The name Drupal is Dutch for ‘droplet’, hence the water droplet icon found on hundreds of websites. Behind that icon is a content management system that has evolved over the years from a basic content management system into what has been called a “Swiss-army knife of web software”. As that statement might lead you to think, Drupal does have a reputation for having a steep learning curve, but probably not that much more than other content management systems become when you step outside the defaults.

Like many such systems it employs some kind of system of blocks of content that are More >