Drupal Development

Features

Drupal has many built-in features:

• Browser-Based Interfaces: Drupal provides browser-based admin interfaces that can be used
  to manage a Web site as well as publish and organize page content.
• Themes: A library of template themes enables layouts customized to client preferences.
• Extensions: A wide variety of extensions are available that can be integrated with the
  basic Drupal setup in order to provide enhanced and advanced functions such as discussion forums, blogs,
  shopping carts, podcasting, photo galleries, etc.
• Multiple sites: The default Drupal installation enables multiple sites to be run from a
  single installation.
• Search Engine-Friendly URLs: Drupal enables the generation of URLs encouraging to search
  engines.
• Taxonomy: The taxonomy module available in Drupal enables Web site content to be easily
  categorized and organized in a tree structure making content search easier.
• Discussion Forum: Discussion forum features are built into Drupal. The discussion forum
  module enables users to enter comments and carry on a discussion with other users.
• Versioning: Drupal maintains multiple versions of each content item, enabling
  administrators to track content modifications. Versioning also helps in restoring content of a previous
  version.
• News Aggregator: Drupal provides a built in news aggregator that can be used to gather
  news/articles from other sites such as blogs.
• Polls: Opinion polls on the Web sites can be customized, such as specific user groups only
  allowed to vote, or multiple answer options displayed, etc.
• Multi-lingual: Drupal provides support for multiple languages, so multilingual Web sites
  can be easily created.
• Reporting: The built-in reporting module provides detailed reports on site performance,
  event logs, etc.
• User Profile: Drupal enables registered users of a Web site to create and share their
  profiles with others.
• Content Linking: Multiple content items and articles can be linked to form an online book.
  This feature can also be used to create FAQs, manuals etc.
• Page Caching: Caching helps in improving page generation time and reducing the load on the
  Web server.
• Contact Module: Through the contact module available in Drupal users can send messages to
  each other through the Web site.
• Directory Sites: Web sites developed using Drupal can connect to other directory-listing
  Web sites.