Drupal is an open source content management platform. It is licensed under the GPL. The best part about it is that it comes loaded with super powerful features. It can easily support a huge and varied variety of websites that range from personal blogs, corporate brochures and large community.

Drupal can also be referred to as a web-based content management system that stores text, pointers and many other types of content in a database. These are thereafter dynamically composed, retrieved and presented to a user in response to a request sent through a web browser.

Here are the general features of Drupal:

Colaborative book:
This allows you to set up a book and thereafter allows others to contribute their content.
User friendly URLs:
The best part about the Drupal is that it utilizes Apache’s mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs. These customizable URLs are user as well as search engine friendly.
Modules:
The Drupal community has come up with several modules that provide functionality and in turn extend Drupal core.
Online help:
The online help of Drupal is powerful and readily available to the users on their site.
Personalization:
The biggest advantage of the Drupal community is it’s dynamic personalization environment. It is easy to individualize both the content and presentation according to the preference of the user.
Searching:
All the content available in Drupal is fully searchable and indexed 24×7.
User authentication:
It is impossible for the user to register and then authenticate locally via using an external authentication source such as Blogger, LiveJournal or any other Drupal website.

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