Drupal is an open source platform for managing content on the web (Content Management System). This platform helps individual users up to large companies to manage and organize large quantities and varieties of content on a website, quickly and easily.

Drupal is supported by a community of thousands of companies and organizations, which contribute to the spread of this software all over the world. Drupal has many native features (core modules) for example to create blogs, forums, organize articles and documents and manage an unlimited number of archives with freely definable contents.

Why Drupal?

It is a solution adopted all over the world by an ever increasing number of communities, associations, government bodies and large industries. It is robust, flexible, scalable and extensively customizable. It is free software and is based on libraries and open source software, being able to work for example on a modern LAMP architecture (Linux - Apache - MySQL / MariaDB - PHP).

Modules and extensions

Drupal is a modular and extremely flexible platform. There are more than 300 modules to extend its functionality. If you want to get an idea of ​​the modules you can use, visit this link. You will find solutions that can satisfy any type of need.

Distributions

In addition to specific modules with which it is possible to expand the system, it is possible to install real "distributions", that is Drupal versions specially pre-configured and designed for specific needs or areas of use. For example, OpenChurch is a distribution intended to run a parish; Sportsleague is instead a distribution intended for a site that deals with sports.

Graphic Themes

Drupal allows total independence between content and graphics. There are hundreds of themes, created by web agencies and professional graphic designers, that can be installed to change and renew the graphics of a site with a click. It is possible to create sites that comply with the accessibility specifications and the most modern web standards, able to dynamically adapt to the various types of users' devices (smartphones, tablets, desktop PCs, etc.).

Access Management and Workflows

Drupal offers a granular management of Users, Roles and Permissions, combined with a flexible management of Work Flows, which allows to optimize the processes of insertion, publication and modification of contents.

Development and Assistance

Drupal is maintained by a large community of programmers and IT professionals. It is a platform used as a design / programming tool used by many companies working in the ITC and providing professional services related to it such as consultancy, specialized hosting, assistance, module development and customized graphic themes. Thanks to this large community, an organization that invests in a Drupal solution it will never be linked to a specific supplier can be sure that the investment made will also be supported in the future by a large community of developers that will prevent it from becoming obsolete

Multilanguage support

Drupal is translated into more than one hundred languages ​​and is able to create multilingual and multiregional sites and portals. Drupal's multilingual support is very sophisticated and flexible: it is possible to translate all the elements of the pages up to the single fields associated with the contents. It is even possible to translate entire taxonomies of terms. To search if there is a specific translation you can click here.