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Drupal has been in development for over 10 years, with millions of downloads, and hundreds of thousands of successful sites. It is a completely free, open source content management system that many intelligent companies are using today to provide for their needs. Drupal's many features and add-ons allow it to be used for a variety of website needs; perhaps for marketing, internal communications, informational websites, or for social networking purposes. If a needed feature is not currently available, it has a proven community of developers who can be paid to do the work for you.

A brief guide on how to make yourself more productive by using the command line to install Drupal on a server: either a local, development or live system.

I thought I'd written my last bit of code over 10 years ago, but here I am struggling with all this new-fangled technology and inevitably tweaking module code that makes up the great Drupal open source empire.
A quick way to generate a patch for a module you want to tweak is using Drush and Git.

1. Download the module to your test environment with Drush. FFS don't do code development on a live site - kittens will die and you might (quite rightly) lose your job.
drush dl [module-name]

There are 3 main ways people are going to visit your website:

The term 'app' is thrown around a lot: it's in the news a lot and we are constantly prompted to 'download our app' on websites. An app is application software, which delivers a specific set of functions; the most visible apps are the mobile applications commonly used on smartphones and tablets.

There are two types of apps you will encounter:

• Web apps
• Native Apps

Each have their own merits, but it's important to understand the distinction between the two.