About Drupal
- Drupal is a PHP based Open-Source Social Web Publishing Platform
- Drupal is the premier Open-Source Content Management System (CMS)
- See http://drupal.org/about for more information
Drupal makes it easy for non-technical people to complete highly complex online tasks. Drupal done correctly is highly effective at organizing information and enabling workflows in a very flexible way.
Drupal is oriented around communities, the most important being its extremely vibrant developer base. The software is constantly gaining advancements in functionality within both the core and contributed development arenas. When you use Drupal, you not only get the services of one web developer, but from thousands of individual developers and companies all over the world. It is built to serve the communities that exist within the companies and organizations that use it, granting the ability for all users, including those with little-to-no technical web expertise, to update even heavily integrated and complex sections of a site with ease.
Another great thing about Drupal is that it doesn’t necessitate certain criteria/content to create a great site. It can be used to build a variety of sites, ranging from community to news portals and corporate sites, to educational institutions and much, much more. It is currently being used as the foundation for hundreds of thousands of sites, including major corporate sites such as Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Sony BMG, The BBC, MTV, The Onion, Fast Company, Popular Science, Lonely Planet, Yahoo & AOL. For more examples of Drupal case studies, see http://drupal.org/cases.
Drupal recently ranked first in Packt's prestigious Overall Best Content Management System competition, and placed first in the Best Open Source PHP competition as well in October 2008, beating out competitors Joomla and DotNetNuke. (Read the entire article at http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-open-source-cms-award-winner-announced.) The Judging panel was comprised of a variety of experienced and respected figures in the open source and Content Management industry, and entrants were judged on a number of factors including (but not limited to) performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization. Because of its status as the content management system, Drupal developers and shops are in very high demand.