What is it?
A content management system (cms) and a community management system or a blog if you would rater like that. Drupal is what you define it to be, it allows you to pick and choose what you want to do on your site! Which at first can be very confusing, but when you learn how it work it is one of, if not the, strongest site building system. It is almost only your own imagination that sets the limit to what you want out of your site, when using drupal.
What can I use it for?
Basically anything that you can imaging, want to start a community about white wooden fences or some other really weird subject. Just define what the users should be allowed to do, what kinda of content the site will be working with and you are done. Haven’t found something that it can’t really do, as the entire frame of the system is build to be flexible and extended. There is a extremely long list of features that can be done with drupal, just to mention a few:
- Content Management Systems
- Blogs
- Collaborative authoring environments
- Forums
- Peer-to-peer networking
- Newsletters
- Podcasting
- Picture galleries
- File uploads and downloads
How do I get started?
Before you start installing stuff and typing in content, you should consider what purpose your site will have, how should it look and what types of content should it contain? Will you deliver all the content or will the users contribute it? How will the user navigate the content? (more…)