I've been wondering exactly what paradigm shift would be responsible for taking website development to the next level and Drupal has answered that question with cutting edge modular program design and development using Open Source code! Because it's open source, and because the initial code was so well written, Drupal stands to profoundly impact the course of website development in the near future...

What Is It?

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 website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate web sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal web sites or blogs
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce applications
• Resource directories
• Social Networking sites _¹

What does all this mean?  It just means that the Drupal Community which consists of volunteer programmers and designers throughout the world work together to create and maintain website software that is highly modular, efficient, and always improving! So, if you have something that you would like for your website to be able to do, chances are really good that Drupal can already do it and if it can't, chances are even greater that Drupal will be able to do it sooner or later!