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Upgrade to Drupal 7 for Resourceful CMS Website Solutions To have improved website performances, it is always suggested to use open source content management systems (CMS). This provides administrators with lot of leverages to organize, update, edit or manage data and do lot many things to keep the up-to-date information on the website. Websites development is embedded with many technologies; Drupal is one of the efficient platforms to build vigorous and advanced content management system for the clients. This platform has the big community of expert Drupal professionals who constantly develops and provides new scale to the technology. The technology is highly administrative friendly that enables to handle and administer various types of websites even when the expertise on the open source content management system is less. The Drupal community has been rapidly growing since the first release to current Drupal 7. The release 7 is equipped to serve several databases such as SQLite 3.x+, MariaDB 5.1.44+, PostgreSQL 8.3+ and MySQL 5.0.15+. Providing advanced control and suppleness to website owners has reinvigorated numerous businesses to drift or upgrade to the newest major version of the technology. Every client is engaged in different mode of business. This requires the flexibility of CMS website to be customized as per the market demands and competitions. Businesses expecting to upgrade or migrate to the said technology, should know the benefits before accepting the latest version of the technology. This provides an extra edge to development of a content management system or upgrade over competitors. Always keep in mind; the latest technology is the enterprise version that will add branding to the business and to its solutions. It would be nice to know the benefits availed from Drupal 7 release, which is developed to improve the website performance. The features associated to improve the website performance are:

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Upgrade to Drupal 7 for Resourceful CMS Website Solutions

To have improved website performances, it is always suggested to use open source content management systems (CMS). This provides administrators with lot of leverages to organize, update, edit or manage data and do lot many things to keep the up-to-date information on the website.

Websites development is embedded with many technologies; Drupal is one of the efficient platforms to build vigorous and advanced content management system for the clients. This platform has the big community of expert Drupal professionals who constantly develops and provides new scale to the technology. The technology is highly administrative friendly that enables to handle and administer various types of websites even when the expertise on the open source content management system is less. The Drupal community has been rapidly growing since the first release to current Drupal 7. The release 7 is equipped to serve several databases such as SQLite 3.x+, MariaDB 5.1.44+, PostgreSQL 8.3+ and MySQL 5.0.15+. Providing advanced control and suppleness to website owners has reinvigorated numerous businesses to drift or upgrade to the newest major version of the technology.

Every client is engaged in different mode of business. This requires the flexibility of CMS website to be customized as per the market demands and competitions. Businesses expecting to upgrade or migrate to the said technology, should know the benefits before accepting the latest version of the technology. This provides an extra edge to development of a content management system or upgrade over competitors. Always keep in mind; the latest technology is the enterprise version that will add branding to the business and to its solutions.

It would be nice to know the benefits availed from Drupal 7 release, which is developed to improve the website performance. The features associated to improve the website performance are:

• Multiple Language Support • Easy Website Management• Database Support• Better Administration Features• SEO-friendly URLs

Besides the mentioned solutions and features, there are other ways to improve the performance of the CMS website using Drupal expert. To have the better understanding, only seven features have been chosen to explain the Drupal 7 release advantages. The points are mentioned below:

1. Enhanced UI: A powerful drag-and-drop interface to add content, review comments, existing content etc.

2. Tractability: Higher flexibility allows administrator to develop custom content structure.

3. Quality Approach: The new version is capable of managing large amount of data runs on PHP 5.2.5 or higher.

4. Advanced Themes: The default theme allows customizing colors and CMS style settings to configure administration pages.

5. Improved Security: The enhanced security features provides secure log-in system.

6. Image Management: It has custom image styles, crop and scale images supported by add-on image libraries.

7. Usability: It provides better support to integrate WYSIWYG editors, modules, functionality and flexibility to users.

All these advanced features of Drupal 7 provide sufficient explanations to upgrade content management system with the new release. Thus, new business or exiting ones which are looking for cost effective solutions to proceed with excellent CMS solution, must opt for the latest version to sustain in a competitive landscape.