Drupal is a free, open-source Content Management System (CMS) that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless possibility of customization. Drupal is a free, community-built website development tool. It allows you to easily create, update and manage a website without requiring a lot of technical know-how. Drupal uses a point-and-click interface to let you add pages, menus, images and file uploads and it enforces security, so you can apply permissions to different kinds of users. As your website grows, it's easy to add custom features from the thousands of free modules you can download. Drupal is highly regarded as one of the best website frameworks available and is rapidly gaining adoption all over the globe.
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Whether you intent a simpleton as personal blog or a mammoth enterprise scale application, Drupal can easily shoulder your intent-to-platform journey and even surprise you by the end of it leaving you wondering how simple it was!
Its ecosystem is well supported by a huge open source community of 630,000+ users and developers that work tirelessly to ensure a safe, performing & simple platform for end users. It encapsulates the latest technologies the web has to offer due to its constant supervision and brainstorming community. Already adopted by hundreds of thousands of sites worldwide with some notable mentions - www.whitehouse.gov, San Jose State University, Harvard, MIT and Council on Writing Program Administrators, to name a few.
An elaborate glance of possibilities is available @ - https://drupal.org/case-studies.
It has great market tractions in Government sites, news publications, education, community portal and Enterprise websites to highlight a few of the many verticals.
Drupal laurels galore [Full list - https://drupal.org/about/awards] :
- Infoworld Bossie Awards 2010, 2011 & 2012 The best open source applications
- Drupal is the Best Open Source Applications 2010 winner
- Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards 2009: Open Source CMS Hall of Fame (2nd place)
- Best PHP Open Source Content Management System (1st place) 2009
- Open Source CMS Hall of Fame 2009