There have been many articles written about the technical reasons to use Drupal, but what are the “real world” benefits? I hope to make that a bit clearer here in just a few words...
Drupal is a tool for creating powerful web sites. It is managed and maintained by various developers around the globe with a whole range of interest areas. By contributing their (and our) efforts to a central pool, we can all benefit from each other's work. This means we don't reinvent the wheels that have already been created by someone else. A simple example is an image gallery... once one has been created why spend time trying to do it again if somebody has already provided a perfect solution?
So why would anyone give away their work for free?
The answer is that by “opening up” the source code for anyone to contribute to allows for feedback and improvement of a particular feature (or “module” in Drupal parlance). This collaboration creates a whole eco-system resulting in a far better product than traditional developer time constraints. It also leads to many discussions about how best to solve problems rather than hacking together ad-hoc solutions for each project.
Because of these reasons Drupal offers us a wide range of tools that are:
- Secure or robust
- Well thought out by many people and from many different backgrounds
- Accessible for developers to extend and enhance features
- Flexible to work with custom designs
We are a proud member of the Drupal Association who nurture improvements to Drupal project on a grander scale.
So what does Drupal mean for you? Please leave your comments below...
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Good explanation
Thu, 03/03/2011 - 17:18 — Damian LeeThat's a great introduction to the Drupal world - If I wasn't already a Drupal nut you would have me convinced. The community is probably Drupal's biggest asset.
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Thu, 29/12/2011 - 03:19 — high intensity ...Drupal for me is just like some other content management system such as Wordpress and Joomla. I've been a web developer for almost 5 years, for me using drupal is quite complicated as compared to wordpress and Joomla. The customization process is a little bit hard.
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Mon, 02/01/2012 - 16:50 — PozycjonowanieDrupal is nice and easy to use. its major drawback is that its very heavy on resources so the websites created with it are slow.
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