Drupal is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP that allows users with little technical knowledge to build and manage websites. It is used by over 1% of websites worldwide and by large sites such as WhiteHouse.gov. Drupal provides tools for adding, modifying, organizing and retrieving content with flexibility through its modular architecture and thousands of free themes and modules available.

3. How good it is, who uses it, why use it?

4. How to really start clicking and building your Drupal website.

6. Simple: Lets users mange content – store, archive, retrieve and show content in some logical manner.

8. Provides website authoring and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages.

9. Helps to create and manage the site's content with relative ease.

10. Usually has a template/presentation layer.

12. It allows non technical users to build and use a website with little or no training.

13. It is a web application that manages various forms of content from text, images to video.

14. Also helps to manage users and other things like comments.

16. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to larger corporate and political sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk.

17. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

18. Drupal Usage Stats (20 Oct 11)

20. It is a system that lets you create content with just clicks and not coding a website.

21. A framework to develop powerful and robust web applications.

22. The content you created can be retrieved and shown in a way you desire.

23. Built on PHP and primarily runs on MYSQL.

25. The more features you want the more modules you add.

26. You want to make your website look different choose a theme (thousands available for free)

27. Development can be generally segregated into developer and designer tracks.

29. Derived from “Druppel,” the Dutch word for “Drop” which also means village in Dutch.

30. Drop.org to now http://drupal.org

32. Modular

33. Robust

34. Scalable

35. Secure

36. Feature rich (5800 Free modules)

37. Themable (1000+ Themes)

38. Huge community to support

39. Etc etc

54. Drupal 6 Branch – Drupal 6.22 (released 25 May 2011)

55. Drupal 7 Branch – Drupal 7.8(released 31 Aug 2011).

56. Drupal 8 Branch – May be in the offering

58. For a company website

59. For a robust application - ConnectR

60. Etc etc

61. Drupal Architecture

62. Drupal Modular Architecture

64. Content Type: general term for a node.

65. Comments: Comments are what allow people to add comments to any node that has been created.

67. Menu: A region that contains links to other content/nodes in Drupal. Like primary, secondary, navigation or any custom made.

68. Weight : Defines the priority of display (obsolete now).

69. Module: A code block that activates a new function in the Drupal Website. ( www.drupalmodules.com )

70. Theme: A package when installed and changed changes the overall look and feel of the Drupal website. (test themes at: http://themegarden.org/drupal6/ )

72. Google for Drupal or search for Drupal in youtube.

73. Have fun Drupalling.

75. Acquia stack

76. On XAMPP

77. Any preferred or running platform

79. Install included and contributed modules (From GUI and drush)

80. Install and change contributed themes (From GUI and drush)