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Review - Drupal CMS
from: Deb St. George - WonderRanchPublishing.netDrupal is a free open source content management system application package that helps users in creating, modifying, updating and publishing the web content on the online resources. Drupal is used widely by users for creation of following kind of online resources.
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
The strength and popularity of drupal CMS lies in the following features it provides to the users
Free download: The application package is an open source and can easily be downloaded from the site without any registration fee. It comes with a free GPL (GNU general public license).
Easy install: Once drupal is downloaded, it can easily be installed by a simple click that installs and configures it at the correct system path.
Freely available modules and plug-ins: The standard exe of drupal web install comes with lot of free modules and plug-ins that can be used to create more visually soothing templates and designs that make drupal a perfect CMS for applications like blogs, podcasts, news-letters, e-zines and other content management system packages.
Online resources: Drupal provides a rich online documentation that can be used to troubleshoot any kind of problem. Owing to the popularity of this package lot of help is available on internet in forums and e-books.
The Drupal CMS is open source and is easily updated and developed by an active online community of developers and users.
The standard drupal CMS comes with the basic features that facilitates creation of users accounts, provides administration interfaces, inserts RSS feed plug-ins .The basic install also provides customizable lay-outs, an online forum, a blogging panel and a tool that creates a standard website.
If the user is interested in creating a website that is SEO optimized he has all the more reasons to vouch for drupal as it provides sophisticated tools that can be used to produce scalable websites that have high visibility on any search engine. It scores higher on this term as compared to Joomla, Wordpress or Plone.
Drupal is widely used to create advanced and complicated sites and some of the reasons for why is it so are enumerated below:
1. Advanced URL Control
2. Custom content types and views.
3. Revision control
4. TaxonomyÂ
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CM should go for fresh polls: HDK - Times of India
CM should go for fresh polls: HDK Times of India He said, "By claiming that he has taken control of the situation and made officials do all the work indicates that our CM has lost control over bureaucracy. People here are wise enough to understand how the chief minister is running the state. |
CM honours old boys of NIT - Times of India
CM honours old boys of NIT Times of India Honouring the 16 pass-out students of 1962, the CM said that they passed out half a century ago and engaged themselves in various activities. Among the 36 old boys of 1986 was rural works department minister Bhim Singh. He also distributed gold medals ... |
Weavers plan a special sari for CM's b'day - Times of India
Weavers plan a special sari for CM's b'day Times of India "The first set of clothes made of beech fibre would be presented to CM," said 42-year-old Padma. Dyed in green (CM is often seen in this colour of clothing), the sari is 5.5 metres long with embroidery and other decorative done in silk. |
CM Munda calls for peaceful co-existence of all communities - Times of India
CM Munda calls for peaceful co-existence of all communities Times of India "For the first time in the state, our government paid support price to paddy farmers which resulted in procurement of 1 lakh tonnes of paddy in the state," said the CM. Earlier, state BJP president Dineshanand Goswami also criticized the Congress-led ... |
Interest free crop loan up to Rs one lakh: CM - Times of India
Interest free crop loan up to Rs one lakh: CM Times of India Legislator Vijay Khadse placed before the CM the needs of his constituency which includes the setting up of a police station at Dhanki, starting a 132 KW power substation, construction of roads in the villages at the vicinity of the Painganga wildlife ... |
CMS Dance wins event - Cleveland Daily Banner
CMS Dance wins event Cleveland Daily Banner THE CMS DANCE TEAM RAIDERETTEES recently competed at the heritage Five Star Dance Invitational. From front left are Sarah Emily Sentell, Emma Brusky, Courtney Hamilton, Jessica Johnson, Anna Craig and Cassie Jones. Second row, from left, ... |
Fest is a perfect platform to promote tourism in district: CM - Times of India
Fest is a perfect platform to promote tourism in district: CM Times of India UDUPI: Chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Sunday batted strongly for Spring Zouk 2012, the three-day gala celebration of music, culture and arts on St Mary's Island in the temple town. This notwithstanding criticisms from certain quarters that the ... |