Before we jump right into Drupal CMS, perhaps we should start why the market is obsessed with designing websites with CMS.

What is CMS? Why CMS?

"CMS" (Content Management System) is THE hip, trendy term on the Internet in 2010s. As elegantly described in Wikipedia, a Web CMS is basically a system that "simplifies the publication of web content to web sites and mobile devices -- in particular, allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files."

Generally speaking, the rise of CMS is due to the huge success of Blog platforms like blogger.com. Ever since the launch of blogger.com in 1999, next thing I know everyone has started publishing on the Internet, and the volume of new content published online exploded in folds ever since.

With the increasingly popular online marketing concepts like SEO (Search Engine Marketing) and social media marketing, which both dictate that a successful website in 21st century requires a very rapid content creation rate (perhaps we could talk a bit more about these in the future), many individual developers and software companies jumped into developing different versions of CMS to their own likings to serve the market demand, and gradually contributed to the phenomenon growth of CMS products.

Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla And More

Among many CMS available in the market today, the most popular ones are Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla. Interestingly, all three of these CMS are open sourced, which means that they are maintained primarily by individual passionate developers around the world, for free. You may think that this may render the project or it's maintenance unreliable, however surprisingly these CMS products are much more complete and successful compare to it's commercial alternatives like Magento or Compsite. How Open Source work deserves a separate topic, so perhaps we shall leave that to the next blog post.

There are many hot debates about which of these 3 CMS is better over the others. I will leave that conclusion to the enthusiasts, however if you want to look into these CMS in a more practically and funcitonal manner, you may find out more about our methodology on how to choose between Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla for our client projects.

Why is Drupal Our Choice of CMS?

We like Drupal CMS for a lot of reasons:

• Search engine friendly design out of the box
• CCK and Views
• Advance form and theme engines
• Advance user management...

But they are not all.

CMS, or every single software product in the world have one thing in common: they all have very unique personalities. Just like working with people, sometimes wrong match of personality could lead to unfavorable result; on the other hand, the result of your work could be unexpectedly good if you have found the right "partner" with the right "personality", and that's how we feel about Drupal at SourceSquare.

May be you are like us have a different passion toward another CMS? What would be your choice then?