Friday, April 11, 2008
Drupal - Best CMS I have ever seen
Drupal is an open source Content Management System (CMS). Few weeks ago I discovered Drupal and have started loving it. Most of the time I use my own framework to develop sites. I made that framework with Smarty Template and ADODB library. But this does not satisfy my all needs as I have to develop a site from the scratch with it. I was looking for a better framework or CMS. I tried Joomla, it is also a very good CMS. But I have found that I need to do lots of work to customize it. I think Joomla is very good if you want it only for CMS solution. But I need a system to use it both as CMS & a framework.
In this case I have found, Drupal is the best. At the first sight I love it for it's simplicity but powerful environment. Another great thing I like about Drupal is it's community support, which is very large and strong. Thousands of Module are available in Drupal site contributed by the community. Most of the time you do not need to develop a functionality by yourself, just download a module from Drupal website, uncompress it and put it in your Drupal's module directory. You will find lots of tutorial & help about creating modules & theme in Drupal.org.
Here are few links & resources of Drupal:
- Drupal Main Site
- Download: Drupal
- Download: Modules
- Download: Themes
- Download: Translations
- Beginner Tutorial: Getting Started
- Advanced Tutorial: Beyond the Basics
- Theming Tutorial
- Videos & Slides
- Drupal Groups
- Drupal Forums
- Drupal Showcase
Lots of great sites have developed using Drupal. One of them is Ubuntu.com. It is also used by new Sun HPC portal. Watch the following interview of Scott Mattoon, Chief Architect, US Western Region, Sun Microsystem, INC about their experience of using Drupal.
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Thanks so much for the info on Drupal. I hadn't heard of it before but it sounds like something that I could definitely use in the future. I've got a lot of learning left to do so I'll definitely be back to check out your site again soon.
nice article...
drupal rocks.
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Very helpful info and thanks for sharing Drupal is the best.
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