Clicking Through Drupal 7's Features
When looking for examples of enterprise applications where open source products have competed effectively against expensive and complex commercial products, a good place to start is content management. Open source content management systems (CMS) have become extremely popular choices for running very large, complex, and busy Web sites. Open source CMS Drupal has made its name on that basis, by managing some very popular Web sites, including many news sites and WhiteHouse.gov. However, in areas s
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The Drupal open source content management system (CMS), which is licensed under the GNU general public license (GPL), provides very high-level functionality for creating and managing large Web sites and corporate portals. The product features very good capabilities for handling large and complex repositories of content and can be highly customized to meet a wide variety of needs. Drupal can run on most systems that can run PHP, including Linux and Windows systems. With Drupal 7, the CMS adds a new user interface designed to cut down on the complexity of most common management tasks within the CMS. Drupal 7 has also improved the ability to add modules and keep them up-to-date, as well as improved tools for adding and changing themes to adjust the look and feel of Web sites.
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The new Drupal 7 administration interface makes use of light boxes to display many management tasks, allowing admins to work on content without launching entirely new pages in the interface.
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A new menu bar that runs across the top of the administration interface in Drupal 7 provides quick and easy access to most common management tasks.
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With the Dashboard feature of Drupal 7, administrators can build a customized view into their site and content management system.
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As in standard browser shortcut bars, the new shortcut feature in Drupal 7 makes it possible to build one-click access to common tasks and pages within the content management system (CMS).
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While it is possible to add WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") functionality through extensions, Drupal 7 does not include a built-in WYSIWYG editor for creating web content.
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Drupal 7 now does a much better job at managing add-on modules for the content management system (CMS), easing both installing and updating modules.
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Changing the look and feel of a Web site through the use of pre-configured themes is much easier in Drupal 7.
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Changing the look and feel of a Web site through the use of pre-configured themes is much easier in Drupal 7.
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The Drupal open source content management system (CMS), which is licensed under the GNU general public license (GPL), provides very high-level functionality for creating and managing large Web sites and corporate portals. The product features very good capabilities for handling large and complex repositories of content and can be highly customized to meet a wide variety of needs. Drupal can run on most systems that can run PHP, including Linux and Windows systems. With Drupal 7, the CMS adds a new user interface designed to cut down on the complexity of most common management tasks within the CMS. Drupal 7 has also improved the ability to add modules and keep them up-to-date, as well as improved tools for adding and changing themes to adjust the look and feel of Web sites.
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