Drupal is CMS, created on the base of PHP, it uses a database as a data warehouse. Drupal is free software and it is developing thanks to enthusiasts' efforts all over the world. A Belgian, Dries Buytaert has started working on it in 2000, and he has been still supervising the project. The word itself is the distorted pronunciation of the Dutch word druppel ("drop") and was born as a result of an error.
In 2000 some students used the common modem for access to the Internet, and Dris created an internal site for users of this small local area network to intercommunicate. The program on which the site worked had no name until Dries had to register a domain name for the new site and as a result of a misprint, instead of dorp-org (dorp - the village, quite a good name for a small community) drop-org was registered. A lot of people became constant visitors of the site, the community, interested in web technologies development, grew bigger. As a result, the new site has imperceptibly transformed from an experiment into the web programming project.
In 2001 Dries published drop.org system under the name "Drupal". That time development and programmers' intercommunication moved to the site drupal.org which has gained and up to this day has the status of the official site. Hundreds people were involved in the developing process since the time the site was created. Official developers now are a score of people, but also many people send the units which are possible to include in a system code. Still system functionality is extending with the help of units of distant developers which embody in them the necessary functional.
The Drupal architecture gives an easy possibility to use it for construction of all kinds of sites: from blogs and forums to informational archives and news sites. The major functionality part is provided with the connected units accessing to a common Drupal API. The standard set of units includes many functions such as RSS, a forum, files uploading, a blog, voting, search and many other possibilities. A large quantity of the additional units considerably expanding base functions, is possible to find on an official site and, actually, in the Internet.
Alesia Arefjeva is an author of web design tutorials, photoshop tutorials and other articles
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