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Drupal – An Overview
Monday, June 8th, 2009Drupal is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) used in web development. It is also called content management framework for it enables developers to extend and implement custom content management solutions. Drupal is written in PHP with MySQL as backend.
With Drupal, it is possible to develop and manage blogs, websites, portals, forums, e-commerce sites, social networking sites and many more. A few examples of popular websites developed using Drupal are www.labs.sonyericsson.com, www.jacksonville.com, www.nysenate.gov.
CMS like Joomla, Plone, WordPress are also existent in the market but the features available in the core Drupal and its extendibility makes Drupal stand in front of its competitors. SEO is better achieved through Drupal. It also provides a number of themes and modules to choose from. Integration of various technologies with Drupal extends its capability further. Apache Solr integration is a recent accomplishment. It is done through the Apache Solr Integration module.
Drupal administration has four main components. Content management enables to manage the website content. Site building controls look and feel of the site. Custom modules and themes help extend the ability of Drupal by not restricting to the available options in core module. Roles and permissions are created in the user management section for managing access rights to different users.
The Drupal presentation is available on Slideshare.
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