Drupal is an open source, online community platform developed to handle a variety of functional needs ranging from publications, to user generated content, to social networking, to e-commerce and more. Highly modular, Drupal allows site administrators to add functionality without extensive rewriting of code.

Trellon has standardized on the Drupal platform and provides development and consulting services. Our core strengths lie in delivering high volume, feature rich Drupal sites on tight timeframes, often integrated with 3rd party solutions. We know the platform inside and out and can help your organization to move onto the platform quickly and effectively.

Features

Content Management

• Publish information in a variety of pre-defined formats including static web pages, blogs, forums, and other forms of user generated content.
• Collect qualitative information from users in the form of comments and votes on any content item.
• Define custom content types through a web based interface designed to maximize the flexibility of the platform.
• Present highly segmented lists of data in multiple formats using views.
• Capture entry using rich text editors that function like word processing programs.

Modular Architecture

• Extend the use of the core platform with the implementation of thousands of custom modules.
• Implement new functionality without needing to make changes to the core platform (which simplifies the process of upgrading to new versions of the application).
• Thousands of custom modules have been published for the most recent version of Drupal.

Usre Generated Media and Social Networking

• User generated media features allow users to build the content of your site.
• Buddylists allow users to build relationships online.
• Contact forms enable users to communicate through personal messages using your site as the medium.
• Organic groups create opportunities for users to self organize according to their interests.
• Personalized home pages express the individual character of the users in your online community.

Ecommerce

• Shopping cart features allow users to participate in shopping sessions.
• Catalogs list products available for purchase on your site and can be highly customized to meet specific presentation and workflow needs.
• Transaction processing can be enabled with use of a payment gateway and merchant account.
• Invoices and inventory management enable businesses to conduct their operations online to reduce overhead and provide better customer support.

Security

• Integrated user account management allows administrators to control what their users are able to do.
• Configurable user roles allow for batch administration of users.
• Modular framework includes integrated security system that reduces the work involved in implementing new features or building new modules.

Scalability

• Drupal is capable of over 1 million page views an hour when properly configured (out of the box performance is considerably lower).
• Memcache technology can extend the platform to handle even more traffic.
• Integrates well with most CDNs (Akamai has dedicated Drupal experts on staff and ready to advise on specific implementation questions).

This list of features only scratches the surface. For a full list of features about Drupal, including handbooks and downloads, please visit http://www.drupal.org.