No one Reads about Drupal?

I did an article about Drupal recently. My goal was to get some writer’s together to share what we know with each other. I failed miserably at that, but I thought I’d share my article anyway. This is one of my worst performing babies on the list. It needs some love.

Funny, though, my article on Chronic Pain has been my blockbuster hit as far as AC is concerned and that was PvB only. How funny! I would write a decent one along the same lines and submit for upfront, but it’s starting to look like AC doesn’t want to pay upfront anymore. That sucks.

Recently I decided to develop a community driven website. This just means that members/users of my website will be able to produce content, vote on content/polls and make site decisions. I decided to use a Content Management System (CMS) to keep things easy and, since I’m on a budget, it had to be affordable. After test driving several, I decided to go with Drupal.

What is Drupal?

Drupal is an open source web content management system, which means that it’s a completely free way to set up and manage your web site. That fit perfectly into my budget. The only expense then is the price of hosting. Drupal runs with PHP programming, so it’s important to make sure the web host you choose is reliable and offers plenty of Mysql database space as well as storage space. Drupal uses quite a bit of space for its core functionality and you’re probably going to use more for adding on modules and themes. Modules are extrasthat are added onto the core to increase functionality. Themes are just “skins” that change the look of the site.

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