What is Drupal?

"Drupal" is a content management system (CMS) that is widely used, in active develpment, and also happens to be very well written. A "content management system" is a bunch of computer code that makes it easy for you to build and maintain your website. In this case, it's not a program on your computer, but on the computer that serves your website. Here's the story about why it's called Drupal.

It's also popular - it just won the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award from packt publishing.

There are lots of good reasons to use a content management system, and most of the time I recommend Drupal. Of course, not all sites need that much complexity, or that type of complexity, so I can be ecumenical (or maybe just practical) when necessary.

For example, this site isn't built with Drupal.

To learn more about Drupal:

• 1. visit the Drupal site,

  2. look at a case study by IBM,

1. track my activity within the drupal community

or head back to my home page.