There is a lot of talk here lately about how all these places are switching over to WordPress to run the back end of their Web sites. WordPress is not the only pretty girl at the dance though. Another nice content management system that is out there is Drupal.

Everything you could want to know about Drupal can be found at Drupal.org. It is free to use, and there are so many different ways you can use it. Here is a little more about the project from the developers:

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a Web site. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different Web sites. Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. It even has an easy-to-use Web installer! The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features.

Now Drupal is not just for your random generic Web site. It can be used for podcasting, picture galleries, peer to peer networking, forums, blogs, and more. You can create just about any Web site you could dream of with a system set up with Drupal.

So the next time you want to start up a new Web site, but you are not sure what you want to use to run it - Give Drupal a shot. I am willing to bet you will find more time to create and less time to worry about coding the back end.

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