TOP TOOLS 2008
Drupal / DrupalEd
Equipped with a powerful blend of features,
Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging
from personal weblogs to large community-driven
websites.
DrupalEd is a flexible
framework to set up a social learning environment or a more
traditional learning environment
| Website |
Drupal:
www.drupal.org
|
DrupalEd:
www.drupaled.org |
| Cost |
Free |
| Availability |
Download |
|
Platform |
Any platform that can support (1)
a web sever capable of running PHP and (2) a
database to store content and settings |
|
2007 ranking |
72= |
|
2008 ranking |
54= |
Comments from those who selected Drupal or
DrupalEd as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008
- "I've been using Drupal for a number of years, and find
it to be the most flexible platform for
the developmen of web applications. It has a steeper
learning curve than some of it's competitors, but you're
repaid many times over by the speed with which you can
develop sophisticated sites. It's what I used to build The
eLearning Network website."
Barry Sampson
- "Drupal is a 'quick' way to create
websites with lots of features without needing
to know any programming (though it does help, as
for the other open source apps if you know some
php and css). It's getting more features all the
time, and again, a helpful user community is out
there. Whe I think how many weeks it took to
create a website lie Kids on the Net (www.kidsnthenet.com)
years ago with Coldfusion and Access, Drupal
could do the same thing in a matter of a few days' work"
Helen Whitehead
- "use for blog, other bibliography, and writing
papers/book chapters"
Pat Parslow
- "My online life is centered around a
Drupal installation. It is my blogging
platform, as well as the content management
system which houses my important online
artifacts."
Jennifer Maddrell
Comments from those who selected Drupal or
DrupalEd as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007
- "This is an awesome open source
CMS that can have any low level wannabe web designer
building functional sites with nifty features in no
time. The DrupalEd
community has
created an install
that includes all of
the modules for a
great educational
site in ONE simple
install saving you
many, many hours"
Brent
Schlenker
- "A wonderful system for building up
community-based platforms. I use it on my own and for
e-learning projects."
Tim
Schlotfeldt
- " free - the most capable free
content management system"
Cary Gordon
