Drupal: Manage your website from a web browser

Drupal is a a dynamic web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content using a web browser

About Drupal

Drupal is the premier open-source content management system, and is administered entirely via a web-based interface. Drupal has a core layer which supports over 50 additional (free) modules that provide a wide assortment of features, such as e-commerce, workflow management, discussion forums, banner advertising, photo gallery, mailing list management, and taxonomy/classification.

Drupal is most-often used by organizations with 100+ pages and who need to distribute management of the website.

Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package. By enabling and configuring individual modules, an administrator can design a unique site -- one which can be used for a combination of knowledge management, web publishing and community interaction purposes.

Features include:

• 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
• Content syndication: Drupal exports your site's content in RDF/RSS format
• Searching: All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all times
• Discussion forums: Full discussion forum features are built into Drupal to create lively, dynamic community sites
• Multi-language: Drupal is designed to meet the requirements of an international audience and provides a full framework to create a multi-lingual website

In addition, the Drupal community (including Urban Insight), has many modules which provide additional functionality. A small selection of the most popular and useful modules include:

• E-Commerce: Enables the sale of goods or services, including inventory management and invoice generation
• Opt-In: Provides a mechanism for users to opt-in for multiple site features
• Event registration: Enables visitors to sign up for events, and provides event management features
• Workflow management: Enables the creation and assignment of workflows for any type of content type
• Survey management: Enables the creation of surveys to be completed by site visitors, with data exported to Excel
• Banner: Enables the display and tracking of advertising banners
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Enables you to track and evaluate who is subscribing to your newsletters, visiting the website and purchasing goods and services

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