Microsoft has become the biggest channel to promote Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management System (CMS) platform for constructing dynamic Web sites that provide a variety of features and services, including user management (users administration), publishing workflows (Publishing Workflow), discussions, news aggregation ( News Aggregation, metadata (Metadata) operations, and XML publishing for content sharing. It combines powerful and freely configurable features to support Web projects ranging from personal blogs (Personal Weblog) to large community-driven (community-driven) sites.

Drupal based on the PHP scripting language, recommended the use of MySQL database, so to run Drupal must first install the PHP support program, recommended Apache + MySQL + PHP installation and configuration environment. A lamp installation Kit or a recommended installation Wamp kit under the Windows system is recommended for Linux systems.

Drupal for the domestic webmaster is still relatively unfamiliar, the main domestic use of Dede, Phpcms, but in foreign countries, Drupal is the same as Joomla's PHP cms system. If you want to understand that Drupal can be drupal.org and the domestic Drupal community drupalchina.org.

Drupal's system is similar to build a building blocks platform, Drupal itself only provides a very abstract platform, many specific functions are implemented by modular, such as the views module to achieve Drupal flexible data display, and CCK module to achieve a flexible data structure, In addition to these core modules, there are some extension modules, such as some of the modules to achieve the shopping cart function, these modules can be flexibly pieced together to achieve a variety of applications, such as E-commerce stations, news portals and so on.

There are many foreign mainstream web sites are implemented with Drupal, including an Obama campaign site, can be seen in the acceptance of Drupal in foreign countries, Drupal free theme is more, but for the webmaster, it is best to learn a little about the production of themes and templates knowledge.

Drupal relative, Getting started a little more difficult, unlike the domestic CMS as long as the configuration can be, to become a Drupal master, but also need to have a certain development experience, more proficient in PHP.

Microsoft has become the biggest channel to promote Drupal, and I believe Drupal will grow better.