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About Drupal
What is Drupal?
Drupal is a powerful and leading open-source software infrastructure package that allows the creation of cost-effective and sophisticated content, community and online shopping websites. Users in these websites easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content and services. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including:
- Community web portals
- Social Networking sites
- E-commerce applications
- Dynamic content websites
- Discussion sites
- Corporate web sites
- Intranet applications
- Blogs and UGC
- Resource directories
Benchmarks & Evaluations
Drupal was selected as a robust platform with top functionality by evaluation benchmarks and expert centers worldwide. Worthwhile to mention is IBM's detailed analysis and benchmark project that has selected Drupal as the open-source platform of choice, see IBM Benchmark.
Success Stories
There are many thousands of Drupal-based websites, both Intranet portals and on the net. A recent check shows more than 64,000 websites on the net alone, of which many are community websites.
Drupal Sites provides an extensive reference of Drupal-based sites that chose to post themselves as such for reference.
Architecture
A Drupal-based website portal is composed of ready-made, standard-based, open, customizable and extensible functional modules on top of the Drupal content and community management engine.
Drupal's presentation layer is completely standard and is separate from the data and logic layers and thus is totally open to any layout, graphical design and theme defined in CSS and templates.
Drupal Modules
Drupal modules are interconnected and tightly coupled using a standard Drupal API. All modules share common authorization, presentation, navigation, administration and customization interfaces.
Having currently over 370 Drupal modules available with new ones constantly introduced, this modular approach assures unparallel instant availability of additional cutting-edge services and functionalities, when needed, to keep pace with Web2.0 community and content websites trends.
For a complete list of modules, see Drupal Modules.
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