What Are the Features of this New Drupal Web Site?
This new site is configured using Drupal - an open source content management platform.
- Free Open Source Support. By going this route, we aren't locking ourselves into expensive licensing of proprietary server-side software, which includes operating systems, web server software, database software and development languages, etc..
- Automatic Database Backups. On the web server, we have set up this site to perform automatic MySQL database backups.
- Web Site Security. Although public access to this web site is available and encouraged, we also now have the ability to administer user profiles and user management based on established user roles. These include authenticated users, editorial board users, and administrators.
- Web Site Highly Configurable. We have dynamic control of menus, blocks (the regions to the left and right side of the main body of the screen), topic categorization, etc..
- Specialized Content Types. Although there is nearly limitless possibilities with types of content, we have initially set up content types for publishing Podcasts / RSS feeds, Stories, Pages, Life Sketches, and online Books.
- Hundreds of Add-on Modules Available. The following list is a sample of what we have enabled for this web site.
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization) by major Internet search engines.
- SpamSpan: A module which obfuscates email addresses to help prevent spambots from collecting them.
- Backup and Migrate: A utility for backing up or migrating the Drupal Database quickly and without unnecessary data.
- Checkout and Diff: Allows users to lock documents for modification and shows the difference between revisions.
- FCKeditor: Enables the usage of a WYSIWYG web site editor. It allows insertion of HTML code from authoring tools like Adobe Dreamweaver.
- Image File Uploader and Browser Support
- Automatic URL path generator for creating aliases for web site content.
