What is Drupal?
Drupal (pronounced "droo-puhl") is a website Content Management System (or CMS) that allows an individual, business, community, or enterprise to publish, organize, and maintain a wide variety of content on a website.
Drupal is open-source, released under the GNU General Public License, which means that it is freely available to anybody that wishes to use it. It is arguably one of the most widely used CMS platforms currently available, with hundreds of thousands of sites running it. Well-known sites include: The White House, Best Buy, 20th Century Fox Searchlight, and Warner Bros. Recordings, just to name a small few.
Drupal has a massive active community, which helps to drive innovation. It has tons of built-in functionality, as well as thousands of freely available modules, that make it easy and cost-effective to deploy features such as:
- Electronic commerce
- Blogs
- Collaborative authoring environments
- Forums
- Peer-to-peer networking
- Newsletters
- Podcasting
- Picture galleries
- File uploads and downloads
- 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
VMT is one of the most prolific Drupal development firms around. We have been deploying sites in Drupal since 2007, and launch numerous Drupal-based websites each month. If you are considering deploying a new website, or are specifically interested in Drupal, please contact us to learn how we can help!
