The iSite Essentials CMS is a free open source Content Management System designed to enable organizations to build the ultimate Web 2.0 website. It is an extended distribution of the world’s most popular advanced open source CMS, Drupal. (If you are familiar with Drupal, you may want to click here to learn how iSE extends Drupal.)
What is a Content Management System?
A CMS is a web application that enables you to better manage your website’s content and features. It enables non-technical people to create and edit web pages using just a web browser. It also enables advanced website features such as form processing, commenting, ratings and social media hooks.
What is Drupal?
Drupal is a powerful enterprise class content management system. It uses a highly modular framework to empower people to build a wide variety of websites from basic business sites to large social media sites.
What kinds of websites can Drupal build?
Drupal's framework approach can be used to create virtually any kind of website.
For example:
- Traditional corporate websites (brochure ware)
- Corporate portals & knowledge bases
- Intranets & extranets
- Non-profit and organizational sites
- Social media sites
- Publishing portals (online magazines)
- Church & school websites
- Personal sites and blogs
Who is using Drupal
Drupal is used by small business to the Fortune 500.
Examples of Drupal based websites:
- Sony BMG
- Fast Company
- Popular Science
- AOL
- Warner Bros.
- Nokia
- Symantec
- Disney
- United Nations
- SUN Microsystems
- FedEX
- Amnesty International
What is the iSite Essentials
The LevelTen iSite Essentials (iSE) is extended distribution of Drupal designed for building enterprise-class Web 2.0 style websites. It comes in a single download that includes Drupal core, over 60 contributed modules, and several additional custom modules in a pre-configured installation profile.
The primary purpose of Essentials is to make the true power of Drupal accessible to all. It is ideal for websites that need a brochure ware section and want to integrate Web 2.0 portal features. It is our hope that the iSE distribution will greatly shorten the Drupal learning curve and guide people towards deploying enhanced interactive websites.
You can experience iSE via the Office Bobbles demo. (Use un:admin, pw:admin to login).
