About Drupal

Drupal is a open-source content management system (CMS), developed in the programming language PHP and published under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

 

Drupal's popularity

Drupal has become very popular the last years. It's been downloaded more then 2 million times already from homebase Drupal.org. Behind it is a large community, which is alway developing Drupal even further. In the Open Source CMS Award 2009 Drupal won the "2007 Overall Open Source CMS award." According to the rules, a cms can only be first in on category.... else it would also have one the Best PHP Open Source CMS and the Best Open Source Social Networking CMS!

 

So, why Drupal?

We'd love to show you, but to begin - here are the best reasons:

  • Open sourse, so widely supported
  • Since it's open source, you don't have to rely on one supplier
  • Functionalities are endless, thanks to thousands and thousands of modules developed by the Drupal Community.
  • Layout and content is separated, so every design is possible.
  • Very search-engine friendly! Especially Google reads Drupal websites extremely well, so Drupal sites are ranked high in the Google Search Results.

 

Who's using Drupal?

 

It's good to know there are some major companies using Drupals. Here's a list of other companies who also thought Drupal would be the perfect solution for there online wants.

Technical specifications

Drupal operates on Windows, MacOS, Linux and every other avalaible platform that supports Apache webservice (v 1.3+), or IIS (v IIS5+) and PHP (v 4.7.5+). Because Drupal needs a database to save content and settings, the must be access to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

 

Drupalcon

 

Drupalcon Szeged 2008This year Internet Unlimited has been to the Drupalcon 2009 in Paris! 

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