Drupal Content Management System

Content rich web sites can get very difficult to manage very fast, With some up front investment, the cost of adding content can be greatly reduced. One such Content Management System for web sites is Drupal, the one used to build this page. Drupal is suited for the construction of many different kinds of web sites:

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate web sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal web sites or blogs
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce applications
• Resource directories
• Social Networking sites

Out of the box, it comes with dozens of features:

• Content Management Systems
• Blogs
• Collaborative authoring environments
• Forums
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Newsletters
• Podcasting
• Picture galleries
• File uploads and downloads

Plus there are dozens of add-in modules. Without a guide, Drupal can be hard to get into. There are a number of resources on the 'net and books are coming out. It takes about a day to get started and perhaps a week to develop a modestly comprehensive site.