Simplicity
5.
Flexibility
6.
Search Engine Friendly
7.
Module to extend web site functionality
8.
Open Source Software
So, above feature makes Drupal more reliable and compelled us to use it.
By enabling and configuring individual modules, an administrator can design a
unique site which can be used for knowledge management, web publishing,
community interaction purposes, etc. Some typical usages of Drupal Content
Management System (CMS) are:
1.
Content
Management System (CMS): Drupal is content management system software
through which we can easily manage our website content such as Article, Blogs,
forums, module, plugin, menus etc. It provides functionality to administrator
for easily manage of website user interface.
2.
The Drupal
classification system allows hierarchical ordering, cross-indexing of posts
and multiple categories sets for most content types. Access to content is
controlled through administrator-defined user roles. A search option is also
available.
3.
Discussion-based community - A Drupal web site can be successfully used as a
discussion forum. Comment boards, attached to most content types, make it simple
for members to discuss new posts. Administrators can control whether content and
comments are posted without approval, with administrator approval or through
community moderation.
4.
Collaboration - Used for managing the construction of Drupal, the project
module is suitable for supporting other open source software projects. The
wiki-like collaborative book module includes versions control, making it simple
for a group to create, revise and maintain documentation or any other type of
text.
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