Drupal Content Management Features

Polls – The admin and users will be able to create polls with the help of poll module embedded within Drupal which is an easy feature used to setup a poll, set the base vote counts and the number of votes on each topic including the duration of the poll. Drupal will automatically tally the number of votes and the module will also allow users to see results, post polls based on the administrative privileges enabled.

Templating – Allowing you to customize and have control over the look of the Drupal site, the templating option distinguishes between presentation and the content. For easy access, the templates are made from standard HTML and PHP coding which saves your time spent in the learning curve to get the hang of a proprietary templating language.

Threaded Comments – Adding to the list of features is the threaded comment model offered by Drupal, a hierarchical module which groups up the comments posted on different blogs, pages, content into one similar to that of a newsgroup or forum. The powerful threaded comments enable users to publish comment, notified with updates and allow admin to segregate them.

Version Control –Drupal’s Version Control feature will help you keep track of your website by enabling a detailed page regarding the content updates, modifications done along with the date and time. It also has the feature to let you know who updated the content, who edited it and what changes they made with date and time. Version control has a reversal option by keeping track of the changes through a comment log so that you can roll back the content to an earlier version.

Drupal General Features

Collaborative Book – Coming latest in the list is the ‘Collaborative Book’ feature that enables to create a ‘book’ in the hierarchical which will contain titles, content, sub sections facilitating authorized users to create, write or edit the content. It is useful when it comes to creating guidelines, Frequently Asked Questions and information manuals.

Friendly URLs – The new Drupal program is improvised with the Apache’s mod_rewrite enabling the modification of URLs which is user friendly and optimized at its level best for search engines.

Modules – The contributed modules which are compatible with the latest Drupal 6 are plug-in that extends, build or enhance the Drupal core functionality.

Online Help – Rendering the best support to help you regarding queries, the reliable online help system built into the core text help will be available at the site created for you and works efficient despite the shortcomings found in support offered for all open source projects.

Open Source – Under the terms of GNU General Public License 2 (GPL), source code of Drupal is distributed for free which is open to be customized or extended as required unlike those of proprietary blogging or content management systems.

Personalization – With ultimate control to personalize based on individual user requirements, Drupal is embedded with a robust personalization environment enabling users to change both the content and presentation accordingly.

Role Based Permission System – Authoring the permission to operate, modify or change Drupal settings can now be done without the tedious process of assigning it individually. Administrators can setup permission based on assigned roles and group them into one for easy access.

Searching – Make better use of the search module which helps you in finding all the contents of Drupal which are completely indexed and searchable whenever required.