What is Drupal? By Peter Nisbet At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

What is Drupal? It is one of the leading content management systems (CMS) available online. Modules are used to display and organize content, manage tasks and customize the site.

Drupal is an open source CMS and is therefore accessible to anyone free of charge. There are some web designers who will sell some of their customizations, but those are not the majority of Drupal users who tend to use the software to design their own websites, blogs, forums, etc. Top do so, however, they have to learn how to use it.

The programming language used is PHP which is a good language for creating dynamic web sites, and is also compatible with many operating systems; among them Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It also needs a database to store the settings and contents, although the ubiquitous MySQL is good enough for this.

Drupal can be used to create e-commerce systems and photo galleries, as only two examples of the many modules that Drupal has to offer. Even though the system comes with default settings these can easily be changed to allow more advanced forms of website to be built.

The Drupal CMS package has received a lot of praise, but there are some who have found it difficult to learn. However, its dynamic nature allows modules to be modified to produce professional looking websites, and enable communities to quickly and easily create, publish, organize and manage content on their websites.

The difficulty in learning how to use Drupal should not be difficult to resolve, and there are Drupal video tutorials available that can not only answer the question what is Drupal, but also answer 'how is Drupal used'.

One of the benefits of using Drupal in your online business is that it allows for consistent branding. Using this system you can have your images, content, surveys, blogs, polls and e-commerce sites on the same web site. You are therefore able to brand your site accordingly. Drupal is also easy to use if you have the right tuition.

Your website can be up and running in under a week because it is easy to use once you have mastered the basics. You will quickly be able to insert videos, create documents, put up images and sell products on your site. Drupal is also is flexible. There are a large number of modules you can use in your design, and you can ignore those you need not use.

A Drupal video course is the easiest way to learn, and once mastered you can design forms, ecommerce stores, polls, survey and blogs with ease. Manuals are fine, but most people learn best by video, where they can pause and follow exactly what is being done by carrying out the same actions on their own computer. The truth of a video is that if you do exactly as shown, you will get, exactly the same results. You can't say that of a manual.

If you are a first time user of Drupal then a video tutorial will be an excellent choice. You will have someone walking you through every step of the site creation process. This means that you will not get lost or feel overwhelmed in the process. Additionally, a video tends to be interactive unlike a book or manual. You watch the person demonstrating the actions being taken in the video, and as they demonstrate one step you can follow along, pausing if necessary.

What is Drupal? It is a method of designing the physical form of what is seen by others online: websites, blogs, forums, shopping pages and so on. If it looks good people will stay on your website, and Drupal makes it look good.

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