In learning and implementing Drupal concepts, it is better that there is a Drupal how to guide that serves as a guidance for the beginners. If you are a new Drupal user who is interested in learning and understanding Drupal CMS concepts and applications, then this blog is really intended for you. Just like what I have said, this blog will provide guidance for Drupal beginners and also encourage others to be interested in learning Drupal CMS. In this blog, I will first discuss the basic concept of content management system and its connection to Drupal CMS. This definition and concept is important for the beginners in order to understand the whole concept and function of Drupal CMS. Also, this serves as the basic and important introduction for the beginners in learning and developing Drupal CMS.

Content management system was developed in order to provide a collaborative website in the web. It is a software development and application that is specially designed to provide wide access, share, contribute, modify and mostly manage the website for the better use and application of the users. CMS was developed to provide better opportunities for business companies, organizations, institutions and other interested groups or individual who wants to develop a large and interactive website. Through the use of CMS, a website owner could manage, control, store, organize, modify and publish the website content, applications, security and the overall aspects of website. Usually, CMS are best used in media publishing companies, large group of business corporations and other organizations who handle the large functions and scope. Content management system provides features that enable the user to import and create all types of documents, assignment of user and management roles, organize content tracking and management, publish the website content and customization of user and website settings that provides ease of access and control for the users and viewers. This is the main function of content management system or simply called CMS software.

What is Drupal? Drupal is one of the open source or free content management system that is popularly used all over the world. Drupal is written in PHP programming language and uses database server that runs with PHP. Usually, the MySQL is the most used database server in Drupal. The database server serves as the data storage of all the website content information. Drupal is a content management system that is effectively used in developing, organizing and management of the whole aspects of the website. It is composed of set of modules which are called Drupal core. Drupal modules provides applications that enable to manage the users, website menus and features, and mostly the content management. Drupal modules and templates are created and contributed by the active Drupal group community from the different places of the world. They provide, share and modify the Drupal modules and templates for the benefit of every Drupal users and mostly for the advancement of Drupal content management system. Drupal CMS is best to use for all types of websites, from the individual sites up to the blog sites, education, government, media publishing, and mostly large business company websites. Drupal powerful features enable the website users to create, modify and publish an effective and powerful website in the web.

Using Drupal CMS will help every website to achieve their highest goals. This is also the reason that Drupal CMS continuously develops by its expert Drupal web developers and programmers. Knowing the basic concepts of CMS and Drupal CMS is necessary in order to understand its specific uses and benefits for the website. In my next blog, I will discuss again the Drupal components, installations, uses and advance development of Drupal CMS. Thus, start now to explore and understand Drupal CMS functions in order to achieve an effective and successful goals for your websites.