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What is Drupal?
Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Drupal is free to download and use. If you like what Drupal promises for you, please work with us to expand and refine Drupal to suit your specific needs.
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power many of different types of web sites.
Examples of The Types of Sites Drupal Can Run:
- 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
In Depth Look at Drupal Features:
- Drupal Offers Friendly URLs
- Drupal Offers Modules
- Drupal is Open Source
- Drupal Allows Personalization
- Templating - Drupal's theme system separates content from presentation allowing you to control the look and feel of your Drupal site.
- Threaded comments - Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment model for enabling discussion on published content. Comments are hierarchical as in a newsgroup or forum.
- Content Updates Control
- Blogger API support - The Blogger API allows your Drupal site to be updated by many different tools. This includes non-web browser based tools that provide a richer editing environment.
- Content syndication - Drupal exports your site's content in RDF/RSS format for others to gather. This lets anyone with a News Aggregator browse your Drupal sites feeds.
- News aggregator - Drupal has a powerful built-in News Aggregator for reading and blogging news from other sites. The News Aggregator caches articles to your MySQL database and its caching time is user configurable.
- Permalinks - All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or "perma link" associated with it so people can link to it freely without fear of broken links.
- Database independence - Drupal is built on top of a database abstraction layer that enables you to use Drupal with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Multi-Language Support
Drupal Web Hosting
Many hosts will support Drupal without much hassle since it is based on PHP and MySQL content handling.
Take a look at some of our featured web hosts for the right solution for you. You may want to see our blogging category section as well.
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