Drupal 6.x

Well I must say, I have only been using Drupal properly for the best part of 3 months now and I love it!

Drupal is an Open Source platform used for many different sites but mainly for community based sites.  Before Drupal I could make a basic site, but nothing special.  Now using Drupal I have a fully fledged site with a small but growing community.


Why do I prefer Drupal over other CMS's?
I have used many different system such as Joomla, Plume, Elgg and Dolphin and as great as they are I also found myself going back to Drupal.  This is mainly because it is amazingly easy to maintain/administer and everything is laid out as you would expect it.

Drupals community is also very dedicated, if I need any help to do with Drupal I will post and small description and add anything else that may be relevant and within normally around 12 hours I have a helpful reply, this is where I would normally have problems with the other CMS's not because they wasn't friendly but because with some problems for example the layout of a certain page, it required a lot of work to get it done and installing some module that you were only going to use that once.

Drupal after installation is a simple template, it has a very basic navigation bar.  So basically when you first install Drupal you have web page of sorts, not a very elaborate or big web page but a basic one.  Expanding a Drupal site is easy, to add a feature to Drupal (for arguments sake we shall add a blogging feature) this would require you to access the admin page, goto modules and click to box next to "Blog" when you have saved your setting you will have an option in the navigation to submit a story to your blog.  It's that simple.

To further expand your site, with options that are not baked into Drupal you have to download and install modules, these can be found on the Drupal site, there are thousands of modules to choose from and vary from adding features such as a "Gallery" for each user complete with albums, to features like advanced CAPTCHA.


Who would I recommend Drupal to?
I would recommend Drupal to anyone seeking a personal or a professional level site with maximum customization and excellent usability. Drupal really is for anyone whether they have a very good knowledge to web developing or very little knowledge, but I can guarantee that the latter will learn a lot during their time with Drupal. 

So to sum up, if your looking for a powerful foundation for your web page then Drupal is probably the best your going to get.  However if you are considering switching to Drupal I would recommend reading a bit about it here.