General Features Of Drupal Development

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Drupal is considered the best system for managing content in your website. It is written in PHP language and requires a MySQL database. It can be easily used for building various types of web pages such as simple blogs and large online communities.

General features

Collaborative content creation
Drupal can allow for setting up a book for collaborative content creation. A book consists of a certain number of pages put together in an order. Like our physical books, the computer book also contains all the features such as chapters, sections, subsections and so on. The book can be used as a manual, a resource guide or for providing answers to FAQs.

Users can contribute content, write reviews and modify the pages. They can work singly or collectively.

Developing in Drupal
This automatically places links for moving to next or previous pages. It also enables to set up menu and move around in the book through a navigation block so that the users can see the menu before browsing through its pages.

You can add links to your other books through its menu page. The users can also generate printer ...
... friendly display of the pages in the books by clicking on the print links at the bottom of every book page.

Creating modules
Modules are plug-ins that build, extend or enhance the core functionality of Drupal development. Modules can be contributed by the website community. The modules may be based on numerous categories such as commerce, advertising, e-commerce, evaluation or rating, file management, editors or filters and so on.

Online Help
The Drupal development community provides lots of online help to Drupal users. You can find videos, slides, tutorials and how- to- articles. The guide pages include topics such as how to update the modules, themes and manage other projects.

Open source
The source code of Drupal is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Normally licenses for most software are restrictive in nature as they take away the users' freedom to share or modify it.

The GNU General Public License, on the other hand, provides you all the freedom to share and even change the software. You can distribute the copies of Drupal free of charge and or even charge a price if you so wish. You can change the software and use its pieces in any new software program.

Drupal development, therefore, provides for a robust customization environment for its users. You can personalize both its content and presentation based upon your individual preferences.

The license, in fact, forbids you to deny its use to others. You cannot ask anyone to surrender the rights of its use. To explain it further, you must give the recipients all the rights of its use that you enjoy.

You must ensure that they too can get the source code. This translates into the fact that there are no copyright restrictions for the use of this software.

Access and management settings for users
Drupal allows for role based permission system which means that the Drupal site developers and administrators do not have to laboriously set up permission formats for each user. The user module enables the users to register, log in or log out. They create their account so that the content they create can be associated with it.

Users can use their own names or handles. They can set up their 'my account page'. There is a provision for the use of cookies which do not contain personal information but act as tools to retrieve information stored on your server.

Creating polls
Drupal comes with a poll module that enables the users or administrators to create simple polls and display them on various pages. As a common poll practice, you ask a question, provide possible answer options and let your users cast their votes. Drupal can keep a tally of the votes polled. You can also specify how long the voting will continue.

Templating
Drupal theme development allows the users to control the look and feel of their site. You can create website templates from standard HTML and PHP coding. It means that you do not have to learn a proprietary templating language.

This article is written by a technical writer David Parker promoting drupal development and drupal 7. Logicaldesigndbs is a leading Mobile Application Development company in Boston offering custom web application to worldwide clients. For more log on to: http://www.logicaldesigndbs.com