Drupal Overview
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Free 3d-party CMS.
Official site: http://drupal.org .
Advantages: templates control; system architecture; API; taxonomy; community.
Disadvantages: difficulty of working without preparation.
If you wish to completely control appearance and functionality of your site (level of control depends only on your desire), and thus not using dirty methods (like hacks of initial code of the core and modules) and to work only through API and extremely flexible template system – Drupal is for you.
In general, Drupal is first of all a constructor. The core contains only the most necessary — the lowest level which functions will be used in various modules. Basic Drupal installation already has many modules inside (such as blog, forum, search etc.). All is arranged very reasonably and smartly, and there are at least two ways to make what is necessary almost always. Sometimes this choice itself is a problem — it is possible to make … read more