Few interesting facts about Drupal

Drupal is a popular open source content management system that is being used by a plethora of webmasters for an efficient website control. It is a free to download software with numerous useful functions that make it a powerful database driven system. Features and functionalities that make Drupal so popular and attractive are:

• Drupal is an open source application, so, it is highly flexible and open to customization without extensive code rewriting.
•  Drupal is open to all sorts of customization like appearance, theme, content presentation, color combination, etc. to meet all the user preferences
•  Adding required features is also very easy in Drupal. The basic Drupal system has many modules, building blocks, theme templates, etc. over which customization could be easily conducted for the desired look and feel of your site
•  Managing the roles and authority is also very convenient in Drupal. User groups with desired permission and role could be set so that no any individual without required permission views, edit, upload or manipulate the website content.
• ‘Built-in Search’ features in Drupal application that make it easy for any user to search and locate the content uploaded on the site CMS
• Promoting articles are also very convenient using Drupal CMS. Initializing discussion and comments on published content, voting on items and other such publicity tricks could be easily implemented.
• Tracking of content details like creation, upload, update, edit and any other change is very systematic. Tracing the individual responsible for any particular content related issue is also possible.
• Drupalapplication supports RSS content syndication, so anyone with an RSS reader can visit your site feed
•  Drupal’s permalink feature is very useful in linking other sites from your site. This feature creates a permanent link with each content uploaded to the CMS
•  Drupal is a multi-platform compatible application. It can run on Apache, Microsoft IIS, Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac, and others
•   It is also multi-language platform that can attract international audience and allows by supporting multi-lingual web site
• Drupal has tools for analysis and tracking of information related to your websites. Option of taking printout of vital statistics is also embedded
• It is administered by an assigned administrator who can login and manage the site from any place where internet is available

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