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Managing content with Drupal

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Managing content with Drupal

Drupal is one of a class of software called web content management systems, or CMSes for short. The best way to understand what Drupal does, and how it's different from other CMSes out there, is to look at the field as a whole. We'll also look at how Drupal specifically handles content while we build this site, Two Trees Olive Oil. But first let's talk about CMSes generally. A CMS has several characteristics. First of all, it's multiuser: That is, you could sign in as the administrator, and you could give permissions to other people to create content and do other administrative tasks. Or you could have it just yourself as the administrator if you prefer. It has multiple permission levels to allow that. For example, on a newspaper site, you might have editors, writers, and publishers; while on a sales site, there is a manager, data-entry person, and order-fulfillment-person. Meanwhile for a design firm, there are designers, coders, and project managers. A CMS treats content as…

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