Drupal first impressions

Drupal

As of 2009 Drupal is one of the leading opensource CMS on the web.
Others worth mention would be Joomla and WordPress.

There are two ways actually to create a Drupal based web page. 


Easy way. No programming skills required. Download drupal from the drupal.org. Extract contents onto your server public_html directory. Launch www.yourdomain.com/install.php and follow the instructions provided. After installation successfully completes: the following things can be performed
- Adding a content to web site
- Installing additional modules, wich can be downloaded from drupal module download page
- Choose from existing themes from drupal theme page

Advanced way
At heart drupal contains a very a flexible module system. Module system not only provides scaleability, but also code reusability and structured manner into which the whole system is developed. And because developers share their modules, it really speeds up web site development. Because it's like code reusing among whole community. Code sharing also improves developers coding skills. 
To create a module, developer must follow Drupal api. API documentation is pretty stright forward and well explained. 

It's really worth dive into.

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