About Drupal

What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free open source framework and Content Management System (CMS) that you may customize into a web application that fits your business needs.

The core Drupal distribution provides a number of features including:

Access statistics and logging
Advanced search functions
Caching and feature throttling for improved performance under load
Comments, forums, polls
Descriptive URLs
Multi-level menu system
Multi-site support
Multi-user content creation and editing
OpenID support
RSS Feed and Feed Aggregator
Security/new release updates notifications
User profiles
Various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses, email)
Workflow tools (Triggers and Actions)


The Drupal core is designed to be modular. This design allows third-party contributed modules and themes to extend or override Drupal's default behaviors without changing Drupal's core code.

Contributed Drupal modules offer a variety of features including image galleries, custom content types and listings, WYSIWYG editors, private messaging, 3rd-party integration tools, and more. The official Drupal website lists free modules written and contributed to by the Drupal community.


The following sites use drupal:

http://corp.aol.com/

http://fastcompany.com/

http://warnerbrothersrecords.com/

http://observer.com/

http://www.popsci.com/

http://www.amherst.edu/

http://research.yahoo.com/

http://elearning.psu.edu/

http://musicbox.sonybmg.com/