Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power an endless variety of web sites, including

1. Community web portals
2. Discussion sites
3. Corporate web sites
4. Intranet applications
5. Personal web sites or blogs
6. Aficionado sites
7. E-commerce applications
8. Resource directories
9. Social Networking sites

Build-in functionality

The built-in functionality, combined with thousands of freely available add-on modules, enables features such as:

• Electronic commerce
• Blogs
• Collaborative authoring environments
• Forums
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Newsletters
• Podcasting
• Picture galleries
• File uploads and downloads

and much more.

Open-source software

Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.