Drupal – A Free Software Package for Content Publishing

An individual or a community will be able to publish, organize, manage the content on a website with the help of a free software package called Drupal. It is an open source software distributed under GPL (GNU General Public License).

The built in functionality enables the features like:

* General features: Collaborative book, friendly URL’S, modules, online help, personalization, role based permission system, searching.
* User management: user authentication
* Content management : polls, Templating, threaded comments, version control,
* Blogging:  blogger API support, content syndication, news aggregator, permalink
* Platform: Apache or IIS, UNIX, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X support, data base independence, multi language.
* Administration and analysis: tracking, statistics, analysis, logging and reporting, web based administration
* Performance, scalability community features.

Drupal can run on any  computing platform which supports  web server that is capable of running PHP version 4.3.5+ and a database to store the content and settings .and it also provides an interface for developers where programming skills are not requires for the purpose of website installation and administration. Automated testing has improved the Drupal core development process.

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