What is Drupal?

  • Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites ... Read more at drupal.org.
  • Drupal is a content management framework, content management system and blogging engine which was originally written by Dries Buytaert ... Read more at Wikipedia.
  • Drupal is an example of what's known as a Content Management System (CMS). Content Management Systems are designed to help organise collections of information, such as websites. The Drupal system runs on the web server that hosts your site, and is accessed by a normal web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. ... Read more at the website of Coffs Ex-Services Computer Club

Drupal is an Open-Source Content Management System

Drupal is an Open-Source Content Management System capable of forming the backbone of corporate intranets, corporate blogging systems, personal blogging systems and many other varieties of web presence.

Anywhere that people work together in an organisation to produce results in the form of documents or images Drupal is ideal.

It is at once a Content Management System, and a collaborative working environment and a web publishing channel.

The contributions of any number of people are coordinated by the software to arrive on the website in an organised and accessible fashion.

An organisation that has a Drupal site can easily present an interesting, alive, busy, productive, responsive and responsible image to the public.

Drupal takes over where websites and blogs reached their natural boundaries. It is a star on the horizon of the web building world.

Why Drupal?

A whole range of website developments that traditionally have been carried out by software like Microsoft Frontpage and Macromedia Dreamweaver can now be carried out quicker and easier utilising Drupal.