Drupal for efficient CMS Website Development

Drupal, the free and open source content management framework written in PHP, provides data access framework to over 2.2% websites of the world. It is gaining popularity rapidly and is being used for creating personal blogs, corporate/political/government websites and is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

Drupal offers comprehensive CMS solutions which are tailored to specific needs. Its various products cater to different types of websites based on functionality. Drupal core offers basic features of a CMS such as user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS feeds, taxonomy, page layout customization, and system administration. It is optimal for developing a simple website, a single/multiple user blog, Internet forum or a community website providing user generated content.

Professional Web development companies like Enterprise web cloud, rely on Drupal for more advanced CMS website development owing to increased functions and features along with better design and technical support options.

The core modules of Drupal core can be used to extend functionality of a website. It's key features include access statistics and logging; advanced search Blogs, books, comments, forums, and polls; caching and feature throttling for improved performance; descriptive URLs; multi-level menu system; multi-site support; multi-user content creation and editing, openID support; RSS feed and feed aggregator; security and new release update notification; various access control restrictions (user roles, IP addresses, email); workflow tools (triggers and actions) and many more.

Core themes of Drupal Core are used to customize the appearance of Drupal websites with the help of color modules, introduced in Drupal Core 5.0.

Drupal supports over 110 international languages and Drupal CMS websites boast of a greater accessibility as compared to other CMS.

In a nutshell, Drupal is the CMF of choice for effective CMS website development.