Choose Drupal for creating highly functional websites

In today’s competitive web world, where there is a constant need to outperform each other, websites need to be effectively optimized and should have all significant features in order to serve their intended purpose. In this regard, Drupal has emerged as a powerful Content Management System by means of which one can create websites (Corporate, Educational, Political, etc), Blogs, Forums and Directories having a wide range of functions.

Since Drupal is an open source system that offers several advantages such as free availability, easy installation process, easy to manage and maintain, compatible with different operating platforms etc and its usage has increased considerably and has become a popular choice among users and web developers to create websites rich in functions.

In this Article, we are going to highlight some of the features of Drupal that make it favorable:

Easy Management of Content – Whether you wish to add, edit, delete the site’s content, publish or unpublish it, Drupal’s User Administrator area allows you do so easily. There are well defined sections and sub-sections that enable you to post content according to its type, control its length and add comments, RSS feeds, etc in an easy manner. In addition it has an effective Content Construction Kit in place.

Modules – Drupal offers a large number of add-on modules that can be downloaded from its official website and further can be customized to increase functionality.

Themes – Just like Modules, Drupal provides several Contributed themes to enhance the visual appeal of a site. One can also hire customized themes from Drupal designers.

Users Management – It is an integrated feature that enables control over the user by defining the Access Rules and setting the permission guidelines. Under it, you can also define user roles and categorize them as ‘Authenticated user’, ‘Anonymous user’, ‘Administrator’ or ‘Moderator’. Its Users Settings part allows setting users registration and emailing settings and provides support for Signatures and pictures.

Drupal SEO Tools – Drupal comes with integrated SEO tools including keyword research and management, content optimization, Google Analytics, etc and offers various options of its SEO modules. In other words, Drupal takes care of reporting, analysis and optimization part and offers multiple tools for them.

Performance Optimization of a Drupal Site– For this a series of steps are to be followed which include:

• First Login as Administrator
• Enable the Caching option of Drupal; it can be found under the Performance Menu in Site Configuration in Administer.
• Similarly, Disable those Modules/Blocks that are not being used currently by going to the Modules Menu in Site Building option of Administer
• Lastly, it includes optimizing the MySQL database for which indexing is primarily done

These are just a handful of Drupal features, which otherwise offers a large number of options to explore and make use of in order to create websites with all -inclusive functionality. Now with the introduction of Drupal 7 that has brought forth a whole lot of interesting changes and improved features related to accessibility, user interface, image handling, security, performance, database, etc, the entire Drupal experience is going to be more fun.