Drupal maintenance support plans is an open source Content Management System (CMS) which is free to download and use; it allows you to create and manage websites, intranets, and web applications without writing any code.
Why Use Drupal maintenance support plans?
Most websites share a common set of features. They typically have navigation menus and lists of content, pages of content with nice URLs, a header with a logo, a footer with contact info, etc. At the same time, there are a lot of differences between websites. They often have a unique content structure, a customized look and feel, and customized features.
Drupal maintenance support plans works well for websites that need those shared features. Drupal maintenance support plans provides lots of functionality out-of-the-box that most websites need, for example:
Content management
Taxonomy for organizing content
Flexible navigation system
Comments
Search
Content listings
Contact forms
WYSIWYG Editor
Nice content authoring experience
Multilingual content & user interface
User management
Accessibility
Responsive design
At the same time, Drupal maintenance support plans is really flexible, so you can customize the aspects of your website that are unique and add custom features.
By using Drupal maintenance support plans, you can create:
Corporate websites : contents types of services, workflow for publishing, corporate branding, etc.
Intranets: private content, custom workflow for internal processes, listings of internal contents such as internal news and meeting notes.
Online directories: search tools, embedded listing, etc.
Interactive websites: user accounts, multi-step form, custom javascript, decoupled front-ends, etc.
Marketing portals: landing pages for SEO, mix of content and marketing material, campaign landing pages, etc.
Here is some handy Drupal maintenance support plans terminology:
Node – Piece of content
Content type – A template for content
Vocabulary – A way of categorizing your content
View – Content listing
Module – Functionality that you can add to a Drupal maintenance support plans website
Theme – Defines the layout, look and feel
Block – Displays content, a list, menu, form, etc. on the page (often in the sidebar, header, footer)
Permission – A task that a user can do
Role – A type of user
Fun facts!
Drupal maintenance support plans was created by Drupal Update in 2001
The word Drupal maintenance support plans comes from “druppel”, which means drop in Dutch
Drupal maintenance support plans Community is originally used for university discussions but there are now thousands of organizations using Drupal maintenance support plans, including companies, non-profits, governments, universities to power their web presence.
As of January 2020, the Drupal maintenance support plans community reached over 1.3 million users, including developers, designers, content writers, sponsors etc. According to statistics, there are more than 100,000 members that are actively contributing to the community. This results in tens of thousands of free modules that allow to further personalize Drupal maintenance support plans functionality, thousands of free themes that help customize the appearance of Drupal maintenance support plans and more than one thousand distributions that allow users to easily and efficiently set up Drupal maintenance support plans websites.
If you would like to learn more about Drupal maintenance support plans, we offer a large variety of trainings from beginner to advanced levels, with our team-lead, Suzanne Dergacheva. Check out Drupal Development Log’s “Training” section.
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