Drupal How To
Drupal is an open source technology based content management system. Drupal
is highly preferred because it offers a robust helpfulness framework. Here, it
is worth mentioning that its design allows many alternative website capabilities
to be added by using various modules and mini-applications. Drupal came into
existence during 2001 and has emerged as the most demanded open source content
management system application in the last few years. Today, it has approximately
seventy thousand community customers and contributors. Drupal is compatible with
PHP, MySQL or PostgreSQL and offer extreme versatility.
Similar to other content management systems, Drupal helps a database to include
entire website's content or other textual content. It unites the textual content
with the website design template in order to make attractive website pages.
Drupal CMS is handled via an administrator page. The administrator page enables
the website administrator to log into the website CMS and have a control over
the complete website. You can create menus, modules, new pages through its user
friendly features. The main advantage of using Drupal is, it allows the
administrator to assign different types of capabilities to different customers.
For example, you have some content material based on software development but
you do not have time to publish it. You can assign the work to the people who
can have edit and publish it on your behalf. This strategy is highly beneficial
for proper work and resource allocation. Make sure that are able to maintain
strict management and control over the website content to ensure quality
performance.
One of the powerful features of Drupal is that the registered customers can
access the website menus, and the pages will not be visible to the final public.
It is done through a proper registration system. You can use user registration
and login system to give your staff access to the limited pages only such as
allowing the client to access buyer-only pages or sales people to enter sales
related pages only. Apart from other easy to operate features, it also helps in
quick and effective communication.
With the helps of Drupla, you can easily send an email to all registered users.
You can enable or disable any feature as per your convenience such as you can
disable person registration option if you do not want to offer this function to
the user. Drupal can be used in many ways and compatible with almost every
feature. The main usage of Drupal is
- To create company website and portal
- To build corporate intranet and extranet
- Community portals
- For small size company's website
- To develop ecommerce website
- To publish online magazine
Drupal is ultimate for a non-techo savvy person. You can edit website content, insert images and also can make new pages without knowing any languages such as HTML.
