You may ask why you should use Drupal when other CMS like WordPress, Joomla and many other seem to do equally well and have earned quite name as established content management systems. If you are, too, thinking why drupal, before going into any  details must keep in mind that the world’s leading organizations like the UN, Forbes, the Discovery Channel, AOL, Warner Brothers Records and even Yahoo are using Drupal websites. And it indicates that it has something which makes it a preferable tool for the world’s leading organizations.

Many drupal experts say that Drupal can be the best pick for those who want to develop some SEO-based website development projects. As it allows you to get precise control over your website URL structure and you can find the same in Wordpress and you are bound to one kind of permalink URL for all your posts.

Similarly, with the available Views Modules and CCK or Conten Construction Kit, you are able to develop new types of content and you need not writing some code to develop some advanced custom views for them.

Drupal can be configured in a way that it can save the new version of your pages whenever you edit them. So it’s easy to view or revert to the revisions whenever you want to.

You can also easily organize and tag your content with its robustly powerful category system. It has strong user access control functionality and thus offers complete control over your website users. Similarly, with its page title module, you can get custom control of your HTML elements and you can also get a better control over your web pages with the given Meta tags module. In other content management systems, this functionality is bit perplexing, but you will find it quite easier in Drupal. Apart from these features, Drupal has loads of other impressive features and functions that make it a must have content management system for your website.

It’s great for the power users who can build an understanding of how site building in Drupal works, but Drupal Gardens puts this in the hands of less technical end users. It provides an easy path to creating the site, then choosing a theme (either provided or one you create on your own), color schemes, fonts and so forth.

Of course, you can control all of these elements in the Drupal design process regardless of whether you are using a front-end tool or not, but Drupal Gardens makes it relatively easy to build sites and choose site elements within a framework. Acquia believes giving users this flexibility will make it more likely that companies will choose Drupal.

Capozzi says that it will also help companies build marketing campaigns much more quickly:

“There are so many applications of Drupal Gardens I’m anxious to see incorporated into marketing campaigns, but one I believe will really excite my fellow marketers is the ability to quickly and easily create slick, feature-rich microsites for a campaign. Marketers are focused on building targeted audiences and social communities and so many of them see microsites as the primary launching pad for brand and loyalty building.”

We will see how well this tool works for this purpose, but it does clearly put Drupal site design within reach of a much broader set of users. The product is currently in private beta.

Read more: http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/acquia-tries-mainstream-drupal-drupal-gardens/2010-02-24#ixzz0gcL3yEof