Drupal is the most popular open source CMS on the market today, which essentially means that it is developed by volunteers who leave the freely available source code. Drupal is used daily by many people and communities to manage their Web sites.

That’s because you can make a very diverse range of Web applications:

- Institutional sites (the universities of Harvard, the Government of Belgium, some sites NASA)

- Portals and community of any size (Amnesty International)

- Intranet sites

- Blog, blog multiuser (blog of Tim Berners-Lee)

- Directory content (MTV)

- E-commerce (Warner Brothers Records)

- Digg.com clones, emulates the youtube and flickr.

- If Drupal was found the optimal choice for these Web sites, is also likely to meet our needs. With this guide we put the foundation to deepen their knowledge of Drupal and realize what we have in mind.

Why use Drupal

Drupal is a CMS Open Source more efficient and flexible available. With the latest versions 6.x, have improved many things, such as the installation: if the first change was necessary to hand the configuration files, now you can easily install everything, with a wizard, directly online.

Significant improvements were made through careful analysis of usability and the consequent improvement of the administration, which now has advanced controls that allow us, for example, to design the layout of the blocks through drag and drop.

The community, which has made it possible to achieve these results, counts a number of developers, testers and users, providing constantly new ideas and products – often for free – in order to achieve the most varied features.

Ultimately Drupal offers stability, security and performance, and apparently has worked very well on ease of use.

History

Drupal’s history began in 2000 between the desks of the University of Antwer. At the university did not provide free access to the Internet for students, so Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder decided to install a wireless router to connect ADSL to share the connection.

However, there was no system for sharing files and information, so Dries created a small interactive site that allowed students to send notes and useful to everyone. After university, the group of students decided to publish the site on the Internet, so that they could continue to communicate, so drop.org was born.

Once published on the Web, users of the site increased and members began talking about authentication, moderation, rating, as syndication and implement them on the site.

In 2001 Dries decided to release the software behind drop.org with the name of Drupal and open source license to allow others to use and extend the system.

Drupal CMS is a very powerful, but also a project that size and complexity, can intimidate the beginning. Following through and through the main theme of this guide to learn some ‘entire infrastructure, a Web site. Above all, remember that the experience is the greatest teacher: The more time passes trying to set up the site, the more we go between the secrets of Drupal and they include power and flexibility.

Drupal awarded 2008 Best CMS

As we all see that everyone in the industry has made Web 2.0 their favorite buzzword for technology today. But now when we are on the cutting edge of Internet competition and as technology moves forward we soon be hitting with a whole new bubble of Web 3.0. This new Web 3.0 might turn the Internet into a huge database and our place in it will be to organize this source of information into parts that are suitable to us.
It entirely would depend on how we will make use of this new web to make search for information much easier, it can be our guide to the future of Internet technology. I’m not the only one to speculate about Web 3.0, but the companies and some famous bloggers also give a sneak peak at what the Internet’s future has to offer.
A lot of you who are reading this are bloggers, you might be interested to know about this shift from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 change in the technology. In this post I want to discuss about what do you want to see in the coming Web Technology that we might have missed in the existing.

Searching Information
Today Web uses keywords to collect data into usable amount. Search Engines index the Internet en masse and present it to the end user in order of significance. They settle on relevance by using complicated algorithms. But Web 2.0 changed the basic way we searched. With introduction of tags users could describe anything as anything and search for items in a manner people look at it.
Web 3.0 will take this one step further. If you are searching for information on Mobile phones, for example, you would use the search engine as you normally would, but your results would be more specialized sub engines. I would find Nokia Search or Motorola Search. From there, I would be able to dig deeper and find items that have been tagged as relating to Nokia and sort them into their major categories (pictures, videos, blog posts, news articles, commerce etc…) Each of these could be captured as an RSS feed so that I can be alerted when something new is added to by search profile.

The engines will order these items in a new way combining the old and the new web. The strong tags that are used currently by these engines would be carried further but some importance would be given to that are flagged by communities as interests and votes.

Searching Validation
There will be a whole new approach to information, example if im looking for news on a particular item instead of information, my search will definitely be slightly different. Along with the specialized search engines, People Search would be available. One could type what they looking for like “Conservative viewpoint on Indian Nuclear Deal” for example and it would pull up results ordered by relevance (algorithms), tagging, and validation through user voting.

Searching Entertainment
Stumble Upon may be the closest comparison to how we will be entertained in Web 3.0. You fill out a profile, define your tags and then flip the channel. It will be a lot like services like Swicki as well, where you can interact with the content that you are seeing and generate communities around it.
Example: Swicki, StumbleUpon, Joost

Search for People (Social Networks)
Can you imagine a technology where you look for a friend and the search shows all the networks he/she is a part of and produce a feed around them. Wow! I can see the word social networks completely changed into “People Search”. If I put a proper name into the search engine of Web 3.0 it would provide the running profile of my presence on the web; it would show everything in the webosphere that has been tagged as belonging to me, ordered by community validation and relevance.
Example: Explode, Spock, The Gorb, Orangeply.

E-Commerce
The entire advertising setting will change, as companies do their best to target the niche audiences produced by the inclusion of People Search and very specific subengines. Contextual advertisement will take second seat to product placements on sites, search results and subengines relating to the messages that companies are trying to get out.
Example: MySpace

These were all the basic changes that might take place in the shift of Web. I would like to continue talking about it in my next blog on Web 3.0 Designs. There is a lot more exercise in understanding how people will naturally take this transformation and we will discuss it further in my coming blogs.

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