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Book - Our unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a "book" and then
authorize other individuals to contribute content.
Friendly URLs - Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are
both user and search engine friendly.
Modules - The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality
that extend Drupal core.
Online help - Like many Open Source projects, we can't say that our online help is
perfect but have built a robust online help system built into the core help text.
Available to you on your own site.
Open source - The source code of Drupal is freely available under the terms of the GNU
General Public License 2 (GPL). Unlike proprietary blogging or content management systems,
Drupal's feature set is fully available to extend or customize as needed.
Personalization - A robust personalization environment is at the core of Drupal. Both
the content and the presentation can be individualized based on user-defined preferences.
Role based permission system - Drupal administrators don't have to tediously setup
permissions for each user. Instead, they assign permissions to roles and then group like
users into a role group.
Searching - All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all times if you
take advantage of the built in search module.
User management
User authentication - Users can register and authenticate locally or using an external
authentication source like Jabber, Blogger, LiveJournal or another Drupal website. For use
on an intranet, Drupal can integrate with an LDAP server.
Content management
Polls - Drupal comes with a poll module which enables admins and/or users to create polls
and show them on various pages.
Templating - Drupal's theme system separates content from presentation allowing you to
control the look and feel of your Drupal site. Templates are created from standard HTML
and PHP coding meaning that you don't have to learn a proprietary templating language.
Threaded comments - Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment model for enabling
discussion on published content. Comments are hierarchical as in a newsgroup or forum.
Version control - Drupal's version control system tracks the details of content updates
including who changed it, what was changed, the date and time of changes made to your
content and more. Version control features provide an option to keep a comment log and
enables you to roll-back content to an earlier version.
Blogging
Blogger API support - The Blogger API allows your Drupal site to be updated by many
different tools. This includes non-web browser based tools that provide a richer editing
environment.
Content syndication - Drupal exports your site's content in RDF/RSS format for others
to gather. This lets anyone with a News Aggregator browse your Drupal sites feeds.
News aggregator - Drupal has a powerful built-in News Aggregator for reading and
blogging news from other sites. The News Aggregator caches articles to your MySQL database
and its caching time is user configurable.
Permalinks - All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or "perma
link" associated with it so people can link to it freely without fear of broken
links.
Platform
Multi-language - Drupal is designed to meet the requirements of an international
audience and provides a full framework to create a multi-lingual website, blog, content
management system or community application. All text can be translated using a graphical
user interface, by importing existing translations, or by integrating with other
translation tools such as the GNU gettext.
Administration and analysis
Analysis, Tracking and Statistics - Drupal can print browser-based reports with
information about referrals, content popularity and how visitors navigate your site.
Logging and Reporting - All important activities and system events are captured in an
event log to be reviewed by an administrator at a later time.
Web based administration - Drupal can be administered entirely using a web browser,
making it possible to access it from around the world and requires no additional software
to be installed on your computer.
Community features
Discussion forums - Full discussion forum features are built into Drupal to create
lively, dynamic community sites.
Performance and scalability
Caching - The caching mechanism eliminates database queries increasing performance and
reducing the server's load. Not only can the caching be tuned in real time, while your
site is under load, but it has been successfully tested under a "slashdotting"
and performed extremely well.
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