What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) with a large, supportive community. Drupal CMS is an enterprise class CMS. CMS is a software package that provides tools for authoring, publishing and managing content on a website. Drupal is a robust content management platform. Functionality is bundled in "modules" which you can use to alter and extend your out-of-the-box Drupal site. Themes control the look-and-feel, and like modules, are used to customize your Drupal site. Drupal helps you create dynamic, content-driven websites. The Drupal slogan is "Come for the code, stay for the community." You can download the software for free and do what you like with it. There are also tens of thousands of people around the world who come together to improve the code, write documentation, run events, and support each other. To gain the full benefits of using Drupal, you should be sure to also understand what the community offers.