Drupal is an open source content management platform, written in the programming language PHP. Originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board, Drupal became an open source project in 2001.

Drupal was also designed to allow new features and custom behavior to be added by third parties. For this reason, Drupal is sometimes described as a "Content Management Framework". Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic web site installation and administration. You can power many different types of websites with it without knowing any coding languages.

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Key reasons to choose Drupal as CMS platform:

• Fast! – Out of the box, Drupal is small in space and memory requirements, which this is the key to its speed. When it comes to web development, less is always more.

• Portable! – Drupal is built with standard technologies so it can be implemented on just about any server, and accessible from anywhere.

• Scalable! – Drupal supports the owner and website’s users, now and as the business grows.

• Modular! – Drupal is flexible. Limitless options and add-on functionality allow it to change seamlessly with the business.

• It's Popular (with the developers)! – Drupal is supported by a huge community of dedicated programmers who are constantly building new functionality.

General features

• Collaborative Book – The unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a "book" and then authorize other individuals to contribute content.
   
• Friendly URLs – Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user and search engine friendly.
   
• Modules – The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality that extend Drupal core.
   
• Online help – Like many Open Source projects Drupal provides online help system built into the core help text.
   
• Open source – The source code of Drupal is freely available under the terms of the GNU General
   
• Public License 2 (GPL). Unlike proprietary blogging or content management systems, Drupal's feature set is fully available to extend or customize as needed.
   
• Personalization – A robust personalization environment is at the core of Drupal. Both the content and the presentation can be individualized based on user-defined preferences.
   
• Role based permission system – Drupal administrators don't have to tediously setup permissions for each user. Instead, they assign permissions to roles and then group like users into a role group.
   
• Searching – All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all times if you take advantage of the built in search module.

Content management

• Polls – Drupal comes with a poll module which enables admins and/or users to create polls and show them on various pages.

• Templating – Drupal's theme system separates content from presentation allowing you to control the look and feel of your

• Drupal site. Templates are created from standard HTML and PHP coding meaning that you don't have to learn a proprietary templating language.
   
• Threaded comments – Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment model for enabling discussion on published content. Comments are hierarchical as in a newsgroup or forum

Platform

• Apache or IIS, Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support – Drupal was designed from the start to be multi-platform. Not only can you use it with either Apache or Microsoft IIS but we also have Drupal running on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X platforms

• Database independence Drupal is built on top of a database abstraction layer that enables to use Drupal with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Other SQL databases can be supported by writing a supporting database backend containing fourteen functions and creating a matching SQL database scheme.

• Multi-language – Drupal is designed to meet the requirements of an international audience and provides a full framework to create a multi-lingual website, blog, content management system or community application. All text can be translated using a graphical user interface, by importing existing translations, or by integrating with other translation tools such as the GNU gettext administration and analysis
   
• Analysis, tracking and statistics – Drupal can print browser-based reports with information about referrals, content popularity and how visitors navigate your site.
   
• Logging and reporting – All important activities and system events are captured in an event log to be reviewed by an administrator at a later time.
   
• Web based administration – Drupal can be administered entirely using a web browser, making it possible to access it from around the world and requires no additional software to be installed on your computer.