Drupal is a flexible content management system that is well-suited for a variety of uses including corporate sites, community sites, campaign sites, educational sites, and personal sites. It has a modular architecture that allows plugins to be enabled or disabled as needed. Drupal uses open source licensing and has an active community for support.

1. STANDARDS COMPLIANT
ACCESSIBLE
Use Cases
MODULAR
Corporate Sites
Drupal works well for internal and external corporate sites
STAB_LE
because of its flexible permissions system and easy web-
based publishing.
obsidian.co.za
Community Sites
FREE
Drupal excels as a platform for news sites and other
communities where stories are provided by the audience.
Incoming stories are automatically voted upon by the read-
ers and the best stories are promoted to the home page.
Submissions with poorer quality or of lesser interest are
hidden after enough negative votes.
Drupal
ecademy.com
Campaign Sites
Due to its strong networking, collaborative, and commu-
Contact Information
nity capabilities, Drupal is a powerful choice for grassroots
political campaigns.
E-mail Web
musicforamerica.com
info@drupal.org drupal.org
Educational Sites
As an online course platform, Drupal facilitates a strong
community-building environment and enhances student-
Relevant Links
centered collaborative learning. A package for education
distribution with extensive documentation is available.
Drupal
Forums Screenshots
drupaled.cyberdash.net
drupal.org/forum drupal.org/screenshots
Personal Sites
Mailing Lists Documentation
Drupal is great for a personal web site where the owner can
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
keep a blog, publish photos, and maintain a collection of drupal.org/lists drupal.org/handbook
links.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
Downloads Hosting & Services
urlgreyhot.com
COLLABORATION
drupal.org/download drupal.org/services
For more use cases, visit drupal.org/cases

2. Benefits Drupal Architecture Key Features
Standards Compliant Taxonomy
Drupal Modules
Drupal uses standards-compliant methods such as Drupal does much more than implement simple categories.
XHTML, separation of content and layout through CSS and Instead, Drupal’s flexible taxonomy system allows creation
Drupal’s architecture is truly modular. Apart from a few
clean URLs to make sites accessible and to improve search of unlimited separate classification schemes. Each of these
core modules, all plug-ins can be switched on and off as
required for the chosen setup. Available modules include
engine ranking. schemes can be arranged as a simple list, as a tree, or as
the following: a tree with interconnected branches. Administrators can
Stable choose different schemes to associate with each content
Custom type, and users may then browse tagged content by its
Drupal uses a database abstraction layer with support for Module
Customizable taxonomy terms.
Forums
several engines such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Along User Profiles
with support for database table prefixes, Drupal has been
Collaborative Book
extensively tested under high loads (such as a “Slashdot
effect”) and also includes built-in throttling and caching for
The book feature organizes content into a nested hierarchy.
E-mail Event
optimal performance. Weblogs It is particularly well-suited for manuals, Frequently Asked
notifications Calendar
Questions (FAQs), and user-contributed documentation.
Supported Comments may be posted to book pages, previous con-
tent revisions may be provided, and pages can be moved
Open Source
There is an active developer
amongst the hierarchy at any time.
Drupal is licensed
and user community that
Drupal Core
under the terms of the
participates in mailing lists,
Syndication
The Drupal core is the glue that binds everything togeth-
GNU General Public
forums, and IRC. Several
er. While Drupal modules focus on specific features, the
Licence (GPL),
consultants also offer paid
Drupal creates a syndicated RSS feed for others to gather
core contains common functions such as content and
giving the freedom
support and development
with a “news aggregator,” such as NetNewsWire or Feed-
user management. Thanks to the infrastructure provided
to customize and
using Drupal, and several
Demon. This allows your readers to view your latest con-
by the core, modules integrate seamlessly into Drupal.
redistribute the code.
ISPs specialize in hosting
tent from the comfort of their desktop. Similarly, Drupal
Drupal sites.
provides its own built-in web aggregator for reading and
collecting news from other sites.
Content User Taxonomy
Here to stay Management Management
Localization
Drupal has been in continuous development for over three
years. The same group of primary developers refines and
The Drupal interfaces can be translated to make your
improves the code and encourages more people to create
Drupal website accessible in one or more languages.
Localization Templating Syndication
additional modules, contribute patches, and write vital
documentation. The growing momentum is evidenced by
many new websites and projects committing to Drupal. For more features, visit drupal.org/features