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01. INTRODUCTION

Drupal, the open source content management system (CMS) is a powerful system that can be used for large, complex sites and it's the best platform that exists today for search engine optimisation (SEO). Drupal's built-in tools for automating SEO on massive amounts of content, along with granular control that gives you absolute power over every single site element, put it head and shoulders above the rest.

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900,000 people in 228 countries speaking 181 languages power Drupal

Drupal is a very powerful system that can be used for large, complex sites like Whitehouse.gov, Mensa.org, and Legaro.fr, the oldest and second-largest newspaper in France. Some other sites you may also have heard of: The Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Records, The United Nations, MTV Europe, Sony Music, Playstation Asia, The Economist and General Motors.

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2007
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02. BENEFITS

Developers love Drupals well-documented APIs. Designers love its exibility. Site administrators love the limitless scalability.

ORGANIZE & FIND Drupal comes with many tools to help you organize, structure, nd and re-use your content. Categorize with taxonomy, automatically create friendly path urls, create custom lists, associate content with other content on your site, and create smart defaults for content creators. CREATIVE CONTENT Manage content with an easy-to-use web interface. Drupal's exibility handles countless content types including video, text, blog, podcasts, and polls with robust user management, menu handling, real-time statistics and optional revision control. ADMINISTER Drupal comes with great options for new user accounts and user permissions. Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with ne-grained permissions allowing users view and create only what the administrator permits. COLLABORATE Drupal's focus on social publishing can help you create sites and applications to help your users express their opinions and engage with one another. You can have tight control over who can create, view, administer, publish and otherwise interact with content on your site.

BUILD No need to start from scratch every time you build a new site. You can utilise a multi-site conguration or choose a Drupal distribution (installation prole). These provide a pre-dened conguration of site features and functions for a specic purpose or type of site, available as a single download. DESIGN AND DISPLAY Drupal's presentation layer allows designers to create highly usable, interactive experiences that engage users and increase tra c. EXTEND With more than 16,000 available modules, the vast majority of your site's requirements can be addressed with Drupal core and available add-on modules. Focus your e orts on building great web sites, not re-creating features available elsewhere. CONNECT Drupal makes it easy to connect your website to other sites and services across the web, using aggregation, feeds, and search engine connection capabilities. Social networking integration is also widely supported to help you engage with a wider audience. Drupal also o ers your site easy ways to interact with external media and le services.

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03. KEY FEATURES

Drupal's many features and add-ons allow it to be used for a variety of website needs; marketing, internal communications, informational websites, or even for social networking.

HIGHLY TUNED SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION (SEO) A Drupal website will be optimally tuned for search engines through the provision of natural language URLs, permanent links to content, customisable page metadata and an automatically generated XML sitemap. ONLINE COMMUNITY FEATURES Drupal installs with forums, commenting, polls, blogging, RSS feed aggregation and rich user proles by default, while a range of modules and custom development can facilitate any imaginable form of user generated content or interaction on par with the Facebooks, YouTubes and Flickrs of the world. TRACKING AND STATISTICS By default, Drupal contains its own user tracking and statistics, but can be easily integrated with third party reporting tools such as Google Analytics. CONTENT ADMINISTRATION A range of core and contributed modules provides a very high degree of editorial workow and management depending on the size of the organisation and amount of content being managed.

WYSIWYG CONTENT EDITING A range of modules can provide varying levels of WYSIWYG editing control depending upon the complexity of editing requirements. CONTENT SYNDICATION Every page or section within a Drupal website can be published as an RSS feed if required. Other web services standards are supported for di erent types of integration with external systems. IN-BUILT SEARCH Drupal's own internal search engine provides either standard or advanced modes of searching by default, and any manner of search can be customised. If you just want to use Google as your Drupal website search engine, a simple module is easily installed. CONTRIBUTED MODULES If Drupal core doesn't facilitate what you want to do, thousands of free contributed modules are available that may provide what you need.

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03. KEY FEATURES

Drupal is a fully featured content management system which can be innitely enhanced through the installation of contributed modules or by customised development.

PLATFORM, WEB SERVER AND DATABASE INDEPENDENT While the standard install conguration is on Linux, Apache and MySQL or PostgreSQL, Drupal can also be installed on Windows servers running IIS and Microsoft SQL Server, Solaris, BSD or Mac OS X if there's a requirement to do so. GRANULAR USER MANAGEMENT Drupal allows total control of user role denitions and permissions for access to di erent functions within your website. MULTIPLE CONTENT TYPES Drupal provides complete exibility over dening how di erent content types (e.g. articles, blog posts, news stories) appear and the functionality associated with each content type, such as allowing or disallowing user comments. FLEXIBLE TAXONOMY AND MENU STRUCTURES The taxonomy module provides limitless customisation over the categories a content type is associated with, while the menu structure can be congured in any manner required. This exibility makes the traditional CMS "Section > Category > Article" paradigm obsolete if you need complex ways to categorise your content, or you can keep things as simple as you like.

STANDARDS COMPLIANT TEMPLATING & THEMING Drupal separates all content from the presentation layer, allowing you to fully customise the design and layout of your website using standards compliant HTML and CSS. A large number of high quality, pre-built themes are available that may help fasttrack the design of your project instead of starting from scratch and investing in a fully customised website design. DEVICE-SPECIFIC DISPLAY (RESPONSIVENESS) If your website needs to be optimised for mobile or other devices, Drupal can detect the browser being used and serve a specic display theme for that device.

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04. ACCESSIBILITY & USABILITY

ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
As an inclusive community, we are committed to making sure that Drupal is an accessible tool for building websites that can also be accessed by people with disabilities. We have committed to ensuring that all features of Drupal core conform with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0.

USABILITY AIMS
FOR DEVELOPERS, DRUPAL IS A SYSTEM THAT IS: Well-tooled with a system of hooks that provide ready means to accomplish most foreseeable coding aims that involve interaction with core elements. FOR ADMINISTRATORS, DRUPAL AIMS TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE: Easy to install and set up so that there is a minimum requirement for specic technical expertise. Intuitive and self-explanatory so that administrators can easily nd the conguration options they need. Highly congurable so that site administrators can present just the interface they wish. FOR USERS, ALL ELEMENTS OF THE DRUPAL USER INTERFACE SHOULD BE: Intuitive and self-explanatory so that users with minimal prior experience can easily discover, navigate, and use functionality. Uncluttered so that users are not faced with a di cult task of sorting the essential from the non-essential.

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05. BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY

Preserving backward compatibility often requires that you drag historical baggage along, and in interpreted languages like PHP, this comes at a signicant performance cost. BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR DATA, NOT CODE
Everyone considering Drupal should understand that Drupal development is always on the cutting edge, and with each major release there will be radical improvements. While the upgrade path will reliably preserve your data, there is no backward compatibility with the previous Drupal code. 1. Each new major release of Drupal contains many, often radical, improvements in functionality, scalability and usability. 2. These advancements are made possible by not maintaining backwards compatibility with previously released code (however, stable and reliable upgrade paths are part of the planning for each and every release). 3. There is ALWAYS a path for updating your site with Drupal core. 4. Only the current stable release series and the previous release series (e.g., 7.x and 6.x) are supported by the Drupal development community at any given time. 5. As a result, each major release of Drupal will eventually age to the point that it is no longer actively supported by the Drupal community. 6. Unsupported releases may, in the future, be found to be vulnerable to as-yet-undiscovered or yet-to-be-invented security vulnerabilities. 7. Therefore, people adopting Drupal for their web or CMS project should plan for periodic upgrades of their project to the latest major release (every 12-24 months) in order to benet from the ongoing active support of one of the nest open source development communities.

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06. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The Drupal mission is to develop a leading edge opensource content management system that implements the latest thinking and best practices in community publishing, knowledge management, and software design. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
For Drupal 7, you need the following to get started: WEB SERVER PHP DATABASE SERVER Apache or Microsoft IIS 5.2 or higher MySQL 5.0 or higher PostgreSQL 8.3 or higher, or SQLite

Drupal is web-based, which means it is compatible with all operating systems.

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