Drupal Content Management system « The Venture Skills Blog

Drupal Content Management system

December 1, 2006 — Tim Nash

Drupal is an open source content management system and framework based around the traditional LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) though Drupal can be used on a range of systems that run PHP and a relational database even Windows!

But what is a content management system?

A content management system is a program that stores information and aids collaboration in a user friendly means, today CMS is used to describe systems that users do not touch the code on a web site, but edit the site through a series of forms.

Why Drupal?

Here at Venture Skills we like Drupal actually we like it a lot, its fast scalable and very powerful, it allows us full control to change the template, add modules etc. While most CMS have these traits Drupal probably has the balance between functionality and control.

If your interested in Drupal visit drupal.org or you could check out our post on some of the best modules for Drupal 5.0 and please don’t take our word for it try IBM Drupal tutorials as well.

Finally we have our own tutorial series on drupal
How to build a site like Digg with no programming parts 1,2,3
CCK & Views the ultimate combination part 1

Want to create a site like Digg with no programming? « The Venture Skills Blog Says:
December 5, 2006 at 4:28 pm

[...] How to create a site like Digg with no programming? We are going to go step by step how you can develop such a site using Drupal CMS which is available from drupal.org if your unfamiliar with Drupal we have an overview here. [...]

Prashanth Says:
July 5, 2007 at 10:20 am

Hi,
Firstly, thank you for giving us a wonderful site.
I am doing a project using drupal. Can you please answer the below questions if not taking too much of your time. I will want to create new content type, does using cck slow down drupal? is it better to hardcode the content type instead? what are the advantages and disadvantages of using cck?

thank you