An introduction to Drupal: Build a Simple CMS

This is a content management system that is used to make websites and apps that we use daily. Drupal has features like security, performance, and easy content authoring. Its flexibility sets it apart and modularity is its core principle. Drupal is used for creating integrated digital frameworks. Drupal’s functionality is extended by Modules. The content’s presentation is customized by themes. The Distributions are packaged Drupal bundles that you can use as starter kits.

You can mix and match these components so as to enhance Drupal’s core capabilities. You can also integrate Drupal with other apps and external services in your infrastructure. This is the best CMS available today. Drupal’s standard release (aka Drupal core) has basic features common to CMS. These include: system administration, page layout customization, taxonomy, RSS Feeds, user account registration, and maintenance. The Drupal core installation can serve as a simple website, a community website providing user-generated content, an internet forum, or a single or multi-user blog.

Drupal has become an open-source project in the year 2001.

CORE:

In the Drupal community, the word Core means the code base that is built collaboratively and that can be extended via contributory modules and for versions before Drupal 8 is kept outside of the sites folder of a Drupal installation.

WHO USES DRUPAL:

Drupal is the platform on which France, London, the US, and more places use to communicate with its people. It is the framework media firms like MTV UK, NBC, and BBC rely on to entertain and inform the world. It is part of how universities and organizations like the University of Oxford and Amnesty International work to make this world a better place to live in.

Drupal 8:

This is the biggest update in Drupal History. Content creation is easier and every built-in theme is designed responsively. This is available in hundred languages, and its tools make it a hub for some complex ecosystems. More than 4,500 firms, companies, and people contributed their time, imagination and experience. As a result there are 200 new, good and improved features.

WHY USE DRUPAL:

1.  INNOVATION:

A PLATFORM FOR IDEAS AND DIGITAL INNOVATION

Drupal enables constant digital innovation, at some leading companies like NBC Universal and Weather.com. With the help of Drupal, web developers and marketers can create and manage great social, mobile, and web experiences. And also they can adapt and improve very fast thanks to the ongoing ideas and innovation from the Drupal community.

2.  SPEED:

BUILD NEW EXPERIENCES AND SITES FASTER

In Digital marketing speed matters. The Digital-first organizations need a platform that helps them to move fast and then capitalize on the business opportunities. The Drupal’s flexible platform allows developers and marketers to overcome delays and bottlenecks so that they can run an agile and a fast team and create some stunning experiences.

3.  SCALABILITY:

WORLD’S BUSIEST WEBSITES RUN ON DRUPAL

Drupal is enterprise ready for the world’s busiest sites like the Olympics and  GRAMMY.com where failure is not considered as an option. Apart from supporting high-traffic sites, Drupal will scale with your brands and business for your next-generation digital transformation.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS:

Drupal is a customizable platform and a web content management tool to help you build the correct tool to serve your strategy. Technology and business leaders use Drupal to create enterprise solutions that empower web innovation. When you assess Drupal, it is imperative to envision your goals and ask Can Drupal Do This.

The answer is almost always yes. That is because Drupal offers us limitless potential with module extensions and native features. It is a platform for the next innovative technology without disruption to your business.

1.  MOBILE FIRST:

Build responsive sites and create web apps that deliver optimal visitor experiences no matter what device they use. Drupal supports responsive design best practices and makes sure that the user experience is good.

2.  INTEGRATED DIGITAL APPLICATIONS:

Drupal easily integrates with a wide ecosystem of other business apps and digital marketing technology so that you can use some of the best sets of tools today and flex with some new tools tomorrow. And Drupal’s API- first focus means connecting content to the other apps and sites, thus making content more powerful.

3.  FLEXIBLE CONTENT ARCHITECTURE:

Make the correct content architecture using the Admin interface or do it programmatically. Here display only the content that is appropriate for each context with powerful views and display mode tools. Include a range of media types. The customizable menus make a good user experience, by creating paths to the content across multiple devices.

4.  MULTISITE:

You can manage a lot many sites across your organization, campaigns, geographies, and brands on just a single platform which allows quick and easy site creation and deployment.

5.  TOOLS FOR BUSINESS WITH NO LIMITATIONS:

Drupal does not dictate to the business, but the business dictates what it requires from Drupal. There are too many CMS platforms that impose their will on your business and force you to abide by their way of doing things. Drupal behaves in the opposite way: use Drupal to make a solution that supports your business needs. And Drupal makes a foundation for solutions that are limitless.

6.  STRONG STACK FOUNDATION:

Drupal lives on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) technology stack, that together meets the needs of fast-moving, agile enterprises, and flexible brands, building next-generation digital platforms.

7.  COMMUNITY OF EXPERIENCE AND TALENT:

The world-famous and worldwide Drupal community shares its secrets about how to get things done in the right way. For every possible question, there is an answer. You have to take advantage of the power of open source by building on the previously created solutions. The Drupal developers do have access to the worldwide community experience.