Why use Drupal for a CMS website?

I've chosen the Drupal, www.drupal.org, content management system because I believe it to be superior to most other CMSs. It is highly regarded as one of the best website frameworks available and is rapidly gaining adoption all over the globe.

Drupal shares with many CMSs some conventional advantages of using a CMS to support a website. (These are outlined on the page 'The advantages of using a CMS'). But there are even greater advantages of choosing Drupal as the CMS to power your website, as follows:

Drupal's flexibility

A Drupal CMS will be capable of virtually any requirement you have of your website in the future. It is inherently more flexible than virtually any other CMS. A Drupal CMS will future-proof your business’s presence on the internet.

Need an ecommerce system added to your website? A forum? A blog? The ability to post comments to pages and have these comments placed in a moderation queue before allowing them to be published? Need to delegate specific tasks to specific people so that only those tasks (and none others) can be accomplished in a completely secure fashion? Need to send out newsletters that feature new content on your website? Drupal will enable you to accomplish all of these things – and a ton more.

Drupal's handling of bilingual/multilingual pages

The pages of your website can be configured for different languages. You can designate any page to belong to a language pair (or trio, etc.), then add a version of that page in a different language. Links to these pages will automatically be added to the menu that serves each language. Each page will then display a flag icon for each other language in it is available. These flags act as links to those pages. There's some neat logic here; tapping into it as you publish new pages on your website is just so simple.

Drupal and 'intelligent web publishing'

Plenty of websites publish 'structured data' - not just in the form of products. A project list, testimonials, staff lists and archives are obvious examples.

What a Drupal CMS can also do is provide simplified ways in which this information can be added to your website and routed through to specific locations within the site, with all links and cross-references properly maintained. It requires your website to be equipped with the means to receive information of a specified type, along with the logic to process it. Once set up (with Drupal’s powerful ‘content construction kit’), you merely complete a form!

How does Drupal compare to other CMSs

If you wish to look into the subject of CMSs in greater detail, then check out www.cmsmatch.com. It’s the most informative site I know of on the subject, comparing different CMSs against a broad range of criteria. Oh, and it’s also built using Drupal!

Who else uses Drupal?

Here are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of websites that use the Drupal content management platform: