Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) being used by hundreds of thousands of organizations and individuals to build engaging, content-rich websites. Building a website in Drupal is a matter of combining together various "building blocks," in order to customize your website’s functionality to your precise needs. Once built, a Drupal website can be maintained with online forms, and without having to change code manually. Drupal is free to use; it has an enormous library of constantly evolving tools that you can use to make your website shine.

Drupal is also a content management framework (CMF). In addition to providing site building tools for webmasters, it offers ways for programmers and developers to customize Drupal using plug-in modules. Almost every aspect of Drupal’s behavior can be customized using these modules.

Over the last couple of years, the popularity of Drupal has exploded, to the point where some pretty big names have taken notice. Media companies such as MTV UK, Lifetime, and Sony BMG Records are using Drupal as a means of building loyal communities around their products. Print publishers such as the New York Observer, The Onion, Popular Science magazine, and Fast Company magazine use Drupal to provide interactive online content to their readers.

Drupal Features Implemented by Ameex

Built-in-editor

Our WYSIWYG editor is easy to use tool (WYSIWYG = “What You See Is What You Get”). If you can use Word or WordPerfect, you can use the editor. There is no need for additional graphic interfaces such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage.

Add pages

Add a virtually unlimited amount of inside pages and sub pages. The CMS allows you to edit, delete and add pages to your web site anytime.

Templated pages

The CMS allows for an organization’s unique custom look and feel without compromising on flexibility and features. You can add as many templates as you like to deal with as many page formats as you need. You have the control to edit, delete and add these templates with ease.

Web based administration

You get web-based administration that only requires a web browser and no other special software.

Change your design and “Look & Feel” in a snap!

The CMS makes it very easy to change the look & feel of your web site down the road. You can even manage other web sites, with each new web site having a unique look & feel of its own using the powerful CMS that is the programming backbone of your new web site.

Flexible module system

Modules are plug-ins that can modify and add features to a Drupal site. For almost any functional need, chances are good that either an existing module fits the need exactly or can be combined with other modules to fit the need, or that whatever existing code there is can get you a good chunk of the way there.

Customizable theming system

All output in Drupal is fully customizable, so you can bend the look and feel of your site to your will (or, more precisely, to your designer’s will).

Extensible content creation

You can define new types of content (blog, event, word of the day) on the fly. Contributed modules can take this one step further and allow administrators to create custom fields within your newly created content types.

Innate search engine optimization

Drupal offers out-of-the-box support for human-readable system URLs, and all of Drupal’s output is standards-compliant; both of these features make for searchengine friendly websites.

Role-based access permissions

Custom roles and a plethora of permissions allow for fine-grained control over who can access what within the system. And existing modules can take this level of access control even further—down to the individual user level.

Social publishing and collaboration tools

Drupal has built-in support for tools such as group blogging, comments, forums, and customized user profiles. The addition of almost any other feature you can imagine—for instance, ratings, user groups, or moderation tools—is only a download away.

Social publishing and collaboration tools

Other features

• Easily manage and publish content
• Consistent look and feel throughout the site
• Cut/paste text from Microsoft word
• Add downloadable documents, photo and graphics
• Easy creation of menu items and links
• Streaming videos
• Preview option
• Multi language compatible editor
• Search / indexing of site content
• Mobile device support