What is Drupal? Drupal is a free, open-source web development platform for online content and user communities. Drupal powers some of the busiest sites on the web, and can be adapted to virtually any visual design. Drupal runs over a million sites, including WhiteHouse.gov, World Economic Forum, Stanford University, and Examiner.com. Drupal is open Drupal was created over ten years ago and released as open-source software under the GNU Public License. That means it’s completely free to download, use, and modify: There are no purchase, license, or maintenance fees.
Drupal is web development Drupal’s default installation is a database-backed web platform with file maintenance tools and a high level of security. Drupal is social Drupal is a multi-user system, letting site visitors log in (as “authenticated” users) or browse the site without doing so (as “anonymous” users). Drupal is content Drupal both hosts and promotes your content.
Drupal is scalable Drupal is design Drupal is everywhere Drupal is secure. Recorded Webinars. TV. SubHub, Phase 2 Develop New Drupal Open App Standard. Two of the most well-known Drupal development firms, SubHub and Phase 2 Technology, have joined forces to develop a new open standard for developing apps for the web content management provider. The goal: to make it easier to build, deploy and use Drupal apps. Drupal Open App Standard Initiative If you want to ensure your Drupal applications can inter-operate with other Drupal apps, then this initiative should be of interest to you. The standard is designed to support the development of applications that can be deploy-able across a number of Drupal marketplaces. Our goal is to make trying out, adding, or removing Drupal functionality simple for site users,” said Jeff Walpole, CEO of Phase2. Both SubHub and Phase 2, who both build a number of apps for Drupal, view the apps markets are critical to the success of the open source platform.
Open App Standard Supported by Acquia Acquia completely supports the Open App Standard Initiative. Drupal News & Articles. San Francisco-based Pantheon expanded the popular web development platform it created for Drupal to WordPress installs this month. The company's technology, based on a container-based architecture, helps professional developers and designers build and maintain websites and applications.
It offers an array of tools like version control, dev/test environments, team management, backups and workflow. (Click image to enlarge.) Pantheon CEO and co-founder Zack Rosen said the three-year old company initially focused on Drupal because its development team included a number of former Drupal consultants. But he noted that WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system (CMS), powering over 76 million websites (19% of the web). "Owing to its simplicity, WordPress has become the de facto Internet publishing tool for businesses with straightforward content management and design requirements," he wrote in a blog post.
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