Content Management System: Drupal

Drupal is the most complete Open Source content management system on the market today.  Integrating a modular architecture, the CMS allows for a great flexibility, which in turn allows for multiple types of project to be developed with Drupal: showcase website, Web portal, e-commerce site, intranet, extranet, etc.

In its 7th version, Drupal is an Open Source project with a large community of users and developers, with over half a million users spread out in over 200 countries. Over a 1000 developers, members of the Drupal community, are direct contributors to the core of Drupal.

Drupal is Open Source

• A source code freely available, distributed under the GNU General Public License.
• A community of over half a millions users and thousands of businesses worldwide insure that the product is continuously improved
• The thousand of developers are constantly adding new modules to the core, and making them available for anyone to use.

Evolving software

Because its group of developers is constantly upgrading Drupal, each new web tool or web trend is quickly integrated into the software, allowing it to remain up to date, no matter where the future of the Internet will lead us.

Core modules (from the official Wikipedia Drupal page)

Drupal includes modules which can be enabled by the administrator to extend the functionality of the core website. The core Drupal distribution provides a number of features, including:

• Access statistics and logging
• Advanced search
• Blogs, books, comments, forums, and polls
• Caching and feature throttling for improved performance
• Descriptive URLs
• Multi-level menu system
• Multi-site support
• Multi-user content creation and editing
• OpenID support
• RSS feed and feed aggregator
• Security and new release update notification
• User profiles
• Various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses, email)
• Workflow tools (triggers and actions)

Themes available

Drupal offers a variety of themes at very affordable prices, allowing a client to choose his design before the start of a project, at a fraction of the cost of custom designing.