"Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website." drupal.org

We're passionate about Drupal and its applications, which is why we're active contributors to the Drupal open source community, both as contributors to the codebase and as organizers/participants in educational events. You may also want to get some quick tips, notes and thoughts we call Drupal Drops.

So What is Drupal?

Drupal is an open source, extensible CMS written collaboratively in PHP. ...no really, what does that mean?

It means you can use its web-based interface to build almost any manner of site in about an hour. Okay, an hour is a bit optimistic for your first time at bat. Sure, there is some getting used to, but you can start building with the basic features in the span of a few hours even on your first time out. Take that Dreamweaver!

Because it's open source, Drupal rolls out new versions when the user community deems it appropriate. No deadline-driven, quota-crazy bugware bound for patching like some software giants we all know.

It's Free? How Good Could it Be?

Really good, actually. Drupal puts the "Dynamic" in Dynamic Content.

Drupal users include large entertainment companies like Warner Brothers Records, Sony/BMG, Ask a Ninja, CBC, and MTV Europe; major web media companies like Google, Novell, and Yahoo; news and magazine sites like Now Public, Playboy Germany, The Onion and The New York Observer; and web communities like Team Sugar or Spread Firefox. Finally, Harvard University and The United Nations provide other noteworthy examples of Drupal's strength and versatility.

Learn more about Drupal's applications in the real world with Drupal Case Studies and Success Stories.

Features:

• Standards-compliant XHTML and CSS support
• Cross platform
• Easily aggregate Dynamic Content
• Web interface, develop from anywhere
• RSS feeds for some or all of your pages? you got it. Just check a box.
• Dynamic Menus and Sitemaps built from your key terminology
• Blogs, individual or the multi-user variety
• Sophisticated Permissions control
• An unlimited variety of custom content types
• Myriad ways to view this content
• Support for rich media including, Video, Podcasts, Flickr photos, etc.
• Forums, FAQs, Glossaries, Search, and more...

Who is it Good For?:

• Individuals (no need to call your web developer to upload content.)
• Businesses (e-commerce features, press releases, business blogs)
• Not-for-profit (it's free!) or Non-Governmental Organizations
• Education, Research (capacity to serve thousands of users, group-author content)
• Clubs and Associations (calendars, community-driven moderation, events)
• News and Content Driven sites (RSS!)
• Political and other Causes (CivicSpace anyone?)

More Special Sauce:

• Organic Search Engine Optimization
• Fully Featured yet exceedingly extensible (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Flickr support and more)
• Many free Themes and Modules
• Massive user community for support

How You Can do the Drupal Too?

If you want to set it up yourself, you're free to do so: Download the latest version of Drupal straight from the source (excuse the pun). We offer a 30 day free trial of a fully featured Drupal site, through our Bryght Light product and the fine folks at OpenSourceCMS have another truly risk-free setup, if you want a quick test drive.

If you are serious setting up a CMS-based site you might want to contact Raincity Studios.

Any way you choose to go, it benefits Drupal in the end (cough, we do Drupal, cough). And you do want to be part of the Drupal Movement, right?