#CMS Platform: Drupal

Drupal is the leading open source CMS(content management system). Today, Drupal is developed and maintained by largest open source community of the world and downloaded over a million times. There are thousands & thousands of modules with features and functionality. Drupal is an application framework where you can built other application, it’s a software to update, organize and present a website. Drupal is open source platform and has great standard features like: scalable, stable and secure. Drupal is offered under a General Public License (GPL).

History & Story behind Drupal

Dries Buytaert from Netherlands, developed Drupal. Originally, it was originated as a bulletin board system. It became an Open Source project in 2001. There is an interesting story behind the name “Druple” like “Google”. Buytaert made a typo when checking the domain name(Drop.org) as he wanted to call the site "dorp" ("village" in Dutch) for its community aspects, decided the altered form sounded better (Drupal is a transliteration of the Dutch "druppel" which means droplet). (Dries Buytaert personal site)

Why Drupal ?

It’s indeed an important question: Why we need Drupal, when we already have various CMS like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Prestashop etc ? Let’s answer the elephant in the room.

1. Reliable and Open Source: Druple is most popular open source CMS, which means you can modify and share it and stable enough in every version, despite being into continuous development phase.

2. Highly Scalable and Secure: With wide availability of contributed modules, you can extend your Drupal core to higher level. Moreover, you can create your modules as it’s open source. Above all, it’s tested upto high security standard by it’s contributors and experts. Configuration files can’t be accessed directly as it lock down whatever directly installed.

3. Search Engine Friendly and Mobile Ready: You can write URLs that are affable to both users and search engines using Apache’s url-rewrite. Additionally, the content created in Drupal has permalink that boost search ranking and page views. Moreover, you don’t have to worry about the layout of your site/blog content as it would appear similar on tabs, phone or the desktop for that matter.

4. Huge Community Support: Since, Drupal is backed and supported by one of the world's largest community that comprises of Expert developers and users. You can share and exchange your experience and get assistance over there.

Who uses Drupal?

You can estimate the significance of Drupal just by looking at some of the big sites with extreme security using it. Like: whitehouse.org, commerce.gov, weforum.org, and media leaders like BBC, NBC, and MTV UK. Do we need to say more?

Closing Thoughts

Overall, Drupal is Open source, flexible and powerful then other similar platforms and that's the only reason why the most secured and big website like whitehouse.gov rely upon Drupal.