Use Drupal To Build Websites

By Tim Andersson

Drupal, a free open source software, was created in 2000 by Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder, two students at the University of Antwerp. Its name is derived from the English pronunciation of the word "druppel," which in Dutch means "drop." Drupal is coded in PHP.

It is a highly sophisticated Content Management System (CMS). Drupal can be used to create a variety of Internet applications such as blogs, websites and social networking sites. As a matter of fact, there are essentially no limits on what you can use Drupal for. And most important, Drupal is free.

There is no need to understand computer programming languages when you use Drupal. All this software requires is some basic technical knowledge like how to do word processing and how to browse. You don't need anything like advanced programming or HTML skill to use this award-winning CMS. Drupal includes an intuitive, easy-to-use web installer that makes the installation of the software very simple. Once the software is installed, you choose the design and content types for your website.

Drupal is a content management system that offers multiple benefits. It's SEO-friendly, and it provides you with better control over the structure of your website's URLs. It can customize the content of your website and help your site obtain better search engine rankings. Drupal also offers a Content Construction Kit that helps you to easily develop various types of website content.

Drupal has a wonderful online community for developers. The community members are ready to help and constantly work toward improving the technology. There is a lot of information on the Internet about Drupal and how to use it to do various things.

Learning how to use Drupal is not difficult, but you should learn Drupal the correct way. The best way is to get some private tuition, but these private lessons can be much too expensive for most people. You could also learn Drupal by playing around with it, so that you pick it up along the way. But if you're serious about using this CMS, looking through some of the Drupal Tutorials is probably your best solution. There are many tutorials on the Internet, but the most popular are assembled together on the Drupal Tutorials website.

Drupal can be used for more than creating websites. Because of the great flexibility of its configuration, Drupal can also be used for constructing e-commerce systems and powerful branding. You might run into certain problems while you're learning but your questions can be easily answered because of the strong Drupal CMS community support.

Just take a glance at the online market. You'll find that Drupal was used to construct many corporate and social websites, including TheOnion, PopSugar, MTV, BBC, NASA and others. Even Barack Obama's website at whitehouse.cov is built on Drupal.

Whether you want to build a small website or a website that's very large, Drupal is a powerful solution. It has an extensive library of tutorials and jobs working with Drupal are some of the most wanted on the market today. So don't hesitate any longer. Use Drupal and walk along with its progress. - 32523

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