Introduction to Drupal
Drupal is one of the best Content Management Systems around. Its basic installation can be easily turned into many different types of web page - from simple web blogs to large online communities.
In addition to its simplicity and functionality, Drupal has a rapidly growing community and is becoming more and more popular online. Even the default Drupal installation has almost everything you need to quickly build a web page, blog, or community. And there are hundreds of addons (modules) that help webmasters further customize each Drupal site.
This Drupal tutorial is intended to give you a basic knowledge of drupal. In order to use Drupal, you don't need any programming experience. Yet, after reading the tutoruial, you will need to spend several hours administering Drupal to become familiar with how things work.
What is Drupal?
Drupal is a php/mysql based software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites, including:
Drupal sites can be used as:
Drupal is open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.Drupal is free to download and use, and can be installed with several mouse clicks on indichosts.net hosting servers.
Here is a summary of reasons why you should choose Drupal among other Content Management Systems:
Easy to install - installation described at this URL
Easy to use - no programming knowledge needed!Read through this tutorial to find out how to use Drupal.
Lots of features, such as custom search engine friendly URLs(SEF), categories, search function...
Lots of modules to add even more functionality to your site.
Flexibility - you can easily turn your drupal installation into a forum, faq, blog, wiki and many other types of web sites.
Free to use, open source. You can freely install drupal and you can modify the source code in order to fit your needs, if you want.
Lots of users & community - easy to find solutions to your problems. The large community guarantees that Drupal will have a bright future.