In the next part of this series taken from Create A Successful Website which covers Free Websites, we talk a little about Drupal’s power as a way to set up your own website or internet business.
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organise a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people, and most of them experienced developers, all over the world working on the software and so you get the benefit of their experience and expertise for free.
It offers a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion boards, news aggregation, metadata for optimisation and XML publishing for content sharing purposes.
Drupal is perhaps the most complex CMS available and without question the most powerful and flexible. It is perfectly suited to community and membership sites, with many social features built in. It has an API, meaning it can play ball with other applications and websites, such as Twitter and Facebook. It has a massive community of dedicated friendly developers, who create and maintain literally thousands of extensions, which will cover just about any requirement you could ever dream up.
It may not be easy to get to grips with, but with th
e widely available tutorials and one day workshop courses, such as the ones IKOS runs, it will be easy enough to teach yourself how to use Drupal for your website. All that’s required is your time and imagination. Take a look at drupal.org.
Take a look at this site I created using Drupal, it is pretty basic but shows what can be achieved with a bit of teach yourself motivation.
Watch out for the next part coming in a couple of days. If you can’t wait to see anymore get a free sample chapter or buy the book on Amazon. You may also want to take a peek at a few eBooks which feature other chapters in my bestselling book, Create A Successful Website.
