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Build A Website Easily With Drupal

By Tim Andersson

Drupal is free open source software that was created at the University of Antwerp in 2000 by two students, Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder. The name "Drupal" is based on the English pronunciation of the Dutch word "druppel," which means "drop." Drupal's coding is in PHP.

This software is a very sophisticated Content Management System (CMS) and can be used to construct a variety of online applications such as websites, blogs and social networking sites. There is virtually no limit to what you can use Drupal for, but most importantly, Drupal is free.

There is no need to understand computer programming languages when you use Drupal. All this software requires is some basic technical knowledge like how to do word processing and how to browse. You don't need anything like advanced programming or HTML skill to use this award-winning CMS. Drupal includes an intuitive, easy-to-use web installer that makes the installation of the software very simple. Once the software is installed, you choose the design and content types for your website.

Drupal is a content management system that offers multiple benefits. It's SEO-friendly, and it provides you with better control over the structure of your website's URLs. It can customize the content of your website and help your site obtain better search engine rankings. Drupal also offers a Content Construction Kit that helps you to easily develop various types of website content.

Drupal has a wonderful online community for developers. The community members are ready to help and constantly work toward improving the technology. There is a lot of information on the Internet about Drupal and how to use it to do various things.

It's easy to learn how to use Drupal, but you should learn how to use it the right way. Private tuition or lessons are by far the best, but this is much too expensive for most people. Another way to learn Drupal is to just play around with it and pick it up along the way. If, however, you are serious about using Drupal as your Content Management System, then looking at several Drupal Tutorials is probably the best solution. Many tutorials are available on the Internet. The most popular are assembled at the Drupal Tutorials website.

Drupal isn't used only for creating websites. Because the software configuration is so flexible you can use Drupal to build e-commerce systems with strong branding. You might encounter some problems while learning how to do this but your questions can be easily resolved because the Drupal CMS is backed by strong community support.

Take a look around the online market. You will discover that there are many corporate and social websites that are built on Drupal, including MTV, BBC, TheOnion, PopSugar, Forbes and NASA. Even whitehouse.gov, Barack Obama's website, is built using Drupal!

Whether you want to build a small website or a website that's very large, Drupal is a powerful solution. It has an extensive library of tutorials and jobs working with Drupal are some of the most wanted on the market today. So don't hesitate any longer. Use Drupal and walk along with its progress.

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