Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. It is used for many different types of websites like, Community web portals, Discussion sites, Corporate web sites, Intranet applications, Personal web sites or blogs, E-commerce applications, Resource directories and Social Networking sites. It comes with a large set of features to enable it to be used for many types of applications.It is, like many modern CMSs, allows the system administrator to create and organize content, customize the presentation, automate administrative tasks, and manage site visitors and contributors.

General features

Collaborative Book:Our unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a “book” and then authorize other individuals to contribute content.

Friendly URLs: Drupal uses Apache’s mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user and search enginefriendly.

Modules: The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality that extend Drupal core.

Role based permission system: Drupal administrators don’t have to tediously setup permissions for each user. Instead, they assign permissions to roles and then group like users into a role group.

Searching :All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all times if you take advantage of the built in search module.

User management

User authentication: Users can register and authenticate locally or using an external authentication source like Jabber, Blogger, Live Journal or another Drupal website. For use on an intranet, Drupal can integrate with an LDAP server.

Content management

Polls rupal comes with a poll module which enables admins and/or users to create polls and show them on variouspages.

Templating rupal’s theme system separates content from presentation allowing you to control the look and feel of your Drupal site. Templates are created from standard HTML and PHP coding meaning that you don’t have to learn a proprietary templating language.

Threaded comments: Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment model for enabling discussion on published content. Comments are hierarchical as in a newsgroup or forum.

Version control rupal’s version control system tracks the details of content updates including who changed it, what was changed, the date and time of changes made to your content and more. Version control features provide an option to keep a comment log and enables you to roll-back content to an earlier version.

Blogging

Blogger API support:The Blogger API allows your Drupal site to be updated by many different tools. This includes non-web browser based tools that provide a richer editing environment.

Content syndication: Drupal exports your site’s content in RDF/RSS format for others to gather. This lets anyone with a News Aggregator browse your Drupal sites feeds.

News aggregator: Drupal has a powerful built-in News Aggregator for reading and blogging news from other sites. The News Aggregator caches articles to your MySQL database and its caching time is user configurable.

Permalinks:All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or “perma link” associated with it so people can link to it freely without fear of broken links.

Administration and Analysis

Analysis, Tracking and Statistics: Drupal can print browser-based reports with information about referrals, content popularity and how visitors navigate your site.

Logging and Reporting: All important activities and system events are captured in an event log to be reviewed by an administrator at a later time.

Web based administration rupal can be administered entirely using a web browser, making it possible to access it from around the world and requires no additional software to be installed on your computer.

Content syndication: Drupal exports your site’s content in RDF/RSS format for others to gather. This lets anyone with a News Aggregator browse your Drupal sites feeds.

News aggregator: Drupal has a powerful built-in News Aggregator for reading and blogging news from other sites. The News Aggregator caches articles to your MySQL database and its caching time is user configurable.

Permalinks:All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or “perma link” associated with it so people can link to it freely without fear of broken links.

Administration and Analysis

Analysis, Tracking and Statistics: Drupal can print browser-based reports with information about referrals, content popularity and how visitors navigate your site.

Logging and Reporting: All important activities and system events are captured in an event log to be reviewed by an administrator at a later time.

Web based administration rupal can be administered entirely using a web browser, making it possible to access it from around the world and requires no additional software to be installed on your computer.

Community features

Discussion forums:Full discussion forum features are built into Drupal to create lively, dynamic community sites.

Performance and scalability

Caching: The caching mechanism eliminates database queries increasing performance and reducing the server’s load. Not only can the caching be tuned in real time, while your site is under load, but it has been successfully tested under a “slashdotting” and performed extremely well.

Suma software will support all these feature like

1. Visual design and planning.
2. Functional design and planning.
3. Establishing standards and naming conventions.
4. Setting up the Layout of our theme.
5. Setting up the basic configuration and the structure of the information.
6. Create custom functionality as needed.
7. Create theme templates for individual elements
8. Visual and functional details for better usability.
9. Performance improvements.

General features
Collaborative Book :Our unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a “book” and then authorize other individuals to contribute content.

Friendly URLs: Drupal uses Apache’s mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user and search enginefriendly.

Modules: The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality that extend Drupal core.

Role based permission system: Drupal administrators don’t have to tediously setup permissions for each user. Instead, they assign permissions to roles and then group like users into a role group.

Searching :All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all times if you take advantage of the built in search module.

User management
User authentication: Users can register and authenticate locally or using an external authentication source like Jabber, Blogger, Live Journal or another Drupal website. For use on an intranet, Drupal can integrate with an LDAP server.

Content management
Polls:Drupal comes with a poll module which enables admins and/or users to create polls and show them on variouspages.

Templating:Drupal’s theme system separates content from presentation allowing you to control the look and feel of your Drupal site. Templates are created from standard HTML and PHP coding meaning that you don’t have to learn a proprietary templating language.

Threaded comments: Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment model for enabling discussion on published content. Comments are hierarchical as in a newsgroup or forum.

Version control:Drupal’s version control system tracks the details of content updates including who changed it, what was changed, the date and time of changes made to your content and more. Version control features provide an option to keep a comment log and enables you to roll-back content to an earlier version.

Blogging
Blogger API support:The Blogger API allows your Drupal site to be updated by many different tools. This includes non-web browser based tools that provide a richer editing environment.

Content syndication: Drupal exports your site’s content in RDF/RSS format for others to gather. This lets anyone with a News Aggregator browse your Drupal sites feeds.

News aggregator: Drupal has a powerful built-in News Aggregator for reading and blogging news from other sites. The News Aggregator caches articles to your MySQL database and its caching time is user configurable.

Permalinks:All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or “perma link” associated with it so people can link to it freely without fear of broken links.

Administration and Analysis
Analysis, Tracking and Statistics: Drupal can print browser-based reports with information about referrals, content popularity and how visitors navigate your site.

Logging and Reporting: All important activities and system events are captured in an event log to be reviewed by an administrator at a later time.

Web based administration:Drupal can be administered entirely using a web browser, making it possible to access it from around the world and requires no additional software to be installed on your computer.

Community features
Discussion forums:Full discussion forum features are built into Drupal to create lively, dynamic community sites.

Performance and scalability
Caching: The caching mechanism eliminates database queries increasing performance and reducing the server’s load. Not only can the caching be tuned in real time, while your site is under load, but it has been successfully tested under a “slashdotting” and performed extremely well.

Suma software will support all these feature like
1.Visual design and planning.
2.Functional design and planning.
3.Establishing standards and naming conventions.
4.Setting up the Layout of our theme.
5.Setting up the basic configuration and the structure of the information.
6.Create custom functionality as needed.
7.Create theme templates for individual elements
8.Visual and functional details for better usability.
9.Performance improvements.