Drupal is the #1 open source enterprise content management system according to usage statistics. It powers over 150 US government websites including WhiteHouse.gov and is used by over 810,000 people worldwide. Drupal provides a flexible platform for building, managing, and displaying content through thousands of available modules, themes, and developers contributing to its growth and customizability.
Building a semantic enterprise content management system v2
Why big sites run Drupal
1. Why big sites
go Drupal ?
CMS in Top 10K Sites
Drupal Powers US Gov Sites
#1 Enterprise CMS Open
Source Solution
Resources to learn Drupal
2. CMS Distribution in Top 10K Sites
Builtwith.com trend calculated on April 2012
“ Drupal is the
#1 business CMS
solution in the
open source
market. “
3. Drupal powers 150 US GOV sites
To 2012 Apr, 34 state and territory agencies use Drupal
WhiteHouse.gov went Drupal in 2009
4. 810,041 people in 228 countries
speaking 181 languages power Drupal
“ Drupal is used
as blog, forum,
community ”
To 2012 April
15,776 addons
1,368 themes
406 distributions
17,491 developers
6. Build Content
Drupal CCK builds content
“ CCK let you add
new fields chosen
from a variety of
field types. You can
customize your data
to conform to your
business needs,
rather than changing
your needs. ”
7. List Content
Drupal views changed my life
“ View allows you to
massage the format in
which the data is
displayed without a
single line of code. ”
Thanks to Earl Miles who is
named one of 2008 Open
Source CMS Most Valued
People by Packt Publishing.
8. Input Content
Drupal made easy in designing
surveys and gather information
“ A common way to
prompt users for
information is to put a
form on a page.
Drupal made this easy
task so that
information becomes
available quicker than
before. ”
9. Content Monitor
Drupal dashboard designed for
policy and decision maker
“The purpose of the IT Dashboard is to provide
information on the effectiveness of programs and to
support decisions regarding the investment and
management of resources. ”
10. Plot Content
Charts in Drupal
Graphical representation
of CCK data through
views
11. Content export
Export and send report
Export view data and
send as email attachment
12. Drupal modules are like Apple’s
iTune music downloads
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module
Serves 90% wh
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13. Drupal runs fast & scales well
Alternative PHP Cache
Optimization for MySQL
Optimization for PHP 5
Squid and Varnish
reverse proxy caching
14. Are you ready for most
cost-effective CMS solution ?
16. How does Drupal themes website ?
Header
Annotation
Css tag
HTML element Main
ex. #page
Variable
PHP variable output content
ex. Breadcrumb
Page content
Region
Container of others
ex. Highlight
navigation
Feature
Toggle variable On & Off
ex. Search box Sidebar #1
Sidebar #2
Basically each item can be
either PHP variable, region
variable or HTML layout.
Footer