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What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) based on PHP & MySQL platform. It is affordable and user-friendly for everyone, from nonprofit to large companies.  It allows an individual, community or small business to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal can be used to create:

    * Community web portals
    * Discussion sites
    * Small business sites
    * E-commerce

What is CMS?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a software tool for managing content that allows the content to be stored, revised, and published quickly and effectively for a Web site.  It separates the content from the technical details. This makes it owner friendly in that one do not have to be concern with the technical details but can focus on the content. The content or data can be defined as almost anything - documents, movies, pictures, news, articles, events, etc. CMS's a Drupal is consider an award winning content management system that is affordable and user-friendly.

What is Open Source software?

Open Source software (OSS) is computer software for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that meets the Open Source Definition or that is the  public domain.  This allows user to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified forms.  It is often developed in a very public or community collaborated manner.

What is SEO?

SEO stands for Search Engine optimization. SEO is designing a Web site so that search engines find the pages easily and index them.  The process is to improve the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines by having a page rank as high up on the results list as possible, or be on the first results page. Typically, the earlier or higher a site appears in the search result list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine.