Drupal – An Overview

Drupal is a free software package that provides individuals and groups a website where they can easily publish and manage their own content. It is used by hundreds of thousands of users around the world, and is deployed by global big-hitters such as NASA, the BBC, 20th Century Fox, and a host of major recording artists from Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne. Even the United Nations employs Drupal to showcase some of their campaigns. It has won the Packt Publishing Overall Open Source CMS Award two years running (2007 and 2008) and is gaining an ever-growing developer community.

DogHouse Media has chosen to offer Drupal as their flagship CMS product, because of its balance between ease of use for non-technical users and flexible development environment for our techies. We have extensive development experience with Drupal, and plan on continuing our dedication to it for years to come.

A content management system like Drupal is an invaluable tool when establishing the basic structure of a website and in maintaining and expanding its operations from there. The flexibility and scalability that Drupal offers means that it is an ideal platform on which to create practical applications that can be customised to meet specific user demands, and subsequently altered to reflect the website's evolving needs and aims.

Every day thousands of individuals download the Drupal framework for their own personal projects and tailor it to create unique blogs, forums, social networking sites, ecommerce applications and corporate websites. In the 2008 financial year, Drupal was downloaded over 1.4 million times, which translates to 125% growth on the previous year. As it continues to increase in popularity and reach, its developer community become more connected and finely-tuned as they work on improving and expanding its applications.