[You'll change this but it's a start; Always begin a feature list with a product overview.  Bear in mind that users will print something and take it with them to read.  This type of document needs to stand alone]

Drupal is a powerful platform for building web community applications. With integral features such as a multiple user blog engine, discussion forums, RSS support, polls, X, Y, Z and more.  In short, Drupal provides a solution for all your community needs.  Drupal, now that it has reached version 4.x status, is a very full featured product.  Listed below are some of Drupal's key features.  Use the "more information" links to get further details.

• Display and Themes (each of these would be hyperlinked to the sections below)
• Security
• Blogging

Content Management

Templating

Drupal's theme system separates content from its presentation making it possible to control the look and feel of your Drupal site.The

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User management

Administer your users using a web interface, use user roles, user permissions and access rules to control their access and capabilities.

We know that you may have started with one of those other community platforms (nuke, anyone?) so we made it easy to bring your Nuke content directly into Drupal. By just dumping your Nuke database and then making a few small changes, you can use your existing content with Drupal.

[ not sure if this is still true but isn't your db structure still the same?]

Community Features

Powerful multiple user, multiple blog support available with every copy of Drupal.

RSS Support

Fully integrated, web based News Aggregator for reading feeds.

Drupal is multi-platform software that is easy to deploy on either Apache or Microsoft IIS webserver.

Database independent

While many of our users run Drupal with MySQL, we knew that MySQL wasn't the solution for everyone. Drupal is built on top of a database abstraction layer that allows Drupal with MySQL, PostgreSQL and other SQL databases.

Caching

Drupal's caching mechanism improves performance by eliminating database queries. This dramatically improves performance by reducing the server load.

Multi-language

Drupal is designed to meet the requirements of an international audience and provides a framework to setup a multi-lingual website. All text can be translated using a graphical user interface, by importing existing translations, or by integrating with other translation tools such as gettext.

Open source

The source code of Drupal is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Custom content types

Version control

Drupal's version control system tracks the date and time of changes made to your content, provides an option to keep a comment log, and enables you to roll-back to an earlier version.

Content syndication

Drupal exports your site's content in RDF/RSS format for others to gather. Furthermore, you can subscribe to other news sites and have their news delivered to you; Drupal will act as a news aggregator integrating syndicated content in your website.

Environment Features (not sure about this heading)

Personalization

To provide users a customized experience, both the content and its presentation can be individualized based on user-definied preferences.

Drupal can be administered entirely using a web browser, making it possible to access it from around the world and requires no additional software to be installed on your computer.

Reporting

All important activities and system events are captured in a log to be reviewed by an authorized individual at a later time.

Statistics

Drupal can print browser-based reports with information about referrals, content popularity, and the navigational behavior of your visitors.

-----Original Message-----

From: Dries Buytaert [mailto:dries@buytaert.net]

Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 5:06 AM

To: J. Scott Johnson

Subject: Re: Confidential

Hey Scott,

> Just a heads up that I'm trying to pitch Drupal as the back end for the new

> PHP Journal (same folks as phpcon) web site. Please keep this off list as

> it's too early to say but I worked very hard on getting a relationship built

> with them out in San Francisco last week. I think that this would be very

> good for Drupal and I may ask some dumb questions in the near term based on

> their interest.

I just added some more feature to the feature list at

http://drupal.org/node.php?id=2. It is just a start; there is many more

items to add but I wonder if you could help with the wording/formulation

such that (a) it is correct/quality English and (b) it "sells". ;-)

Of course, you don't have to help but I figured I would ask as I'm sure

the Drupal project could greatly benefit from your experience.

I'm going to add a "screenshots"-link later on, as well as worry about the

presentation as soon I have an idea of what exactly will be on that page.

Thanks,

--

Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/