Released in January 2001, Drupal is an open source content management system distributed under the GNU General Public License, and is a content management framework. Drupal development is used worldwide in the development of content management websites, blog sites, government websites, corporate websites, social networking websites, community websites and lot more.
Moreover, Drupal CMS supports numerous software frameworks such as PHP, JAVA/ AJAX, Flash/ Flex, etc. along with web server including Apache, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Microsoft SQL server. Not only that, Drupal development is cross platform compatible, as a result, a developer can perform Drupal development on any operating system such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and also Linux.
In fact, there are several advantages of Drupal development available to the Drupal developers. These advantages could be classified as:
• Drupal is an open source technology, as it proves to be cost-effective
• Availability of numerous add-ons, themes and templates
• Easy to install and use
• No need to buy licenses
• Used by thousands of users worldwide
• Availability of Drupal community
• Constantly updated by thousands of users
• Availability of free updates
• Drupal development is able to develop solutions for both dynamic websites and CMS
• Supports of various software frameworks
• Capable of building multilingual websites
• And much more...
However, as a main functionality of Drupal Content Management System (CMS) is integrated with several features which had made developers and industries around the world to seek Drupal development for their web development needs. These features of Drupal CMS are:
Build - Drupal CMS allows building internal and external-facing websites in almost no time without the need of custom programming. As a result, developer doesn't need to start again from the beginning for building a new website. Drupal has a tool for multi-site configuration and Drupal distribution allowing presetting the configuration of the site functionalities and features.
Create - Supports numerous types of content including text, video, blogs, podcasts and polls with easy to manage functionality, along with user management, menu handling and real-time statistics.
Administer - Drupal CMS supports creating new user accounts and user permission. Administrator can assign different roles to different developers as per the priority and skills.
Design and Display - Drupal CMS supports thousands of Drupal themes and templates, and also allows the developer to create their own unique design for themes and templates.
Organize and Find - Drupal CMS allows organizing with the facility of automatically creating URLs, custom lists and by relating content with other content on the site.
Extend - Drupal has more than 6000 modules available which helps to increase the potentiality of the web development process.
Collaborate - Drupal can help to develop social networking and blog sites where the stakeholder can have the control on the users and the type of the content that they may publish, along with the interactions towards the content.
Connect - Drupal CMS allows website to connect with other websites using feeds and search engine connection capabilities. Even social networking is supported via Drupal.
With so many features and advantages, no doubt Drupal development certainly proves to be an excellent content management system delivering top-notch solutions in web development, worldwide.
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