Drupal is an open source content management system, one of the best of its kind in the world (1. prize in the Open Source CMS Award in the years 2007-2009). The popularity of Drupal is increasing, among other reasons, thanks to its security and flexibility. The modularity enables every user to select and put together particular functions like a building kit. So neither the website nor its administrator has the worry of a tangle of redundant functions. The author of Drupal is the Belgian programmer Dries Buytaert. He created the first version while still a student, in the form of a university electronic "bulletin board". The first Drupal website arose from it in time, and subsequently the system, in whose development several hundred people from all over the world are taking part. Every month Drupal is downloaded by approximately 70 thousand users; Google registers about 30 million websites based on this content management system
A content management system (CMS) enables the administration and editing of website content without programming knowledge. Creation of the content is managed online by means of a user interface – web form (similarly, as if you, e. g., are entering data in an e-shop). The settings of functions, layout of individual elements on the site, etc., are done in the same way.
