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Drupal is suitable for just about any purpose of website and portal. It has superb eCommerce system. It can be used as Online Newspaper, E Magazine, Digital Publications. Content management system vary in features and price. A simple one will store your articles, news bulletins, and let you edit or delete them at a later stage. A more complex system will manage your entire site, from forums to newsfeeds to e-mails. A further advantage of such a system is that no knowledge of programming is required to add or edit the articles on your intranet, so staff with limited computing knowledge can feel at ease.

Drupal is an open-source content management system written in the programming language PHP. It is a starting point for managing a site or intranet, and is highly flexible in terms of functionality.

Drupal is based on “modules” — sets of features that can be added or removed at will, depending on what you need. To take advantage of the system, you really need to set these up. One such module provides access to a forum system so your users can communicate. Setting this up isn’t too hard, but would be easier if only they had used more straightforward names for parts of the system. It took a few minutes to realize, for instance, that after you’ve added a vocabulary to the taxonomy section, you have to then add a term to create a discussion forum. If you don’t know your taxonomy from your term (which is perfectly excusable), then reading the online documentation is a must.

This is by no means the easiest content management administration system to understand at first glance, although it does have a number of advanced features. If you’re just moving over from the paper world to building an intranet, then it will take time to get used to vocabularies, containers, nodes, taxonomy configuration, and a number of other functions.

Users points of view:

Drupal is a much stronger CMS, but it’s got a steeper learning curve.

Joomla is not as strong, but it’s a lot easier to use straight out of the box.

Joomla is easy to install and manage, but it’s not extendable, flexible, scalable, robust, and the code is a mess.

Drupal is sort of the opposite of that. One big advantage that Joomla has, is a great community that can be very helpful.

Drupal is more powerful than the basic Joomla but Joomla is easier to use and more extensible Also Drupal has more built-In Options but all of those can be achieved with Joomla too…

News: The most basic function of the system. You or another member of your staff can easily add content to appear on your intranet site, without needing programming knowledge. Stories can also be categorized or deleted.

Receiving Syndicated Content: There’s a module available for Drupal to receive data from other sites (in RSS format, which is based on XML). This may be useful if you want to display the latest finance news, world headlines, etc. You can also export your own RSS files, so that your organization’s news or announcements could be viewed on a Web site/extranet.

Performance: Pages are generated very quickly, and a useful de-bug feature lets you see just how long each page on the intranet takes to load. I haven’t experienced anything taking more than half a second. There’s also a caching system, which reduces the load on the server. Rarely, however, would this make a lot of difference on an intranet, unless it’s experiencing very high traffic indeed.

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