Why Drupal?

Content management is very important for a website. In the market today, the award winning CMS is none other than  Drupal . To have an idea on how good it is, the current website using these open-source content management systems includes Yahoo, The New York Observer and Discovery Channel.

The reason behind the success of  Drupal  is because of its many benefits. First, it is search engine friendly. It provides better control to you URL structure. It gives your website better ranking in the search engines because it can customize your content with clean URL. Besides that, it has something called CCK (Content Construction Kit) that acts as a tool that let you creates different types of content with ease. You can create new stories, blog post, tutorials and these are just to name a few. This is something that other CMS cannot provide you. In addition, you do not need to be an expert to be able to use this. Any newcomer or newbie will be able to use this.

With  Drupal , you will have revision control that lets you save a new version when you make any changes. So, if you do not like the new version, you can revert to the old version any time. Another added value of  Drupal  is its advanced categorization that easily organizes contents depending on its type. This is done by tagging contents based on categories. This feature makes keyword targeting an easier task when it is combined with CCK and view Modules feature.

For community-based websites, users can benefit from its user management systems. Users will have no limits regarding their access levelling controlling the websites functionality. Users can disabled the advanced management system in the beginning and only activate it once the website has reach a certain size.

Another added feature that has made  Drupal  so fantastic is because it is PHP based. With it, presentations on your website can get better enhancements. It is also easier to use because everything id scripted. Therefore, you do not need to have knowledge about PHP when using it.

The good thing is, even if you face some difficulties when using it, you can get answers very quickly because  Drupal  has got superb community support. You can get answers by asking questions in forums. You can even get video tutorials or even podcast. This is due to the popularity and the massive community using it.