10reasons to choose_drupal

10 Reasons to Use Drupal

DECEMBER 9, 2011

1. You Want to Build a Large Website

Drupal is very flexible and can be used to facilitate:

–Blogging

–Forums

–Image Galleries

–E-commerce

–Podcasting

–And many more! There are over 9,000 modules to choose from!

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2. You want an Easy-to-Use CMS

• Drupal 7 made notable changes to the content editing screen to make content settings easier to view at a glance and edit.


3. You Want to Customize the Look and Feel of

Your Website

• There are over 1,000 free themes to choose from, and you can customize with some basic CSS and PHP knowledge.


Drupal Theming Examples

4. You Want a Search-Engine Friendly Site

• Modules to send your sitemap to search engines regularly to help them find new content

• Search Engine friendly URLs, which are critical to a page's search ranking

• Control over the Page Title

5. You Want a Strong Support System

• Drupal has a strong community of passionate developers constantly working on improvements, bugs, keeping Drupal secure, and offering technical support.


6. You Own the Code & Content

• Open source means no single entity owns the code

• Entire site is portable from one host to another

• There is no Software License Cost to use Drupal


7. You Want a Multilingual Site

• Drupal supports over 100 languages including some right-to-left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic

8. You Want a Reliable & Secure Site

• Drupal has a team of security professionals testing Drupal’s security and releasing updates whenever vulnerabilities are found

• Administrators are notified of updates when they occur and can update pretty easily.

• Secure enough to use for whitehouse.gov


9. You Want Dynamic Lists of Content

• Most popular Drupal module is the Views module which offers a way to build dynamic lists of content and RSS feeds.

• Can be used to build calendars, RSS feeds, slideshows, and custom content searches pulling content based on defined filters.

10. You Care About the Future of Your CMS

• Drupal has been around since 2001

• It has won many awards

• It is supported by a very active and passionate community

• Development for Drupal 8 is already under way!


Other Things Drupal Offers

• W3C standards compliance – future-proof your code

• Built-in Search

• Support for different types of users and permissions

• Robust taxonomy tools

• Custom Content Types

Alternatives to Drupal

• Joomla (free, plug-ins cheap)

• Plone (built on Python not PHP, very steep learning curve, good for intranets)

• Ektron (enterprise-level CMS built in .NET, not open source, pricey)

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