Drupal would have to be one of the most powerful FREE Content Management Systems currently available and released under the GPL (”General Public License”) .

With a web based installation, configuration is simple. You will however need to create your database first and modify a single settings file with your database username and password credentials before running the setup.

The core modules are enough to get a site up and running fairly quickly. For increased functionality be sure to take a look at the many (100’s) contributed modules.

Some of the great features of Drupal include:

• Friendly URL’s
• Modular design
• Role based permissions
• Online Help
• Collaborative authoring

You will probably want to create a personalized theme to show of your individualism or to match your company brand. Until you understand the architecture of Drupal the easiest way to do this will be to copy an existing one and modify accordingly. This is what I did with the first Drupal powered site that I created. However, these days I tend to create my themes from scratch (not too hard if you understand CSS, HTML and a little bit of PHP).

Drupal is suited to creating all sorts of different website including but not limited to:

• Blogs
• Community Sites
• Forums
• Photoblogs

Whatever the requirements for your next web project Drupal is certainly worth considering!

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