Understanding Drupal
Welcome to the world of node, content and taxonomy. These are the few pillars from many in drupal. In layman language Drupal is a technology which allow user /admin to create website or WebPages without having in-depth coding knowledge.

We can consider Drupal as Content Management System (CMS), Content Management Framework (CMF) or a Web Application Framework (WAF). Now Drupal encompasses so many high end properties that it can be used to create anything from simple blog to complex social networking application, from simple Ecommerce site to complex Financial application.

It is open source software maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers. It's distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or "GPL"), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others. The Drupal project's principles encourage modularity, standards, collaboration, ease-of-use, and more.

It is based on following principles:

  • Modular and extensible
  • Quality coding
  • Standards-based
  • Low resource demands
  • Open source
  • Ease of use
  • Collaboration

Why you need drupal services?
This is the question most often comes in mind, or taking it other way we can say that what are the merits of Drupal over other CMS. Let me explain this point briefly to you.

First of all it is free source i.e. you don't have to pay a single penni to download and use Drupal. Second, is the Drupal giant community. Drupal comprises of millions of members who are actively contributing to make Drupal more friendly. Drupal community is always available to solve issues related to Drupal.

Also it uses 'Web 2.0' style in which core features and functionality can be rapidly deployed to market, with iterative enhancements and customisations made over time.

In terms of growth it has witnessed 100% growth and now there is more deviation towards Drupal. Also Drupal community conducts yearly seminar. These seminars are excellent platform for new masters in Drupal. Also these seminars are used as launching pad for new features in Drupal.

In additions it has very large knowledge base. Millions Drupal classes and tutorials are available for free in internet, which make it easier for newbie to get familiar with Drupal.

Drupal is voted no #1 in Webware100 award. This makes it more reliable. Today millions of big site are using Drupal as their platform ranging from Financial Sector, Government Sector to Social Sector.

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