A Content Management System (CMS) is a tool that enables technical and non-technical staff to create, manage and publish text, images and a great variety of other types of media to a website. Content can also be published according to a well-defined set of rules, workflows, and security measures specific to the needs of the organisation.

Without a dedicated and flexible Content Management System, website maintainability is slow, expensive and requires technical knowledge from the author. Websites that are not designed to be maintained by a Content Management System are brittle in design and incur high re-development costs when changes are required. When organisational requirements demand frequent website content updates, these costs very quickly make content changes prohibitively expensive.

With a Drupal-driven web site for instance, content can be managed through a powerful interface that is tightly integrated with the rest of the site. This enables very fast and efficient Content Management capability while also providing robust security. New content can be published and changes are visible immediately. In addition, Drupal’s extensible architecture allows for highly customisable business rules to govern how content is approved, edited and published.

The Drupal Content Management System solves the issue of brittle website design and the requirement of technical knowledge in order to make changes. Drupal turns even highly content-rich and design-specific sites into flexible and manageable media platforms that can be maintained with minimal cost and without the need for web-design knowledge on the part of the author.