Drupal is one of the fastest growing web site building tools on the internet today.

Drupal allows users to build web sites that span the spectrum of the imagination. Drupal can help you to build a terrific looking basic "brochure" type of web site but Drupal also has tons of tools (called moduels) to customize every aspect of your web site to your exact specifics.

Building specific functionality into your web site - a metaphor.
The way that Drupal sums up their web site building capabilities is that they ask you to imagine you had a toy truck and a toy boat. Now imagine that you wanted a toy with truck like capabilities as well as the capabilities of a boat. With your two toys you are relegated to using themas they are.

Now imagine that someone has given you all of the parts to the two toys with thousands of instructions on how you can use them together. Now you have the capability of creating a toy (think website) that can have any variable of capabilities that both the toy truck and the toy boat posses.

This is really at the heart of Drupal's greatness is that it allows users to transform any section of their web site into a specific functionality which allows you to create feature rich web site.

There are other web site builder programs available like Joomla and Wordpress which are both also very popular and which can also build terrific web sites however none of the other web site builders allows their users the same level of customization as Drupal does.

To learn more about understanding Drupal and to see if Drupal is right for you please visit Understanding Drupal

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