Friendly and Powerful: Drupal 7

With the release of Drupal 7 earlier this year, Drupal has become even more powerful and easier to use. This means that your Drupal website or application can do more, faster, and you too are able to do more, faster with the much-improved user interface.

The user interface of Drupal has been given a complete overhaul. Notable features include a reorganised administration menu system, customisable dashboards and shortcut bars, and improved module management interfaces. In addition, Drupal 7 uses the concept of overlays, that allow you to access the administration interface instantly, from wherever you happen to be in the website. But once you are finished, closing the overlay takes you right back to where you were. Managing your website in Drupal is easier than ever.

In addition to usability improvements, Drupal 7 brings semantic web support to Drupal by implementing the RDFa specification for XHTML. By adding additional information to HTML markup, RDFa allows machines to extract richer, more meaningful data from your website content. This means that search engines are able to extract more relevant information from your websites and allows you to create mashups and web services. In short, with RDFa, your website content becomes richer and easier to find.

Drupal 7 is already being used in very high profile websites like examiner.com and Chicago Public Media.

Contact OPC today to find out how Drupal 7 can make your website faster and easier to use.